Vintage Jenny Lind Fislerville Glass Works Whiskey Bottle

Description

This bottle is a green 9" Jenny Lind bottle / flask. This is more than likely a reproduction. Still, a must-have example for any collection. The starting price is low so that a new collector can get a great bottle at a reasonable price. Please let the pictures serve as part of the description.
A little back-story:
In September 1850, P. T. Barnum embarked on a nationwide tour with a Swedish opera singer that would bring him a vast fortune and create a new cultural phenomenon in the United States. Barnum succeeded in building such great public anticipation about the "Swedish Nightingale" that 40,000 people showed up to greet the arrival of her ship in New York harbor. From her opening concert in New York City's Castle Garden to subsequent performances in cities and towns across the country, Barnum fueled public fascination with Lind by orchestrating events and negotiating Lind-endorsed products (including Jenny Lind songs, clothes, chairs, and pianos). "Lindomania" lasted until 1852, when the partnership collapsed over logistical and financial issues. Barnum shrewdly promoted Lind?s character--her modesty, benevolence, and selflessness--as much as her artistry. One scholar contends that because of Barnum?s promotion, Lind became "the standard for measuring not just sopranos, or even women artists, but women" throughout the 1850s.
Jenny Lind in the 1840s right through the 1860s was more popular then the Beatles, Elvis, Sinatra, Michael Jackson and any other modern singing legend. She was loved and adorned by the entire public where as the other mentioned singers had their own genres and age classes. Jenny sold out every concert in America well ahead of each scheduled event in each major United states city in her whirlwind tour. The business community would plaster her likeness on just about every conceivable piece of marketable merchandise imaginable just like today's star athletes and entertainers adorn endless collectable items and clothing. The glass factories joined in and and in a short span Jenny Lind or as in some cases spelled Jeny Lind was carved into the molds of the new calabash type glass flasks that were flooding the liquor markets in the Mid Atlantic Region in the year 1850 on up to 1880.Jenny's portrait was mainly displayed on these calabash type flasks.
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