Monday, July 18, 2016

Pyrex Coffee Decanter

Here's an unusual item I found at the Kane County Flea Market in July, 2016.

There is no mark at all on this item, but because it has an identical cork and neck wrap as Pyrex's promotional bottles for Jim Beam bourbon, I'm pretty confident that this is also Pyrex. It appears to me to be a repurposed large flask from Pyrex's lab ware line, wrapped and corked like the smaller Beam bottles, in a chrome stand with a candle holder to keep the coffee warm.

I sold this thing so quickly, I never got measurements, so everything is approximate here.

I'd say the stand stood about 18-20" high. Volume of the flask? Not sure. Maybe a litre?




So I sold it at Vintage Garage Chicago in July 2016 to a guy who fell in love with it on the spot. He said he was going to keep it on his bar and use it in the winter months for mulled wine and glög. Made some good profit on it, too!

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