Description
PHIL KLEINSCHMIDT, LEADVILLE, COLORADO
Pint whiskey bottle original handblown flask, circa 1900, plus three (3) original Leadville, Colorado photographs.
Condition: 1) handblown pint whiskey flask, purpled, 1900, very good plus condition with a light shade of interior staining; 2) original CDV photograph of a young Phil Kleinschmidt by A. E. Rinehart, 1880s; 3) Exterior of Kleinschmidt Plumbing & Heating, 417 Harrison Avenue, Leadville, ca. 1910; and, 4) Interior of Kleinschmidt Plumbing & Heating, 417 Harrison Avenue, Leadville, Colorado, ca. 1910.
Whiskey Bottle dimensions: 6-1/8 inches in height; 2-1/4 inches wide at base; 1-1/4 inches in width. CDV photograph dimensions: 2-1/2 inches by 4-1/4 inches [A. E. Rinehart was a partner with William Henry Jackson in a Denver photography business in the 1880s.] Exterior photograph image of
Kleinschmidt Plumbing & Heating dimensions: 8 inches by 6-1/8 inches, circa 1910. Interior photograph image of Kleinschmidt Plumbing & Heating dimensions: 7-1/8 inches by 5-1/8 inches, circa 1910. [Listing is for saloon whiskey bottle and three aforementioned photographs.]
Evidentally, the saloon business did not work out for Phil Kleinschmidt and he decided to enter the plumbing & heating business in Leadville instead.
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