single antique american intact c. 1845-1855 iron pontiled medium sapphire blue soda bottle with desirable crudities manufactured for new york bottler f. gleason. the front body is embossed "f. cleason / rochester / n.y." with reversed letter 'n' in both "n.y." and "gleason" and the 'g' appearing as a 'c'. a circular slug is stamped right above the embossed lettering, though no word or logo appears within or around it. the long narrow neck has significant stretch marks curving out from the applied rounded collar or blobtop. the base features a moderate kickup with a small amount of residue from the iron pontil. crudities are typical of its age and date of manufacture, including allover whittling, bubbles and asymmetry. possibly hand blown by union glass works, philadelphia, pa. discovered at wolf point. chicago, ills. likely pitched off a passing schooner traveling along the chicago river.