Although the Baltimore Fire of 1904 seems to get most of the attention, there were other equally disastrous fires that occurred in that city. >From the reference book "American Bottles and Flasks and Their Ancestry" by Helen McKearin a reference is made to one of those other fires that took place. In 1850, The Baltimore Glass Works which was located at the foot of Lancaster Street in Fells Point produced two flasks associated with a fire which occurred in that year. Both flasks are almost identical with only a slight differentation in letter size. On the one side is an anchor and a pennant with the words "Baltimore Glass Works" inscribed and on the reverse is the Phoenix bird of Egyptian mythology. In block letters above the bird is the Latin "Resurgam"--to rise again. According to legend, the Phoenix rises from the ashes on the temple altar and lives on. Thus the design can be interpreted to symbolize the city rising from its ashes. Frank Kuhn