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RE: Historic Glass Bottle Identification & Information - 1/30/2008 3:10:28 PM    GuntherHess Posts: 4902 Joined: 12/13/2004 From: Frederick Maryland Status: online woops sorry again didnt mean to post on this Admin thread. Please delete my posts here if not appropriate. < Message edited by GuntherHess -- 1/30/2008 3:11:17 PM > _____________________________ Looking for Frederick Maryland and Dr Fahrney Bottles 2008 Medicine Bottle Price Guide on CDROM http://www.mattsoldhouse.com/MC/bottles/BottleBook2008.htm email http://www.mattsoldhouse.com/MC/bottles/email.jpg (in reply to lobeycat) Post #: 41

RE: Historic Glass Bottle Identification & Information - 1/30/2008 3:14:12 PM    jfcutter Posts: 54 Joined: 10/27/2004 From: Beautiful Klamath Falls, Oregon Status: offline Well....the images are pretty good but some things can't be determined unless a bottle is in hand.  The absence of seams could mean free-blown...or turn-molded - a more likely conclusion given the overall "look" of the bottle.  The base looks very reminescent of turn-mold bottle from the late 19th to early 20th centuries.  The images show the bottle as very symmetrical which is not typical of early free-blown bottles, but is typical of mid to late 19th century turn-molded bottles. The lip or finish is not typical at all of an early (pre-1800) bottle and seems to be tooled, not applied.  Aqua is also a very unusual bottle color for anything prior to the mid to late 18th century...even early 19th. A good source book for styles and trends of early (European) bottles is Van den Bossche's book "Antique Glass Bottles" which covers almost exclusively European bottles.  A quick scan through it showed nothing precisely like the pictured bottle, but some that are similar in shape (like a Burgundy wine shape more or less).  Seals can feature all kinds of things in them...many dated seals were made well after the date in the seal (i.e., was a founding date of the users, or some other significant date).  Even if the heritage of the emblematic motif in the seal can be traced back to a very early time, it does not automatically follow that a bottle (or other item) with that motif is of the earlier age. The features that I can see of this bottle - and absence of a pontil scar - strongly indicates a mid to late 19th century bottle...Bill _____________________________ Bill Lindsey - Klamath Falls, OR. Author of the BLM/SHA's "Historic Glass Bottle Identification & Information Website" http://www.sha.org/bottle/index.htm (...and a collector of American mouth-blown bottles) (in reply to lobeycat) Post #: 42

RE: Historic Glass Bottle Identification & Information - 1/30/2008 3:20:45 PM    bearswede Posts: 2906 Joined: 9/28/2004 From: western mass Status: offline (see below...) Ron < Message edited by bearswede -- 1/30/2008 3:21:33 PM > _____________________________ "I LOVE Wolfies!!!!!!!!!!!!" (in reply to jfcutter) Post #: 43

RE: Historic Glass Bottle Identification & Information - 1/30/2008 3:22:52 PM    bearswede Posts: 2906 Joined: 9/28/2004 From: western mass Status: offline quote: I'll probably get additional grief for its new location (connected with....archaeologists). Not from me you won't...! Ron _____________________________ "I LOVE Wolfies!!!!!!!!!!!!" (in reply to jfcutter) Post #: 44

RE: Historic Glass Bottle Identification & Information - 1/30/2008 3:25:37 PM    lobeycat Posts: 3594 Joined: 9/8/2003 From: RED SOX Nation Status: offline Gunth, not really the lumberjack type. I had to shrink that crown quite a bit to fit on that dainty little head... _____________________________ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dc86_Weoye0 ya never come back (in reply to bearswede) Post #: 45

RE: Historic Glass Bottle Identification & Information - 1/30/2008 3:27:55 PM    lobeycat Posts: 3594 Joined: 9/8/2003 From: RED SOX Nation Status: offline quote: Not from me you won't...! Ron I keep forgetting you where an archey ologist in your hippy days. _____________________________ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dc86_Weoye0 ya never come back (in reply to lobeycat) Post #: 46

RE: Historic Glass Bottle Identification & Information - 1/30/2008 3:36:31 PM    bearswede Posts: 2906 Joined: 9/28/2004 From: western mass Status: offline quote: I keep forgetting you where an archey ologist in your hippy days. Actually, my friend, it was a bit later than that... First I dug bottles (while majoring in English)... Then I became a chef... Then I became an archeologist and gave away my bottles... Then I went back to cooking... Then I started collecting bottles again... Now...??? I'm semi-retired, I guess... Ron _____________________________ "I LOVE Wolfies!!!!!!!!!!!!" (in reply to lobeycat) Post #: 47

RE: Historic Glass Bottle Identification & Information - 1/30/2008 3:40:25 PM    RedGinger   Posts: 920 Joined: 12/7/2007 Status: offline Sounds like an interesting life, Ron!  I found that majoring in English was not that useful, but interesting nonetheless.  I considered archaeology, but the math part kind of turned me off lol.  And a chef too?  How did you find the time to do all of that?  (in reply to bearswede) Post #: 48

RE: Historic Glass Bottle Identification & Information - 1/30/2008 3:42:53 PM    lobeycat Posts: 3594 Joined: 9/8/2003 From: RED SOX Nation Status: offline A well rounded life BigBear, unlike mine which loops endlessly in rut formation. i hope they pentioned you off, the dirty so and so's Me? I'm semi-retarded, ask anyone 'round here.... Cheer up big man _____________________________ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dc86_Weoye0 ya never come back (in reply to bearswede) Post #: 49

RE: Historic Glass Bottle Identification & Information - 1/30/2008 3:49:34 PM    RICKJJ59W Posts: 3322 Joined: 3/8/2007 From: Lehigh Valley US of A Status: offline I Major in privy digging,hopefully in a well rounded hole _____________________________ My Web Page.Lots of pix. Dig story's published in Antique Bottle & Glass Collector. New story added 9/08 www.19thcenturybottlediggers.com Digs in action. http://www.flickr.com/photos/pitpirate/ (in reply to RedGinger) Post #: 50

RE: Historic Glass Bottle Identification & Information - 1/30/2008 3:55:45 PM    RedGinger   Posts: 920 Joined: 12/7/2007 Status: offline I need to dig a pit right now... (in reply to RICKJJ59W) Post #: 51

RE: Historic Glass Bottle Identification & Information - 2/3/2008 4:53:53 PM    kkaecker   Posts: 1 Joined: 2/3/2008 Status: offline Millville Bottle Works Bottle 1888 Is this bottle a repo and what type of bottle is it?  Attachment (1) (in reply to Admin) Post #: 52

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