Once you zoom on the lip you can clearly see that it's applied. Late blown in mold applied lip. Likely British or Empire so hard to tell if before or after 1900 as they were not nearly as quick to go straight to ABM when the machines came out. Great color. Good window piece.
Jim G
My money would be on old bottle but european as well. As said above, without hands on it's hard to give a definite opinion but I've not seen anything modern decorative quite like it but it just doesn't have the feel of American made either.
Jim G
Odcdly enough i'm not aware of any material nailing down a definite date range for the iron pontil. I don't think I've ever seen one that could be confirmed as older than 1840s and any after 1870 are going to be pretty rare. Stoddard made pretty heavy use of the iron pontil and the first...
Sauce bottles not my forte. But you really can't lose for $10 and condition looks bright and perfect.
I once bought a rather rare ink on Ebay, oddly enough being sold as a sauce bottle.
Jim G
Never seen one before but I'm an east coast guy. We do see midwest medicines some. I suspect it is a rare one, a nice form for a WT standard bottle and a brilliant color. I suspect it is a rather good bottle.
Jim G
It's odd that the mold errors don't seem to do much for value. Occasionally a collector who is doing a run might pay a little more for a mold error but that's about it.
Jim G
I think Harry got his pics from Willy Van Den Bossche, Antique Glass Bottles, their History and Evolution. But it wouldn't be worth $400 to buy it used on line... Unless you made a collection of black glass.
Jim G
Harry Pristis hasn't been on here since January unfortunately. He's the resident black glass expert. He used to have post charts showing the evolution of black glass form. That appears to me to be a mallet of some sort. My guess based on the form of the lip is early 1800s. Probably...
It's a pity that food bottles don't pull more money. That one is a neat one. Certainly not one I've ever seen on the east coast. And I've only seen "This bottle is never sold" on soda and beer bottles, mainly soda. Never seen it on a food or condiment bottle before.
Jim G
somewhere 1820-1850, probably closer to the former then the latter as the urn form seems to have been popular pretty early. Looks like an Urn on one side and an eagle on the other. I'd need a real good look at the embossing to be able to match it to a McKearin number, which is what the GII...
The squat ale is almost certainly stoddard with that pontil. the two patent flasks are new england, harder to nail down but probably also stoddard. Those and the aqua pontiled bottle are all in the roughly 1850-1870 range, leaning more towards civil war or pre... Age was what you were...
I've got a couple of umbrella inks with the bird swing. Really neat but doesn't add any value. Mold and blowing defects always seem so neat but rarely add value for some reason.
Jim G