I don't think I know better than experts, and I don't consider myself one. I have a modest/moderate amount of knowledge about bottles, but I'm admittedly far from an expert. I just don't think every single person who spouts off on a forum is an expert either necessarily, no offense. That's why...
Basic late 1800's BIM(blown in mold) bottle. Most likely a medicine bottle. Nice clean and attractive specimen. I'm no expert on insulators, but the era should not be too far off from the bottle. Really cool and interesting finds just digging a driveway, I normally need to visit an antique shop...
I'll try to take some closer and more accurate ones specifically of the base wear and crudeness. The neck of the bottle is striated/almost twisted like. These are super crude, but my photography skills might be a bit lacking.
I bought this sweet little pair of pontil items for $36 plus $10 shipping, so just under $50 all said and done. The bottle is about 2.75 inches. These are very blantantly and obviously legit, but hard for me to date exactly since the features could be present on stuff from the 1600's to like...
I have to agree its a repro, because I've seen several of that same one for sale in the $20-$30 dollar price range. They are all a little too crisp and minty and the style of lip just isn't so consistent with what I know to be 18th and early 19th century pontil bottles(which usually tend to have...
Still 50/50 on this myself and by the consensus. I agree that the mold seems are very odd for a repro and actually accurate for early ABM/SABM. If it is a repro, they have some very odd and unconventional machinery in their factory or shop-as I've said, repros I've seen are either blown in mold...
Here is the website I used as a tool with all the mold and machine information, and dating techniques. Dating Page (sha.org)
If anyone really wants, I can go and get direct quotes to back any of the following statements, but it's easier to summarize my findings.
What I learned from this site is...
If you mean mine(if which authentic is an early 1905-1910 non-Owens small bore ABM)-then I didn't take the picture right. The base is not neat at all-it's uneven with a big convex bulge in one area and a little concave "pinch" with some sort of gash/open bubble/manufacturing scar. I'll try to...
Nice inks, everyone that has posted! Answer to a couple questions and an update: don't worry, I did not pay anything outrageous for this bottle. I paid probably twice what a good replica would fairly cost which is a bit of a bummer, but nothing crazy(in other words nowhere even close to what it...
Definitely not a wheaton. Why? 1.) Wheatons have "Wheaton New Jersey" on the bottom. Mine has a crude uneven bottom with no name or any embossing. 2.) The glass is too crude. I didn't capture this as best I could in the pics, but Wheaton replicas are much cleaner. 3.) The seams are all wrong...
Sometimes, when I have looked at at really hardcore collections and pictures of rare colored bottles, I'm just blown away, especially umbrella and similar looking inks. I wonder where they find bottles that nice, or if they bought them, how they could manage to get them without breaking the...
My favor has shifted to medicine. I stumbled upon this example of a European medical phial type bottle from the very early 1800s.
Much cruder and more colorful, but the shape is close enough to make it really plausible that mine's an American or European medical phial, could be as early as...
Wouldn't call myself an expert at all. The spot across my street I first discovered the joy of "old bottles" as a kid just had a ton of bottles from that timeframe, so I generally know what they look like.
Good guess, looks like a basic screw-top '30s medicine to me(but I can't be sure because of the gunk, it could be a pre-1900 applied screw top which would make it really neat and much more uncommon). Can probably use some CLR to get that crap off the threads/neck area. I found tons of 1930's...
Yeah shoe polish is a good guess. Still thinking paint is pretty plausible too. I've seen inks and medicines that look like it too, those little wide-mouth cylinders are sort of a multi purpose shape. I've seen them in every common type of mold including three piece and some machine made ones...
Got this inexpensive piece recently and have a question about the seam. The bottle is a basic small cylinder with an odd light topaz grey color, but I'm not sure if the seams are early machine made or a weird mold. The glass is a bit whittled overall so could be a mold. The seams go all the way...