Old decoratively embossed "Madera Winery" bottle found!

[EdsFinds]

Found this beautiful "Oldish" wine bottle. I know it was a wine bottle from a "Madera Bonded Winery." My question is, of course, what year would it have been made? My guess is somewhere between 1940 and 1965? just a guess. Can anyone educate me on determining wine bottles year of manufacture?

 

[CanadianBottles]

I can't make out a date code on that one, but your guess sounds about right age-wise for that bottle.

 

[EdsFinds]

Thanks! At least I know I'm in the ballpark. I don't think it's terribly valuable, but it's a very beautiful addition to my begining collection!

 

[Timelypicken]

I have a couple decorative wines somewhere. They probably aren't worth more than a couple bucks, but they are cool lookin.

 

[EdsFinds]

Yeah. They don't make them like this anymore...like all things. Today its just a plain old bottle with a paper label that is just garbage, not made to last.

 

[EdsFinds]

Hey, post some pics of the ones you have. I'd like to see other examples!

 

[Timelypicken]

Here are 3 wines

 

[Timelypicken]

I posted some more decorative whiskeys here. https://www.antique-bottles.net/threads/hiram-walker-bottle-with-lid.693329/#post-737609

 

[EdsFinds]

hey! they are nice examples! The one clear straight tall bottle looks just like mine. I pass allot of (and I mean allot) of plain old "flask" type whiskey or wine bottles in this one site, but I feel they are too modern and have no value. They have no markings on them and look to be from the 70s or 80s. Maybe I will grab one to ask you or others for your opinion. I'm sure though, that I will find more valuable and older ones at this new site! Thanks again!

 

[SODABOB]

Ed

I did some research on your bottle, and even though you didn't mention the Medera Bonded Wine Co. that was located in Baltimore, Maryland - which was founded in 1914 - it appears to be one of their bottles. Part of my research included looking for that particular bottle with the embossed grape design, and the latest example I could find for it was from 1941. There are hundreds of ads for them, and it appears they stopped using that particular bottle sometime in the 1940s. Another thing I noticed on your bottle is what appears to be an S-in-a-circle on the base. The mark is most likely one of the following. Even though we may never know which of these glass makers produced your bottle, the latest of the four seems to have been used no later than circa 1959 - which can be narrowed down a little more due to the Medera Bonded Wine Co. being established in 1914 - with Sterling and Sneath being the most likely candidate. This link is to an article about Sterling and Sneath ...

https://sha.org/bottle/pdffiles/SterlingSneathGlass.pdf

Although there are hundreds of ads for Medera, not all of them include illustrations of their bottles, so this is somewhat inconclusive. However, like I said, this is the latest ad I could find that depicted an illustration of their bottle with the embossed grapes. I'm also attaching a file about their 25th Anniversary from 1939.



1941