waiting for codd
Well-Known Member
- Joined
- Sep 27, 2021
- Messages
- 55
- Reaction score
- 158
- Points
- 33
By "spun top" do you mean hand tooled? (The photo is not clear enough for me to discern details of the mold seams.) If the lip is hand tooled, then your bottle likely dates before 1910.Nice spun top but I don’t have a clue on most US bottles
That will be the different names our bottles have in Australia (we call ACL bottles Pyros, Drugstores chemists etc) Spun tops are hand tooled it’s just the name we give them. I have a few nice looking ones like the crown seal in the middle of this photoBy "spun top" do you mean hand tooled? (The photo is not clear enough for me to discern details of the mold seams.) If the lip is hand tooled, then your bottle likely dates before 1910.
After invention of the Owens automatic bottle-making machine in 1903, American manufacturers quickly adopted the technology. The majority of the accounts I've read indicate that it was producing most of the glass bottles in the country by 1910.
Moreover, since William Painter invented the crown bottle cap in 1892, your bottle cannot date before that year.
I assumed that "spun top" was equivalent to "hand tooled" but wanted to confirm that's what you meant so that I could narrow the production era of your Indianapolis Brewing Company bottle for you.That will be the different names our bottles have in Australia (we call ACL bottles Pyros, Drugstores chemists etc) Spun tops are hand tooled it’s just the name we give them. I have a few nice looking ones like the crown seal in the middle of this photo