RE: seeing we are on the topic of blobs
Hi dirtflicker,
Yes, your bottle is English. A beer bottle dated around 1900-1910. West Bromwich is North West of Birmingham in the English Midlands. I have a codd from the same company.
Nice bottle, but no great rarity or value I'm afraid, over...
Hi Stuart,
I can't say without seeing the condition, but typically the Ginger Beers are worth £10 / £25 each to collectors I see some are "R Whites", one of the more common makes, but still good if they are in mint condition.
These bottles date about 1900-1915 I'd say.
Andyf
Hi Madpaddla,
Nice picture. The very bottom one in the photo could be very old....it's probably 17th/early 18th century....
Take a look at...
http://www.dawnmist.demon.co.uk/pipe-1.htm
Andyf
Hi Stonemason
I download Paint Shop Pro shareware off the web, and use it to resize mine, usually down to about 22% of original.
http://www.corel.com/
...though pretty well any image package will do this..
Andyf
Yep, I'd say English.
I think the stopper is non-original though (may be why it is stuck!)
32 on the base may be 32 Ounce, it is common to do this.
Date - 1920-20 I'd say. Value: Well over here it would not be high, perhaps $10-15 USD equivalent.
Andyf
Hi Chantella,
The numbers on the base of bottles usually have little meaning, they are simply mould numbers from manufacture, or a batch number of some sort.
One exception is large lettering on the base of some English Codd bottles, where a single letter would represent the bottle filler...
Hi Capsoda
Wow, I had no idea you could be arrested for digging.... We don't really have that sort of problem except for (for instance) metal detecting on protected sites.
I guess that in that sort of climate then something like this sale could easily cloud peoples views further.
I...
Well guys, I'm going to go against the flow here....
At the end of the day, a bottle is a bit of glass worth nothing, except to those that place a value on it. Be it $50, or $1000, it's still just a bit of glass.
If someone pays that price, well, they can probably afford it, so it's fair...
Hi JGUIS,
I have a bit of input here, based on searching for dumps on farms in the UK. That may not seem too relevent, but of course many US farmers were emegrants and may have taken practices with them.
The first point I'd note is that dumps can be VERY close to houses. It seems that they...
Oooh nice OLD bottles...
An important thing to consider is that often a local merchant would bring a barrel of whiskey/win/rum etc., and then decant it into bottles for local sale.
This means that although the style may be that of a particular beverage, the reality was often to use or...
Hi Brad,
That is one strange bottle.... The metalwork looks like pewter or gunmetal. The design looks french, judging from the Fleur de Lys design.
Couple of questions...
Is the stopper corked?
How tall is it?
Is there any evidence of silver plating? It may have had that, and it's all...
Hi there Southern Maine,
I think your oil lamp may be a door knob!
Glass insulators are interesting, we just don't have them in the UK, everything was usually Porcelain.
good luck
Andyf
Hey Willman,
Sounds like you've done some good research and got some great leads going....
I agree with your comment about dumps in sand, but also I'd add where they burned wood in fires, rather than coal. Wood ash leaves bottle sparkling mint too...
Good luck with your digging...good...