Welcome aboard Shawn M,
Congratulations, What a great find!!!
I would spend a lot of time looking all around that barn and anywhere they might have had an old outhouse or thrown away any trash. Roy
Hi Semar
The letters are easy to see on this bottle when you are holding it in your hand, just harder to see in a picture.
I haven't done any research on it so I don't know what it might have held.
Roy
Semar,
Thanks for starting this thread with your Holley Mineral Spring Water bottle. I didn't realize there were so many of the larger blob tops. I only have one that I can think of so I dug it out of the attic.
Mine is clear with a tooled top and is embossed...
Semar,
Thanks for the vote of confidence but I'm still learning how to tumble myself. I only do inexpensive bottles at that, plus my time is very limited right now. My tumbler is sitting idle now as I have to many other things going on, so I would have to say no. Others on this forum tumble all...
I would say yea to tumbling it.
Here is one I did. I couldn't find a picture from before I tumbled it but the finish looked very much like the chemists bottle next to it in the first picture. Roy
My 2 cents.
Some collectors like their bottles like that, but I don't. I like them to sparkle as they did when they were new.
It reminds me of a nice classic car or truck with the primer coming through the old paint.
It just needs a bit of work to restore it to it's original beauty.
Having said...
No mold lines, very little wear on the bottom or anywhere else. About 12.5 inches tall, and wobbles on a flat table. Might have been covered in wicker.
I'm thinking its early 1800s, American made. What do you think?
Roy