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Help with ID/Age of this bottle
Once you zoom on the lip you can clearly see that it's applied. Late blown in mold applied lip. Likely British or Empire so hard to tell if before or after 1900 as they were not nearly as quick to go straight to ABM when the machines came out. Great color. Good window piece. Jim G- saratogadriver
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- Forum: What is it? Antique Bottles BEFORE 1900
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Please help me date this old bottle
My money would be on old bottle but european as well. As said above, without hands on it's hard to give a definite opinion but I've not seen anything modern decorative quite like it but it just doesn't have the feel of American made either. Jim G- saratogadriver
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Pontil or smooth base
With just your pictures to go by my eye says that's the remains of an iron pontil with the iron gone. But not easy to tell. Even in person. jim G- saratogadriver
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- Forum: General Chat About Bottles
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Need help dating this bottle
Agreed. Very hard to date those sorts of British Empire era bottles. They used the same techniques much longer than we seem to have in the US. Jim G- saratogadriver
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The Iron Pontil
Odcdly enough i'm not aware of any material nailing down a definite date range for the iron pontil. I don't think I've ever seen one that could be confirmed as older than 1840s and any after 1870 are going to be pretty rare. Stoddard made pretty heavy use of the iron pontil and the first...- saratogadriver
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They Thought It Was a Soda Bottle
Sauce bottles not my forte. But you really can't lose for $10 and condition looks bright and perfect. I once bought a rather rare ink on Ebay, oddly enough being sold as a sauce bottle. Jim G- saratogadriver
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- Forum: New to the Collection
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Saloon half pint Flask
What do you call that form flask? I don't think I've ever seen one with all that shoulder pipping before. Jim G- saratogadriver
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- Forum: Digging and Finding
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Friedland Bro’s Phillipsburg, N.J.
Don't think I've ever seen a sided crown top before. Nice bottle. Jim G- saratogadriver
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Black Glass bottle found scuba diving in the bahamas
Looks like Harry and Sandchip are both posting over there these days.l Jim G- saratogadriver
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Cobalt blue medicine bottle.
Never seen one before but I'm an east coast guy. We do see midwest medicines some. I suspect it is a rare one, a nice form for a WT standard bottle and a brilliant color. I suspect it is a rather good bottle. Jim G- saratogadriver
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Hassinger & Petterson bottle with errors
It's odd that the mold errors don't seem to do much for value. Occasionally a collector who is doing a run might pay a little more for a mold error but that's about it. Jim G- saratogadriver
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- Forum: General Chat About Bottles
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Black Glass bottle found scuba diving in the bahamas
I think Harry got his pics from Willy Van Den Bossche, Antique Glass Bottles, their History and Evolution. But it wouldn't be worth $400 to buy it used on line... Unless you made a collection of black glass. Jim G- saratogadriver
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Black Glass bottle found scuba diving in the bahamas
Harry Pristis hasn't been on here since January unfortunately. He's the resident black glass expert. He used to have post charts showing the evolution of black glass form. That appears to me to be a mallet of some sort. My guess based on the form of the lip is early 1800s. Probably...- saratogadriver
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RINGROSE'S PURE HORSERADISH BOTTLE, WHERE AND WHEN MADE?
It's a pity that food bottles don't pull more money. That one is a neat one. Certainly not one I've ever seen on the east coast. And I've only seen "This bottle is never sold" on soda and beer bottles, mainly soda. Never seen it on a food or condiment bottle before. Jim G- saratogadriver
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