Need help identifying a bottle

b.ecollects said:

I got this bottle from the antique store nearby, and I was wondering if it is a good find or not.
I don't know anything about this bottle, so any help would be appreciated

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Wildcat wrangler said:

What does it say on it and how tall is it? It looks like it was done with what they call a “shingle mold” but there are 2 schools of thought there! Some say it was actual shingles they molded it with, while others say it’s called that from the look of it. I am not sure but what embossing with shingles is do-able. It looks like a 7”? I recently sold one kind of like it, minus the embossment, so fast, for $40 but have regretted it! I see them for a lot more, but mostly, I liked that bottle. The thing that helps is the guys dad was a collector, and had one like it, and had died last year. So the guy was super nice and just loves that bottle- so that helped! I picked up these, a couple weeks ago at the Chico bottle show:

check out the bubbles swirling thru this- I got it for $10? If you don’t mind, what did yours set you back for?
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b.ecollects said:

I got this bottle from the antique store nearby, and I was wondering if it is a good find or not.
I don't know anything about this bottle, so any help would be appreciated

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Wildcat wrangler said:

What does it say on it and how tall is it? It looks like it was done with what they call a “shingle mold” but there are 2 schools of thought there! Some say it was actual shingles they molded it with, while others say it’s called that from the look of it. I am not sure but what embossing with shingles is do-able. . . .

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Harry Pristis said:

"Shingle mold" is a strange idea from some imaginative, but uninformed, collector. The idea has no foundation in the gritty reality of bottle-making.

I guess the shingle idea arose from the vertical striations in the sides of case bottles. These striations are produced by grooves in the interior of the iron bottle mold. The striations increase the surface of the glass causing it to cool and harden faster than non-striated glass. At the same time the striations may make the side walls more rigid (as with the corrugated walls of a cardboard box). This was a late development in making case bottles, dating to around 1880-90s.

We've all seen the tendency of earlier, non-striated case bottles to deform when removed from the mold. Here's are examples of both mold results:

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• Angola (Luanda, Sonyo and Cabinda)
• Dutch Gold Coast (settlements along coast of Ghana, including El Mina)
• Goree (in Senegal)
• Moçambique (Delagoa Bay)
• Sao Tomé
• South Africa. The Dutch Cape Colony (Kaapstad / Cape Town)

Harry Pristis said:

The Dutch marketed gin all over the world, including their colonies in Africa:
Africa:

• Angola (Luanda, Sonyo and Cabinda)
• Dutch Gold Coast (settlements along coast of Ghana, including El Mina)
• Goree (in Senegal)
• Moçambique (Delagoa Bay)
• Sao Tomé
• South Africa. The Dutch Cape Colony (Kaapstad / Cape Town)

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