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    "Patent" bottle from Haiti

    So the "Patent" bottle likely held ale and probably dates from 1880-1910 and the case gin base with the pontil scar would likely date from the late 1850's through the 1860s. I'll let the person know who found these--he'll be happy to know a little bit about his finds. [attachment=P8290002.jpg] I...
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    "Patent" bottle from Haiti

    I happen to be doing some scientific diving off the north coast of Haiti at the moment (and experiencing Tropical Storm Erika as I write this). One of our scientists turned up a bottle on a soft mud slope at around 15 meters depth. It has an applied finish and the mold lines (not very apparent...
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    Nyal Quality medicine bottle

    Columbian Mammoth (Mammuthus columbi) and the first complete one I've found in 8 years of fossil hunting in South Florida. It was a VERY good day.
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    Nyal Quality medicine bottle

    Just a little before finding this complete bottle, I uncovered two matching pieces of an aqua colored 1920’s Dr. WB Caldwell Syrup of Pepsin bottle—a real shame it was busted up and I never found the remaining pieces to reconstruct it. We also found an older Clorox bottle and my friend found two...
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    Nyal Quality medicine bottle

    Thanks for all the info. I knew this was the place to post a question for a speedy an informative response.
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    Nyal Quality medicine bottle

    Haven't posted a question here in some time as I have been too busy to go out and hunt for bottles recently. I was, however, hunting for fossils in a river in South Florida when I came across several older broken bottles (what a shame) and one that was intact. It's embossed I'm guessing, from...
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    Old Soda? Bottle

    This crude embossing on the base of the bottle is difficult enough to see in hand and even trickier to try to photograph. It is in fact "13" and not "C3" as it may appear in my image. I was assuming it was something inconsequential (such as a mold style as suggested by others) but as it was the...
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    Old Soda? Bottle

    I have a friend who found a Codd bottle underwater and sitting for a century in saltwater understandably aged the rubber seal gasket in the neck. After a few months of sitting in her house the gasket dried-out and fell apart. To attempt to counteract this problem with my Codd I inverted my...
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    Old Soda? Bottle

    Spectacular picture! Is that from the SHA site? It doesn't take to long googling "antique bottle" before you come across a link to the sha.org site and I've read bits and pieces of it. I guess I'll have to devote some time to digesting this site more thoroughly. My "understanding" about using...
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    Old Soda? Bottle

    My understanding (limited at best) is that fully automated (machine made) bottle production could be detected by the seams of the bottle continuing up to and through the mouth of the bottle. That is to say that the bottle was completed in a single process leaving only one set of seams. All...
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    Old Soda? Bottle

    This is a view of this bottle from the base. Maybe you can make out in the image the crude embossing of what appears to be "13". There also appears to be a raised mold seam around the foot so I'm guessing that a separate mold piece was used (possibly with varying embossings) to form the base...
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    Old Soda? Bottle

    Here's a view of the applied finish. Hopefully you can see from the photo that the finish has mold lines and that they do not line-up with the lines on the body of the bottle (indicating a machine-made bottle which I would have left in the briney deep).
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    Old Soda? Bottle

    Here's a slightly different bottle from my small collection. It appears to be a soda bottle with a lip which I believe is called a "crown". This is the type of bottle top that I'm familiar with as it resembles the bottles that I drank out of (and returned for the deposit) when I was a kid...
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    Six To Gallon bottle

    Funny as I just watched the PBS series on Prohibitition last week. A silly idea that didn't take into account human nature. Were they still making bottles in 3-piece molds with applied lips as late as the 1920s? It's definitely got a different sort of shape (more pronounced shoulder and the...
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    Green (wine?) bottle

    Turn-molded - a new term for me to learn. Seems like a more advanced technique. Thanks for that. -Newbie
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    Small 3-piece mold black glass bottle

    Ale bottle was where I was leaning (with little but intuition to go on) as its usage. Thanks for the term "haze" I'll add that to my vocabulary when describing this bottle (or others) to friends and family. When you first start collecting (at that nascent stage is where I am at the moment), you...
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    Green (wine?) bottle

    And one of the base showing the speaker cone looking shape of the deep funnel.
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    Green (wine?) bottle

    Here's the missing image:
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    Green (wine?) bottle

    I'm assuming that this light green bottle was likely used to hold wine as it looks much like a modern day wine bottle in size and shape. I know it is not a modern day wine bottle due to the applied finish. The lip shape is mostly a simple band and the very top edge of the lip is beveled at an...
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    Six To Gallon bottle

    Here is an image of the embossing on the base. -Newbie

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