I've been pulling boxes of old bottles out of my shed (used to be my grandparents' home) for the past couple of weeks, and found a dusty old cardboard tube with a paper rolled up in it. It's too brittle to play with but I was able to see the name, volume number and date of the paper, plus an...
This bottle has seams up both sides of the body that end at the collar, and what I assume is a pontil mark with 3 points surrounding a center point in the center of the base. No markings / embossing anywhere that I can see. It's 8" tall, about 2 1/8" diameter at the base and 1" outside diameter...
I want to think that this is an older bottle due to its color, lack of visible seems, and the irregular thickness of the base, however it has a threaded top and embossing on the base. Is it just brown glass? TIA
I recently found myself the proud owner of ~100 potentially collectible bottles, ranging from rare-ish regional soda bottles to miscellaneous old blue, purple and even a couple amber bottles. One of my friends is a bottle nut and he's trying to convince me to sell him several pieces. I'm...
I'm new to bottles, but have found 100+ blue, purple and clear bottles and a couple ambers that seem interesting. This straight sided, crown top coke bottle for instance. I can't find any pictures online that resemble it. Help? On one side of the bottle in the middle panel it says "CONTENTS 7...