Was out looking for bottles this past Saturday with diginit when he spotted this rattlesnake. Spring has arrived in California and the critters are coming out ...[:-]
Twenty years ago when I was most actively digging bottles we used the term applied top when the bottle had a lip that was made by applying additional glass to the top of the bottle and forming it into the lip with some kind of tool. Newer bottles (1890's - 1905) would have a tooled top finish...