PrairieDeb
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I have been looking for a forum like this for ages, and just happened to google it up today while I was looking for information on a couple of my bottles. So I hope you don' t mind if I join your little group occasionally, since of all my assorted collections and " kicks I get on" as my husband says, my bottles are my main interest.
I have a pretty good familiarity with ACL and embossed sodas and such, but I am baffled by two old bottles I found in a " junk-tique" yard a few years ago. I paid a dollar each, so not a major investment, but I can' t find a thing about them. I' ll post small pictures in this and the three follow up posts so I don' t take up too much space. I have determined this much....both are 3pm' s, but I' m not sure how to describe the lips of either. I think the first you' ll see is considered tapered and you can see where the lip was melted into the neck. The color is definitely deep olive green black glass. You will also see that it does seem to be pontilled, with extremely crude (rough) texture to the glass. The second bottle seems to have a more modern (maybe double rounded?) lip, that seems to have been applied separately, but it' s a definite 3 pm by the seams.
The interesting part of this bottom is on the bottom by the pontil. If you can see in the picture, it looks like an " R" or " P" was embossed on the bottom. The letter is very raised.
Any ideas as to age, type, or value of these bottles would be very much appreciated. I am thinking of giving the first one to a friend, and I' d like to have some information on it when I give it to her. As this is my first time posting, I hope I upload the pics properly.
Thanks in advance!
Debbie
I have a pretty good familiarity with ACL and embossed sodas and such, but I am baffled by two old bottles I found in a " junk-tique" yard a few years ago. I paid a dollar each, so not a major investment, but I can' t find a thing about them. I' ll post small pictures in this and the three follow up posts so I don' t take up too much space. I have determined this much....both are 3pm' s, but I' m not sure how to describe the lips of either. I think the first you' ll see is considered tapered and you can see where the lip was melted into the neck. The color is definitely deep olive green black glass. You will also see that it does seem to be pontilled, with extremely crude (rough) texture to the glass. The second bottle seems to have a more modern (maybe double rounded?) lip, that seems to have been applied separately, but it' s a definite 3 pm by the seams.
The interesting part of this bottom is on the bottom by the pontil. If you can see in the picture, it looks like an " R" or " P" was embossed on the bottom. The letter is very raised.
Any ideas as to age, type, or value of these bottles would be very much appreciated. I am thinking of giving the first one to a friend, and I' d like to have some information on it when I give it to her. As this is my first time posting, I hope I upload the pics properly.
Thanks in advance!
Debbie
