Harry Pristis
Well-Known Member
What do you suppose these stout little barrel figural bottles were used for?
Both have a smooth base, an applied and tooled lip, and were blown in a two-piece mold (or "mould" in the case of the bottle on the right).
I got the one on the right from a British digger who told me he dug it at Lucy's tip at Oxford.
Both are very dark glass. The Oxford bottle is a blackish emerald-green, and the other is that smokey olive-amber color you see in Belgian black glass (from a reducing coal furnace, I believe).
I have no information on the barrel bottle on the left; however, the base is embossed with "A" / "9" on opposing sides of the base near the edge.
I have always assumed that these two barrels were mustard jars, and I have inset a pic of the two with a typical French mustard barrel. Recently, I saw a suggestion that these are snuff bottles -- I cannot find that reference now.
Anyone have any ideas about these interesting little bottles?
----------------Harry Pristis
Both have a smooth base, an applied and tooled lip, and were blown in a two-piece mold (or "mould" in the case of the bottle on the right).
I got the one on the right from a British digger who told me he dug it at Lucy's tip at Oxford.
Both are very dark glass. The Oxford bottle is a blackish emerald-green, and the other is that smokey olive-amber color you see in Belgian black glass (from a reducing coal furnace, I believe).
I have no information on the barrel bottle on the left; however, the base is embossed with "A" / "9" on opposing sides of the base near the edge.
I have always assumed that these two barrels were mustard jars, and I have inset a pic of the two with a typical French mustard barrel. Recently, I saw a suggestion that these are snuff bottles -- I cannot find that reference now.
Anyone have any ideas about these interesting little bottles?
----------------Harry Pristis
