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The early American colonial glass houses produced very common green vial bottles as they were a needed item that held primarily medicines.
Here are four small vial bottle all from the 1700s and I beleive through color identification three seperate glass houses.The two to the left are from John Frederick Amelungs Glassmanufactory.The third from the left was manufactured at the United Glass Company in Alloway New Jersey (WIstarburgh).The bottle on the far right with the flared lip is from Wilelm Henry Stiegels American Flint glass Manufactory.Notice the Amelung bottles are a paler more olive shade of green.The pontils on the Amelung bottles have the red dirt substance I have spoke often about.The Wistar made bottle has the (Gall) a yellowy sandy substance in the pontil labeled by J. Victor Owen the Canadian proffesor who can tell by percentage the breakdown of each trace element in glass from a particular manufactory. The gall seen in the pontils time and time again from that manufactory.Last the Stiegel bottle. Stiegels common green bottles have a light turquoise blue hue in the green when viewd in direct light.This can be seen in the bottle with the flared lip when looking at the three bases of the bottles in a picture I will show later.
Ok again pretty good ways to tell where the glass may have come from.1st-Amelung has orangey red dirt like matter in a lot of their pontils and the green color of the common bottle has a hue of olive in it.2nd-Wistarburgh is the purest green and a lot of the time gall can be seen in the pontils.The gall almost looks like sulfur not quite as yellow.3rd-Stiegel glass has the turqoise hue in the green on a lot of the common bottles manufactored there.
I hope this is helpfull in helping to identify which colonial glass maker might have made a bottle in your collection.The first picture of four vials.
Here are four small vial bottle all from the 1700s and I beleive through color identification three seperate glass houses.The two to the left are from John Frederick Amelungs Glassmanufactory.The third from the left was manufactured at the United Glass Company in Alloway New Jersey (WIstarburgh).The bottle on the far right with the flared lip is from Wilelm Henry Stiegels American Flint glass Manufactory.Notice the Amelung bottles are a paler more olive shade of green.The pontils on the Amelung bottles have the red dirt substance I have spoke often about.The Wistar made bottle has the (Gall) a yellowy sandy substance in the pontil labeled by J. Victor Owen the Canadian proffesor who can tell by percentage the breakdown of each trace element in glass from a particular manufactory. The gall seen in the pontils time and time again from that manufactory.Last the Stiegel bottle. Stiegels common green bottles have a light turquoise blue hue in the green when viewd in direct light.This can be seen in the bottle with the flared lip when looking at the three bases of the bottles in a picture I will show later.
Ok again pretty good ways to tell where the glass may have come from.1st-Amelung has orangey red dirt like matter in a lot of their pontils and the green color of the common bottle has a hue of olive in it.2nd-Wistarburgh is the purest green and a lot of the time gall can be seen in the pontils.The gall almost looks like sulfur not quite as yellow.3rd-Stiegel glass has the turqoise hue in the green on a lot of the common bottles manufactored there.
I hope this is helpfull in helping to identify which colonial glass maker might have made a bottle in your collection.The first picture of four vials.