Steve/sewell
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I picked this up two years ago from an online auction in Massachusetts.The bottle has a real possibility as being from the Germantown Braintree Glass works from 1749 to 1755 time frame.The bottle does not resemble English nor Dutch counterparts of the same time period.It was broken and has about about 5 parts glued back together but it is whole.I would call this an American Transitional mallet shaped look although if the bottle was made in 1750 to 1755 period it would still have to be considered to be of English origin made in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.It is very heavy in weight and the glass is quite thick.
The bottle is extremely dark olive green glass which light has a very hard time passing through very typical of New England glass.The bottle was found in Nearby Quincy Massachusetts during a construction project in the early1960s.The family that owned the bottle before the auction was told the bottle was from the Germantown Glassworks in Braintree.The longer neck rules out Dutch and German made bottles and the English body lines at the shoulders are usually more tapered and the necks shorter in similar bottles.The bottle is 8 inches tall and 5 and 3/4 inches round and has a deep pontiled indented base.String types of necks were found by Richmond Morcom in his 1955 dig at the site of the glass works.I think there is an excellent chance this bottle came from the Braintree glass works and I also believe that these string lip type rum bottles were made quite extensively in the early colonies at all of the earliest glass works.
The bottle is extremely dark olive green glass which light has a very hard time passing through very typical of New England glass.The bottle was found in Nearby Quincy Massachusetts during a construction project in the early1960s.The family that owned the bottle before the auction was told the bottle was from the Germantown Glassworks in Braintree.The longer neck rules out Dutch and German made bottles and the English body lines at the shoulders are usually more tapered and the necks shorter in similar bottles.The bottle is 8 inches tall and 5 and 3/4 inches round and has a deep pontiled indented base.String types of necks were found by Richmond Morcom in his 1955 dig at the site of the glass works.I think there is an excellent chance this bottle came from the Braintree glass works and I also believe that these string lip type rum bottles were made quite extensively in the early colonies at all of the earliest glass works.
