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Love those Townsends in the window. They were made at Mt Pleasant and probably Mt Vernon too. (among several other places)
 

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If we could go back to the ale bottles for a moment... For comparison, here's a base that was excavated at Mt. Vernon a couple of years ago. It's 3 inches in diameter with a 1" dia. pontil.
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Hi Brian, mine is just a hair over 3" wide but there is a flat rim about 3/8" wide around the outside of the base and is concave inside that. The glass is very thick. Yours looks to me like a larger utility/ink type cylinder.
 

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Mark, this thing is super thick (1/2" on one side)

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It is probably the same style, different mold. I have shards from at least 3 diff sizes of ale/porter/min. waters with that flat base rim similar to the bottle I dug. Some are big like the 3pm quart John Clarke mineral water. I also have some that are tapered in from the rim without that flat part.
 

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Glad to see this thread goes on...

That is an extrememly thick base, and probably would have been an ale or porter. Funny, all of the examples that I have are with an early sand chip pontil or a later iron pontil. The only 3" bases that I could find with the same 1" tubular pontil were these utilities...

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bottles for identification...

I suspected MVG for the sided one, but NH for the other two.

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