earlyglasscollector
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Got this one off ebay a few weeks back, and indeed it travelled back over the big pond to it's homeland. At first sight it looks like an aqua version of the classic German "Boot" bottle, those slightly weird rugby ball (or even American football)...or for Family Guy fans "Stewie face-shaped", c1740/50, BUT this is a super rare English dark aqua version of the same form, cross hinge molded with large sand pontil and the classic c1830/40 English utility lip. Very pleased to get this and cheaply....But then we can't all know about everything so it has to happen sometimes..
Only seen one of these before.
The shape is so exactly like the German boot that it leads me to believe that this shape was associated or had become associated with a particular wine, German probably (because most of the German ones seemd to be for export only- they are rarely found IN Germany) so this was an attempt to make an English version for which to sell the same wine....
Whatever, it is superbly crude and delightful, heavily whittled, and I guess won't last long....!
earlyglass
Only seen one of these before. The shape is so exactly like the German boot that it leads me to believe that this shape was associated or had become associated with a particular wine, German probably (because most of the German ones seemd to be for export only- they are rarely found IN Germany) so this was an attempt to make an English version for which to sell the same wine....
Whatever, it is superbly crude and delightful, heavily whittled, and I guess won't last long....!
earlyglass
