Hope this is suitably Hostoric?...

earlyglasscollector · Nov 23, 2012

This is I think the last sealed octagonal to pass through my hands last year, and still one of my favourites, love it's iridescence, and the provenance is perfect!

earlyglass

LC · Nov 23, 2012

Crude looking bottle , thanks for posting it .

epackage · Nov 23, 2012

Amazing bottle for sure...

JOETHECROW · Nov 23, 2012

Winner, winner, ...chicken dinner!!! [

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Loving that bottle for every reason...!

RED Matthews · Nov 23, 2012

Hello again Mark; I would like to know the lettering - I couldn't be sure of all the words.
I really like your bottle definitions and showings. Some send me looking for definition, like "cross hinge mold" ???
RED Mathews

cowseatmaize · Nov 23, 2012

Hope this is suitably Hostoric?..

Yes Mark, it sure is!
It's not a website but this place is really confusing the hell out of me now. I'll go with the flow and ask the same as Red now. What is it exactly? That seal is great but I cant read it either.

earlyglasscollector · Nov 23, 2012

Yes sorry guys, the seal reads "COLLETT/AND/FAULKNER/BATH". I've actually lost the research I did on it which came up with the dates etc, but they were wine and spirit merchants in the middle to late 18thC.

The crosshinge mold term? I guess you are referring to the English boot in my other post on here which is molded, in two halves, where these earlier molds encased the complete bottle as such, including the base, so you get a mold line running across the base. Later two piece molds however essentially had just the sides which came together sliding over a separate base section, so you don't get a mold line on the base. Hope you get what I mean?

Thanks for the kind comments.

earlyglass

earlyglasscollector · Nov 23, 2012

Sorry, forgot to say, I love the placename too. Bath is a tremendously historic town, originally popularised by the Romans and named after the baths they made there making use of the mineral springs etc naturally rising in the area. This carried on through to the 18th and early 19th C's (check out Jane Austens novels for genuine descriptions) and posh families would "take the waters" for their health, staying in Bath and having a great time with social entertainments, theatres, balls tours etc etc. Very evocative.
earlyglass

AntiqueMeds · Nov 23, 2012

The Historic Glass name of this forum section is a tribute to Bill Lindsey's website http://www.sha.org/bottle/
In the past people would post things here they wanted him to see.

Bath is a neat town , I went through there years ago.
I like the river bridge with the shops along it..

cowseatmaize · Nov 23, 2012

So it's not Bath, Maine? [

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] I figured someone used it before then.
Anyway, no worries on the category, just getting crazy. I had a not so great week.

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