Malta torpedo bottle

skif · Feb 28, 2013

Hi!

Found this torpedo-hamilton bottle in Sevastopol/Crimea at English camp sight of Crimean War ( 1854-56) period. Most interesting - Malta manufactured. How rare and valuable it is? Thanks!

https://picasaweb.google.com/skifffiya/Bottle#5849920218099411042

cowseatmaize · Feb 28, 2013

Hi back and welcome.
George who on the bottle? I got the rest.

skif · Feb 28, 2013

Obviously George Grant but not sure ( Gra... ) . I'll know in the nearest days, the bottle is not with me now [

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TROG · Feb 28, 2013

Hi.
This bottle is definitely from the time period mentioned and was from an aerated water manufacturer in Malta and would probably have been acquired as part of stores from a passing English ship on the way to the Crimean War. This bottle does not have a lot of value(maybe $50 )but is interesting in that it is not from the usual English Empire Countries.

skif · Feb 28, 2013

Thanks for input[sm=thumbup1.gif]

cowseatmaize · Feb 28, 2013

Obviously George Grant but not sure ( Gra... )

Obvious to some maybe but if you spell it out or take a guess it would be a lot simpler. I had Malta and a few pictures to go on.

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skif · Feb 28, 2013

Actually I've spend a couple of days with google and various catalogues from abcrauctions.com, trying to find same torpedo bottle but nothing with "Malta" at all. No even similar from this country in the net.

skif · Feb 28, 2013

George Grant

Malta

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Malta is a small country and maltese bottles should be interesting [sm=thumbup1.gif]

BeachComber · Feb 28, 2013

Hi Skif,

There are definitely a lot of Maltese bottles out there. There is a small bottle museum located near Nice in the South of France (a small place called Menton) where they have many Maltese Codds, torpedos and other bottles like yours on display. They found them while rebuilding a Port in Nice. I imagine ships from Malta to Nice threw their trash overboard.

I am from Bermuda and have also found several Malta bottles here such as the Atkinson's Malta torpedo bottle and a few beer bottles from Malta (see pictures). Like Trog says, not much value but still very cool! I think the Maltese bottle market is low at the moment! I could be wrong though!!!!

BeachComber · Feb 28, 2013

The Malta Beer bottle. It is interesting that this bottle also has UK cities on it!

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