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Robby Raccoon

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Today I drove over an hour out of town and found a few antique stores, including one along a dirt road (link is of it).
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At the aforementioned location I found this incredibly crude machine-made bottle.
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The bottle is full of bubbles, my guess being that the feeder was picking up air from a low tank of liquid glass.
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The seams are pronounced, peaking at one point to a sharp little point.
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The base seems stretched and smeared somewhat and does not sit flat. Glass is heavier on one side than another.

Over all, a poorly made ABM bottle, likely not American.
 

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It is hard to tell whether the seeding was purposely injected in the bottle to make it look old OR it is an early ABM (1920s).
It is actually cool looking. Seeding gives character.
 

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Definitely early ABM and British.
 

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BottleRocket, there were three others, all of which were made much better than this one. The worst on the others would be unstable bases. She also had many other bottles from the '10s and '20s, including bitters, an embalming fluid, beer/pop, etc.

NhPharm, thank you.
 

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Embalming Fluids are very collectable and those who are into "oddities" will pay high dollars for these. Especially labeled ones.
 

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Sadly this one is stained, is a machine-made crown, and is without label. But it is from Grand Rapids, Mich.
 

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Your crude ABM looks very similar to the embossed sodas from that era we find around here in Eastern Ontario and Quebec, although none are ever that crude. Definitely looks British to me as well, I'm not sure why the bottles they made over there were so much more crude than over here but bottles had definitely stopped looking like that by the time that we were making ABM bottles in North America.
 

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The British were up to 30 years behind the Americans in glass-making, in some cases. Typically only 10-20. This was the product of an accident, though, in that something went wrong that typically didn't go wrong.
 

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in actual fact the English had semi automatic bottle machines around the same time we did . but they had a strong glass blowers union and made hand made bottles will into the 1920s.
 

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By "behind", I meant a full switch-over. Many countries in the '10s and '20s had bottle machines, but old trades die hard.
 

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