ACLbottles
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I picked this up this somewhat unusual bottle today that I'm looking for more information on. When I first saw it, I thought it might be a fairly modern bottle, but it appears to have some real age to it. It appears to have an applied top with a ring around it. It's not quite an amber color; it looks to be more puce than amber. None of my pictures do a great job of showing the bottle's true color; they make it look more amber than it really is. It resembles an earlier shaft and globe style bottle with a round body and a long neck. The base is smooth and is very weakly embossed with what looks like B B & Co (which would indicate that it was made by the Baltimore Glass Works from 1852-1905). I tried to capture this in the pictures, but it's so weakly embossed that it's tough to say for sure what it says. The only other embossing at all is the words "Vinegar Bottle" on the front in a downward arch. It's only around 5 1/4" tall and 3 inches across at its widest point. Has anybody seen one of these bottles before? Can anyone tell me anything about it? I took plenty of pictures in an attempt to show its color. It's a really cool bottle! Thanks for anything!
