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tropichahni

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I have a bottle here that I can find many examples of it online but can't find it in this state. It is a Bromo Seltzer bottle and the embossed letters have these bumps in each letter. Can someone please explain why they are there? Is this an indication of the age of the bottle? The mold line does not extend to the top so it appears to be an applied finish. I have another bottle from the same company with an applied finish but it doesn't have these bubbles in the lettering.
 

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Those are where vent holes were drilled through the mold halves so that air inside the mold could escape as the "bubble" of glass was blown into the mold.
 

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Oh, you asked about dating. This feature is normally seen toward the end of the 1800s, right before the ABM was invented, which had a vacuum to pull the air out of the mold as the bottle was blown.
 

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