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They are so pretty in person! They stand 14 1/2" tall! Several still have some of the cork. Are they some type of water bottle? Soda? Help! :confused:
 

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They're general purpose bottles, they could have had anything in them really. They look like they date to the turn of the 20th century. If they have corks in them they were likely used by someone who was bottling something at home, as those bottles should have had regular bottle caps, not corks.
 

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Thank you!!!! :) They do have corks in them!! My father had them placed/packed with his soda and mineral water bottles, so that's why I thought it could be one of those!
 

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Thank you, Jim! Do you have any idea how old they are or the value?
 

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Probably made in the 1940 - 60 era, they have minimal collector value but decorators or such individuals might give $5- $10. They are quite generic without the embossing that tells us about the user / seller / merchant.
 

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They appear to have hand-tooled tops, which if American should make them pre-1920. But their colour and large size is odd for such an old American bottle, so I wonder if they might not be American, and could be closer to the 1940s for less industrialised glass-making facilities in other countries.
 

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Thank you!!! That is what I was confused about, and of course what the bottles were used for in the first place!! I had read online that those tops would have been before the 1920's. This was my father's collection, and he had them packed with his soda/mineral water bottles, so that's what I assumed they were!!
 

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In America, the last tooled-top bottles were made in about 1925 as far as I know, and that's rare. By 1920 most plants had switched to the machines that do the work more efficiently and quickly than a three-man team. Without labels or embossing to give us any further researching information, though, we cannot say much beyond that without going into deeper speculation.
 

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