1870s/1880s bottles I don't know much about.

[luckiest]

Heres a coffee essence bottle I have, I don't usually keep these kinds of bottles but this one caught my fancy. It's pretty crude and came out of the black slime under a 1880's dump in an old river bed.

 

[luckiest]

Here's another bottle in a form I usually leave behind, but they don't all have embossing on them, this one came from a 1870s privy.

 

[luckiest]

This is one that's tough to photograph. fun to dig though, it's scalloped all around. first one of these I have seen.

 

[RED Matthews]

Thank you luckies: For showing us your bottle. It looks like a good one. When you show us something like this - it helps to know the number of vertical panels (It looks like there might be eight). It is also helpful to us if you show the embossing by listing each panels content "/ T & H SMITH " etc. as the embossed information proceeds around the bottle. It also is meaningful to show an angular picture of the finish and a straight shot of the bottom. The finish picture will tell us more about the structure, if applied and/or if there are tooling marks and sometimes sloppy glass left under the tooled finish. The bottom shot might have a bottle makers mark, or identify the glass house, or show a pontil if one was used and also what type of empontilling method was used.
When I pick up a bottle I let it talk to me and tell me how it was made, maybe about when it was made - etc. etc. etc. This is just covered because I like what I see in old glass items, and I am always looking for new bottle mysteries.
Thanks RED Matthews

 

[botlguy]

I never have been much attracted to non-U.S.A. bottles for my personal collection but I sure like the looks of these and many others. I really like the ESSENCE OF COFFEE for the unusual wording, I have a side collection of those going.

Thanks for sharing.

 

[JOETHECROW]

I'd be proud to dig any of those..Very cool.

 

[tftfan]

OH..YA... nice for sure !

ORIGINAL: JOETHECROW

I'd be proud to dig any of those..Very cool.

 

[epackage]

The J.H. Brough is a Salt Jar, great looking bottle...