Any info on old bottle

[Kheidecker]

Looks like a three piece mold.a dark olive color.looks like a( B 6) on bottom

 

[bottlebuddy]

Looks like a three piece mold.a dark olive color.looks like a( B 6) on bottom

Hey Kheidecker, welcome to the Forum. That looks to me like it may very well be a three piece mold bottle, (from what I can see of it) but it is definitely what is known as "Black Glass" which appears black until held up to light then shows to be a dark olive as you have noticed. More than likely a bitters bottle. Cool bottle, thanx for sharing & welcome to this fantastic world of antique bottle & fruit jar collecting!!

 

[seniorscuba1]

yes it is a black glass 3 piece cup mold ale bottle late 19th early 20th century

 

[Harry Pristis]

It's a common ale bottle, as seniorscuba1 says. The only thing mysterious about such bottles is which glasshouses produced them, or if some of them were imported.

 

[seniorscuba1]

Hi the ale bottle in the picture I posted was found on the scattered remains of an old steam salvage ship that was run down and sunk in halifax harbour in 1906 . it gives us a date that we can use . i believe these were used until the use of the automatic filler and capper came into use I believe sometime shortly after WWI, I worked on a production line in the late 70'S where I worked on the 10 oz returnable pop bottle line the same gear that beer bottles were filled and capped . and since the line I worked on was old even than I believe it was the thing that replaced these bottles

 

[seniorscuba1]

It's a common ale bottle, as seniorscuba1 says. The only thing mysterious about such bottles is which glasshouses produced them, or if some of them were imported.

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I had quite a few of these bottles and I was downsizing. We were moving into an apartment . (I was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 2007 ) so by 2010 we had to sell the house .I was disabled and on a pension .. anyway while going through the boxes of bottles i found in 30 years of diving i found I had dozens of these, so while i was still able to dive i bagged up a dozen or more of these ale bottles and went to my favorite bottle dive site and spent about 30 or 40 minutes doing a reverse bottle dive we swam around the bay and put them back in the water .not just dumping them in a heap on the bottom but stashing them behind rocks and burying some with a bit of the top showing so another generation of divers could sense the thrill of finding a 100 year old bottle and maybe get bit by the bottle bug