Any thoughts on this bottle?

[Mjbottle]

I was hoping someone could shed some light on this one for me. I have what looks to be a wine bottle that i have always myself dated to around 1900+.i was wondering if i was correct.it is light green with an aplied lip ring,beveled lip, kick up base with a nipple in the middle,no mold seams and the only 2 bubbles i can see are in the kick up base.if it helps any, i found it in a dump that the only other bottles i found were made in england.

 

[Troutmaster08]

French Bordeaux bottle with a recessed base for the sediment probably from around 1880 to 1910.

 

[embe]

For the sediment? That actually makes a lot of sense. I learned this was called a kick-up but hadn't thought of the practicality of this design.

 

[sandchip]

I've found several of those in the creek through the years, also in olive green, that I always dated to turn of the century as well.

 

[Harry Pristis]

For the sediment? That actually makes a lot of sense. I learned this was called a kick-up but hadn't thought of the practicality of this design.

"Sediment trap" is just one of several theories on the origin of the kick-up. It evolved into a standard French form without much trapping utility by the late date of this bottle.

For much of the 19th Century, bottle volume was not standardized. Some bottles were blown to a standard exterior size, but were given an out-size kick-up to reduce the actual volume of wine. These were known as "cheat bottles." It's a form of marketing not too dissimilar from modern oversized packaging.

 

[treeguyfred]

Harry nailed it on this one... and I have also read that the kick-up base was intended to assist in quick cooling -the bottle stuffed into a bucket of ice would allow a large volume of ice to contact a greater surface area of the bottle...