Applied top lotion bottle

[bottlerocket]

I went to the dump today and found what I believe is a lotion or shoe polish cork bottle.
It definately has an applied top. Real cool looking swirl pattern where they smoothed the top after application.
It has 3 OZ embossed near the top.
How far off am I because this is just a guess as to its contents.
I am thinking pre 1920?

 

[CanadianBottles]

Are you sure it's an applied top? Contents weren't usually embossed on bottles in applied top days. It must be a really late one if it is. Pre-1920 is probably right, but I doubt it's much older than 1900.

 

[bottlerocket]

It definately looks applied to the untrained eye that is. It has the vertical stretch marks under the lip and also the horizontal marks that look like a smoothing process. The seams fall short about an inch from the lip. I could be way off on this so I am open to what process was used to attach the top.

 

[sandchip]

Really hard to tell but it looks like a tooled top to me.

 

[bottlerocket]

I believe you are right chip. It does looked more like a tooled after visiting a site on bottle top types. My bad.

 

[bottlerocket]

Good eye both of you. A learned something new today. Thanks

 

[cowseatmaize]

I'd call it hand finished myself. Even applied lips get tooled. Heck, if you call fire a tool in the lip finish then all but the burst tops are tooled.Hmm, even then a tool is used to break it off. [8|][] It's not machine made anyway. I think that's the point.

 

[sunrunner]

some perfume and small meds were had finished in to the early 1920s.