Champagne bottles

[Logan]

I’m finding a few of these hand blown bottles I believe are champagne bottles. Wonder if these would be 1800’s bottles? They don’t have any mold lines and have applied tops. They also stand off kilter.

 

[CanadianBottles]

Welcome to the forum! Yes they're champagne bottles, and probably date to the 19th or early 20th century.

 

[NC btl-dvr]

I've always called them "Hock Wine" bottles.

 

[Logan]

I've always called them "Hock Wine" bottles.

So is this a maker’s name or the style of bottle? I’ve been finding quite a few of them. Are they worth collecting?

 

[Harry Pristis]

I've always called them "Hock Wine" bottles.

Not hock [tall/high] wine bottles.

 

[Logan]

Not hock [tall/high] wine bottles.

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The body style looks more like burgundy bottle.

 

[nhpharm]

They were (in my experience) a "general use" bottle used for everything from alcohol to household cleaners and so forth and appear to date from the 1880's through the early 1920's. I've seen crates and crates of them in basements in New Hampshire, which makes me think people probably used them to bottle cider and things like that as well. They are extremely common, practically indestructible, and also unfortunately practically unsellable. Yours with the sea growth might have a bit of a market but I honestly leave them in the hole when I dig them. Hock wine bottles are taller and skinnier than these and do not have as much of a kick up.

 

[Logan]

They were (in my experience) a "general use" bottle used for everything from alcohol to household cleaners and so forth and appear to date from the 1880's through the early 1920's. I've seen crates and crates of them in basements in New Hampshire, which makes me think people probably used them to bottle cider and things like that as well. They are extremely common, practically indestructible, and also unfortunately practically unsellable. Yours with the sea growth might have a bit of a market but I honestly leave them in the hole when I dig them. Hock wine bottles are taller and skinnier than these and do not have as much of a kick up.

Thank you for the info. These are absolute tanks which is probably why I find so many. They age well in the sea floor.

 

[east texas terry]

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The body style looks more like burgundy bottle.

THEY LOOK REAL NICE WHEN THEY ARE CLEAN UP THEY WILL LOOK REAL GOOD ON DISPLAY LOT OF THE PUBLIC HAS NEVER BOTTLE LIKE YOU DUG. US DIGGER LIKE YOU ARE SAVEING HISTORY ONE BOTTLE AT A TIME KEEP IT UP

 

[Logan]

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THEY LOOK REAL NICE WHEN THEY ARE CLEAN UP THEY WILL LOOK REAL GOOD ON DISPLAY LOT OF THE PUBLIC HAS NEVER BOTTLE LIKE YOU DUG. US DIGGER LIKE YOU ARE SAVEING HISTORY ONE BOTTLE AT A TIME KEEP IT UP

One bottle at a time! So much fun hunting for glass.