Dr. Daniel's

[bostaurus]

I picked this one up the other day and just a bit different from the others. I need your thoughts on the mold. I have been going back and forth on it. I bought it thinking it was a blown bottle then, after it arrived I thought it was early machine made, then I put on my glasses and changed my mind again.

 

[bostaurus]

The seam goes up the neck and then ends on the bottom edge of the lip.

 

[bostaurus]

On the inside of the lip it a bit of a groove. the groove connects to nothing..those other lines are the reflection of the seams on the outside of the neck and lip.

 

[bostaurus]

Without my glasses I thought the bottom was like an early machine made bottle. With my glasses I could see it was perfectly round and there were seams coming from the side of the bottle.

 

[bostaurus]

Here is another angle. What do you think?

 

[tigue710]

Machine made. The lines on the underside and inside the lip are a dead giveaway. Also the base line is a machine scar...

 

[Wheelah23]

It has an "early machine-made" look to it. The base looks like a machine scar to me as well. Something about the embossing even looks like the early machine made bottles.

 

[bostaurus]

I was just wondering as I have never seen mold seams coming off the "machine scar" on the bottom.

 

[tigue710]

It's a strange one for sure... I had an apple green medicine as a kid that was the same shape and mold type, although unembossed, for years I thought it was blown. It wasn't until unpacking it later in life and going over it again that I realized it was was machine made. It was loaded with seed bubbles and whittled, actually one of my favorites as a kid...

 

[RIBottleguy]

It's a very early machine made bottle, definitely pre-1910. Not a rare bottle but probably uncommon with a mold like that. I have never seen an embossed ABM Dr. Daniels before.