SODABOB
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Update ...
I went back to where I found the green King's bottle and saved an image of the base - which was so dark when I first saw it that I couldn't see any marks. However, I highlighted it and discovered that its marked with ...
VE
The VE stands for Vetreria Etrusca - which was a glass works located in Italy. They also made some of the early Vichy bottles. Vichy was located in France and goes back to the 1800s. Unfortunately, neither I or the Bottle Research Group I belong to know how to accurately date VE bottles - mainly because they are foreign - which gets kind of confusing. Just about the only way to approximate when a VE bottle was made is to determine if the bottle is hand-blown or machine made. At the moment I'm not sure if the King's bottle is machine made or hand-blown. All I know with relative certainty is that some of the VE bottles are possibly pre-1900. Of course, there is also the possibility that the paper label is not original to the bottle - that some wazoo just stuck on it.
King's Beer Base
King's Beer Crown Finish
Vichy Bottle Date Unknown
Vichy Bottle Base w/VE
I went back to where I found the green King's bottle and saved an image of the base - which was so dark when I first saw it that I couldn't see any marks. However, I highlighted it and discovered that its marked with ...
VE
The VE stands for Vetreria Etrusca - which was a glass works located in Italy. They also made some of the early Vichy bottles. Vichy was located in France and goes back to the 1800s. Unfortunately, neither I or the Bottle Research Group I belong to know how to accurately date VE bottles - mainly because they are foreign - which gets kind of confusing. Just about the only way to approximate when a VE bottle was made is to determine if the bottle is hand-blown or machine made. At the moment I'm not sure if the King's bottle is machine made or hand-blown. All I know with relative certainty is that some of the VE bottles are possibly pre-1900. Of course, there is also the possibility that the paper label is not original to the bottle - that some wazoo just stuck on it.
King's Beer Base
King's Beer Crown Finish
Vichy Bottle Date Unknown
Vichy Bottle Base w/VE