Early 1900s bottle with a metal tube inserted thru its side. Anyone ever seen this before.

[Estatebottle]

Hello everyone. A new member asking for some help with a oddball bottle. From a local estate this bottle was said to have been dug up in San Francisco many years ago. Dark green glass about 9 1/2 inches tall. No mold lines noted on the bottle and no markings at all. What makes this odd is that there is about a 1/4" steel or iron hollow tube inserted into the side of the bottle at about a 20 degree upward angle about 1/2 way up the side. The outside portion of the tube is pretty much flush with the outside surface of the bottle but it projects about 1 1/2" into the bottle. It was done very neatly. A little chipping around the hole noted. Can't tell if its caulked as it rusted around the tube where it enters the bottle. My pictures are not very clear but I can try some more if necessary. Any ideas on why this was done would be greatly appreciated. Maybe for smoking?

 

[botlguy]

The pictures are definitely inadequate to tell anything. Sorry! Jim

 

[Estatebottle]

How about these?

 

[sunrunner]

it's a 1890s to 1918 mineral water bottle. not to collectable.

 

[cowseatmaize]

Hello and welcome,I'd like an even closer look but from what I see and the fractures around it I'd guess it was just an incredibly lucky mishap strike with some metal object. Not intentional at manufacture anyway.That and the mineral water thing.

 

[Estatebottle]

Thanks for the input. Greatly apreciated