Free blown bottle

[woody]

Here's a little beauty I dug,( still need to clean better), of a free blown open pontil.
If you notice there are no mold seams on the bottle.
I estimate this bottle to be made from the early to mid 1800's from the other bottles that were in the dump.
Probably blown at the Keene Glassworks in Keene, New Hampshire or in Suncook, N.H.

 

[woody]

Here's a picture of the base.
Dirt and all.

 

[Harry Pristis]

Nice find, Woody!

I love these little bottles. Isn't that a rolled lip on your bottle?

Aren't these called "puffs"? I seem to recall reading that the term derives from the fact that one puff was all that it took to blow the bottle. I see that term in digging articles in OBGC magazine.

Here's the bottle on my shelf closest to yours -- freeblown, pontil-scarred, flared lip, and 3.5" tall.

----------Harry Pristis

 

[woody]

Mine has a "flared lip", Harry.
The dump I was digging had literally dozens of these pontiled bottles in them, although almost all were broken because they are so thin of a glass.
Usually, when you find these flared lip bottles, they are chipped on the lip.
I got lucky on this one.