Free-blown piece, can you guys help ?

[Calico]

Hi Board !
I could use some help IDing this free blown bottle. It's about 4" high with a globular shape and flared lip. A few scattered bubbles and a nice tilted slant.
Push-up OP on the base with some legitimate base wear. It "feels" like old glass, if you know what I mean ?
What do you think, a newer piece from Mexico or a nice old free blown piece ?

 

[Calico]

Here's the base.

 

[capsoda]

It doesn't have enough bubbles and no crap in the glass to be that artsy crap and the color is to plane to be modern but the ponyil is kinda odd.

 

[Calico]

It's a strange one and has got me stumped.
There's a thickening on base on one side where the glass has pooled a bit and developed a pumpkin-like appearance (with the sections).

 

[southern Maine diver]

Hey Cap...


I don't see any base wear on this one and that pontil looks too perfect... don't you think???

I don't know about this one... with the swirl, it kinda resembles a mid-western, but man, I don't know. Hope we don't discourage Calico...[:-]

Wayne

 

[capsoda]

Its just that the pontil rod looks like it was solid. I think that is a 20th century thing.

 

[Calico]

Diver, don't worry about discouraging me, that's why I come here, to get the truth from the experts.[]
I can try to get a better picture of the base tomorrow in the sunlight, if you think that will help.

 

[kungfufighter]

Sorry to say that Warren is almost certainly correct (not sorry for Warren, of course, but rather for Calico) in ascribing 20th century production. There is a CHANCE (albeit a slight one) that the bottle is 18th/19th century and European but it is definitely not an American made piece from the 19th century. Seems like something Calico might want to hang onto and bring to a bottle show so that somebody could make a more definite assessment. (In that it is far, far easier to make a decision of this sort with the piece in hand.) I am personally nearly certain that it is "not old" (i.e. 19th century or earlier) but I have not seen anything exactly like this piece and thus my hesitancy in dismissing it...

 

[bttlmark]

Grasshopper know his bottles,,,looks new to me too .................

 

[Calico]

Thank you for all the help !

You guys are the BEST !