Glassman post a pic of your Turlington bottle...Please

[Steve/sewell]

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[Ohiosulator]

Neat post!

I thought I would add that I have a pretty crude scroll quart with large circular markings like these as well on the front and back in the same place. Neat to see other bottles with this feature.

 

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[glass man]

WOW!Cool stuff..with the rings on different bottles!

Thanks to you STEVE and RED..I would really have thought nothing of the ring ....vent hole or repair?Good topic to research or really a guess..cause so long ago we might not really know...

I wonder if the ring on mine would make sense that the embossing it so weak on that side...and maybe if it was a repair if that is why even though the embossing is strong on the opposite side of the bottle it is so very hard to read it?In fact even with a magnifying glass it can't be read...if it was not for the very known shape of a "TURLINGTON" you would not know what it was..except an old bottle with embossing on it that can not be read!

I wonder if that takes away from the value?Hate to get into that..but just curious...

I am so proud to have it..it is one of four O.P. bottles I won't sell..till I have too....The guy wanted 30 dollars for it...it was the end of the bottle show when all were packing up that I even noticed it close to my table..I asked him if he would take 25 dollars for it and he said sure...so I bought it...

Also if it is a vent hole would that too make a difference in the hard to read embossing?I am sure people back then may have known the bottle and it's shape as well as many of us do now,,so embossing was not that important..maybe?

This brings up another point...was there ever a copy cat of this med.?A med. that also had the same shape?I know of none...usually if anything was popular then ...many others would imitate it..like COKE... and many other products...THANKS AGAIN!JAMIE

 

[Steve/sewell]

Neat questions you pose Jamie,why would anyone care ,it was the medicine they were concerned with that apparently worked because people spent quite a bit of money on these for well over 150 years. So yes maybe coupled with the fact that a paper wrapper encircled each one of these what type of person back then would have been concerned with a vent or mold repair mark in a bottle as you stated with a long time brand name and a well known shape. It reminds me of this well known shape its changed over time but a majority percent of our population could place a name on this car with out to much trouble and knows of it prowess.

These are great bottles one of the most unique and recognized shapes in our hobby,they are crude yet intriguing ,small but larger then a plain vial,they have the most embossing one could ever cram onto any small space on each side and they don't take up a lot of real estate in your display cabinets.Again Jamie congrats to you and now with the help of yourself, Roaddog and Ohioinsulator we have given Red a bottle mystery to chew on maybe more of these bottles will be posted here now with this mold mark.

 

[glass man]

I THANK YOU AGAIN STEVE AND ALL...the knowledge on here that can be gained in such a short time would take me years ..I don't probably have..to learn about bottles..what a great thing and place to come to...I am so blessed to have found this forum and all you people that share so unselfishly what you know...WOW!!MAYBE I CAN NOW BE LUCKY ENOUGH TO FIND ONE OF THE CARS YOU HAVE POSTED FOR 25 dollars!!JAMIE

 

[sandchip]

First off, I apologize for the picture quality, but it's there and hard to capture. A circular mark about a half inch in diameter just above the "C" in Clarke. I'm dang near positive that my two L&Cs were blown into the same, although reworked molds, with the wide-mouth example being the earlier of the two. I've compared every detail of each letter, the size, stroke, spacing and distance from the mold lines, and they seem to be identical. The med-top's impression shows signs that the mold was becoming worn and pitted from use. About 2/3 of the way up and around the shoulder is a faint feature where it appears that the mold was filled from there up the neck to narrow the neck diameter. All I can figure is that maybe, from the repeated impact of the hot glass, the molds of the bottles shown in this thread scaled or even developed pocks from some flaw in casting, like an air bubble or foreign material which popped out from repeated heating and metal fatigue in that spot, after which the mold was drilled and filled in that spot and returned to use. However, this is just the humble opinion of an old letterhead.

 

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[Steve/sewell]

Got to get to work but nice read Jamie if you find a vette for 25 dollars don't tell anyone[8D]and Jim good theory makes a lot of sense I hope to see more of these types of markings from other contributors.Those are great bottles by the way thanks for posting them and I can see the mark clearly on your second picture.