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Hello. I'm new to this and have been searching/collecting for about a year now. I remembered i got a small box of old bottles out of my grandparents shed years ago and have never went through them. Several were not that old but found a couple older bottom embossed bottles I was able to find out about online. But there were two that had no embossing. One is molded with the seam line stopping 3/4 up the neck like the two embossed ones. The other is hand-blown I assume. Green bottle with no line. The bottom is not level nor the lip. Crudely made. Was wondering age. Lots of scratches. Like this one was found in creek? Thanks
 

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CanadianBottles

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They're all hand blown bottles and all probably date to around the turn of the 20th century, give or take a couple decades. The green bottle is indeed a champagne although I wouldn't date it to anywhere near the 1850s. They remained in that style, and hand-blown, up until around the 20s or so. The European glasshouses where these were made tended to take longer to switch over to more modern glassmaking techniques. The other I think is a malt beer.
 

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The bottle with W F & S Mil is a William Franzen and Son Bottle. They were bottlers in Milwaukee from 1900-1929.
I think maybe the 18 in the center is for the year 1918.

As found on pg's 597-597 in the book "Bottle Makers and their marks" by Julian Harrison Toulouse
 

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The bottle with W F & S Mil is a William Franzen and Son Bottle. They were bottlers in Milwaukee from 1900-1929.
I think maybe the 18 in the center is for the year 1918.

As found on pg's 597-597 in the book "Bottle Makers and their marks" by Julian Harrison Toulouse
Thanks. It's a nice bottle. Wish it was embossed on the sides
 

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