Green Round Bottom

[ohyesitslizz]

Me and my brother found this bottle buried in a river under a bridge in Harpers Ferry Virginia. Only the very bottom of the bottle was visible about the mud and took us almost 30 minutes to dig up. There is a seam going around the bottom of the bottle that stops at the bottom of the lip. The lip also apears to have been attached seperatly. The glass is a very pale green colour( its kinda hard to tell in the picture because of the dirt). Any help identifing this bottle would be amazing. Thanks

 

[old.s.bottles]

I don't know if I've ever seen a round bottom bottle with a crown top which that appears to be. If the seam stops before the lip it is late 1800's early 1900's. The round bottoms were used so they would have to be stored sideways, preventing the cork from drying out and the contents to evaporate.

And welcome to the forum!

 

[epackage]

These were also used for Balast and millions were tossed overboard, always fun to find round bottoms in my opinion...Jim

 

[peejrey]

I can't say that there totally rare but I have 8 of them. They most likely contained Ale. Maybe Ginger ale but i'm not for sure. You have one of the crown top bottles. I have 2 other combinations a blob top and tooled. one even has embossing.

 

[peejrey]

Crown tops, tooled tops, and one blob top

 

[daltonbottles]

Any "applied" crown top is a relatively scarce bottle as they were made for a much shorter period of time than earlier blob/Hutchinson/gravity stopper tops or the later tooled or machine crowns. Many of the applied crown top bottles are of British or European origin. American made applied crowns are very scarce.

 

[MedBottle1]

There was an antique store up town selling a round bottle identical to the one in the picture. No price on it but I would bget he would take $5 for it.