Green (wine?) bottle

[NewbieBottleHunter]

I'm assuming that this light green bottle was likely used to hold wine as it looks much like a modern day wine bottle in size and shape. I know it is not a modern day wine bottle due to the applied finish. The lip shape is mostly a simple band and the very top edge of the lip is beveled at an angle. The "kick-up" in the bottom of this bottle is quite pronounced as it goes up around 2" in height. The center of this kick-up is what can only be described as a kick-down in that the very center is filled with a thick protuberance of glass. I cannot see any mold lines on this bottle so I'm not quite sure how it was made. Just below the shoulder there is what appears to be a very slight change in the thickness of the glass though it is angled and not where I have seen mold lines on my other bottles that were obviously made in 3-piece molds. I'm going to assume do to the lack of apparent mold lines that this bottle was made more recently (but still apparently pre-1900 given the applied finish).

The lack of mold lines and the extensive kick-up/down interest me and so I'm posting this bottle in an effort to learn more.


BTW: The white blob on the neck is an old dead coral skeleton from a colony that once grew on this bottle when it was not buried in mud.


-Newbie

 

[NewbieBottleHunter]

Here's the missing image:

 

[NewbieBottleHunter]

And one of the base showing the speaker cone looking shape of the deep funnel.

 

[cyberdigger]

Yeah that's pre 1900 for sure.. no mold seams in this case means it was turn-molded.. 1880 perhaps?

 

[NewbieBottleHunter]

Turn-molded - a new term for me to learn. Seems like a more advanced technique. Thanks for that.


-Newbie

 

[TROG]

This bottle would have held Brandy ( Cognac ) and dates around 1880 -1900