NewbieBottleHunter
Active Member
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
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