Help Identifying a couple of bottles

Welcome to our Antique Bottle community

Be a part of something great, join today!

Peter Boyd

Member
Joined
Feb 25, 2019
Messages
14
Reaction score
7
Points
3
I recently found a bottle while diving in Halifax Harbour, Nova Scotia. could anyone help to identify it. I am new to bottle collecting. It is olive green and has no markings about 9" tall, it looks like it was blown into a mold with an applied lip. it has what looks like very shallow flats on the side as if it set on its side while still hot . it is not very round. Thanks for your help
 

Attachments

  • old bottle1.jpg
    old bottle1.jpg
    34 KB · Views: 210
  • old bottle2.jpg
    old bottle2.jpg
    21.8 KB · Views: 274
  • old bottle3.jpg
    old bottle3.jpg
    35.7 KB · Views: 240
  • old bottle4.jpg
    old bottle4.jpg
    36.6 KB · Views: 261

RCO

Well-Known Member
Joined
May 17, 2012
Messages
4,905
Reaction score
2,204
Points
113
Location
Ontario , Canada
sounds like a neat location for diving , tough to determine the age of such a bottle but its likely been there for some time . I'd assume it was a liquor bottle and would of originally had a paper label saying what it was for
 

Peter Boyd

Member
Joined
Feb 25, 2019
Messages
14
Reaction score
7
Points
3
It is a great place to dive, I have found a lot of bottles, mostly pop bottles from the 1930's to present
 

saratogadriver

Well-Known Member
Joined
Sep 10, 2009
Messages
1,406
Reaction score
250
Points
83
Location
Vermont
Alcohol bottle, either beer or liquor of some sort. British or colonies. They were made in very basic and similar form over a long period of time from maybe 1850 or so to after 1900.

Jim G
 

Peter Boyd

Member
Joined
Feb 25, 2019
Messages
14
Reaction score
7
Points
3
I have a bunch, some local ones and some that I'm not sure where they are from.I will post some pictures tomorrow
 

RCO

Well-Known Member
Joined
May 17, 2012
Messages
4,905
Reaction score
2,204
Points
113
Location
Ontario , Canada
I have a book on Nova Scotia bottles it mostly covers older 1860's-1940's era but pretty extensive , interested in seeing what you found there
 

Huntindog

Well-Known Member
Joined
Aug 14, 2012
Messages
170
Reaction score
90
Points
28
Your dive site has some age to it... that's for sure.
We call them black glass ale bottles.
Most contained some sort of beer or ale.
They can be some of the oldest bottles found.
Made from the 1700's on.
Yours looks to be from the early to mid 1800's.
Cool find
 

Latest threads

Forum statistics

Threads
83,217
Messages
742,901
Members
24,231
Latest member
rrenzi
Top