Help identifying bottle

[AdamMann]

Hi everyone and thank you for the add! I'm hoping to get a little help identifying a bottle we found while snorkeling in the lake. It's a torpedo bottle, slightly aqua in color and has a few bubbles in the glass which suggests to me that it's older. Also has a K embossed closer to the bottom. A little backstory to the area I live, I'm in amherstburg Ontario and the lake where we found the bottle was an area for war back in 1812.

 

[forro]

it looks like a late 18 hundreds to turn of the century tear shaped torpedo bottle. they were usually use to hold mineral waters and were round bottomed so the cork would stay moist when laid on its side. They were often used as ballast in ships hulls and are not uncommon, but still a great find and a fun conversation piece.

 

[UnderMiner]

Here is my favorite depiction of torpedo bottles in history. Two paintings by William Trood made in 1887 (should give you some context as to the age of the one you found). They shows the explosive uncorking of a torpedo bottle by a mischievous puppy. The second painting is entitled "A Suprising Result".

And here is an apparatus that torpedoe bottles fit into back in the day, note the date written on the bottom corner: