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More like a bottlette... "L. W. H." is all it says. Lip, albeit quite tiny, feels and looks applied. Table I got it from had pontils for the most part (bottle show.) Smooth base-- no number, letter, dot, etc. Ice-aqua blue. Lots of bubbles. About 2 inches tall-- just a bit over; also just a bit under 1-inch base. So what is it, and when's it from? My guess has been 1890s for the most part, but I really have no idea.
 

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What I still have no idea but it looks like early machine made. 1899-1903 or so type. Those aren't the best pic's you've taken, no offense.
 

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cowseatmaize said:
What I still have no idea but it looks like early machine made. 1899-1903 or so type. Those aren't the best pic's you've taken, no offense.
There is no seam that I can see-- especially not on the neck. Is there a different kind of machine to do that? Or do you mean partial-machine-made? All the early 1900s bottles I see-- of this size-- have a number or two, a letter, or even a dot on the base.
I have a tremor-issue that renders an already low-quality camera's picture even worse. It comes and goes, but it's usually here. The camera also has dust on the inside, and I don't want to damage it by trying to clean it. So, essentially, most photos turn out blurry.
Nonetheless, large-subject photos turn out well (Comparatively, as I must agree my pictures are ****.)
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Recall this photo? Or this?
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A bit blurred, but niceish. Lake Harbor Park, last year.
 

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It's embossed so it has to have seams, otherwise it couldn't even be made. Well it could be made, just not removed in one piece.
 

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the seams are on the corners , and with something that small the way that they would have to apply the lip would erase the seams on the neck .
 

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It's hard to tell. A good closeup of the lip without the weird background every time would be helpful, that or send the bottle to me. [:)]I think I can see a circumference seam on the lip and that's one reason why I think old machine.
 

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SunRunner, thank you. [:)]Eric, you wish. [8D]When I look at it, it's slightly uneven. When I feel it, it feels like it was applied. I just barely squeeze a pinkie in. For now, I have no other pics of it. The weird background is a lovely volume of bound journals from 1870. [:D] Thanks for the responses!
 

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Spirit Bear said:
Doesn't he do under half an inch?
No such bottle that I know of there. He does like the half ounces though.Come to think of it, I haven't seen him post in about a week. Maybe he's out on the road.
 

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