Help with age Please.

[dollarbill]

Hey all got this cruet today and was hoping to get a little info on it .I belive its pontiled to . Thanks for looking.

 

[dollarbill]

Heres a pic of the bottom . Thanks agian all.bill

 

[dollarbill]

Heres another shot of the bottom

 

[dollarbill]

Top,Thanks for looken .bill

 

[dollarbill]

Bump .Hey all was hoping some one could tell me an age on this one did it come with a product in it or was it part of a set . I have notice that it has 4 mold lines and a very deep kick up with what seems to be a pontil mark . Thanks for any help .bill

 

[tncgal]

Bill, I've searched for the maker of your EAPG (Early American Pattern Glass) hobnail cruet but can't find a definite manufacturer. Everyone seems to have produced hobnail, at one time or another. The closest I could find was US Glass, early 1900's or Doyle, late 1880's. Yours is missing the hobnail stopper, of course.

Also, the bottom called "Cut Shut."
This is a process where a piece like a cruet or a water bottle is pressed, with the neck down in the mold. When it comes from the mold, it looks like a funnel. The gaffer picks up the piece in a snap, warms in the bottom and shapes it with a paddle then with a tool like a large tweezer he pinches the bottom shut and cuts off the excess. Unless the bottom is flat, he then makes it slightly concave. This process leaves a swirl mark on the bottom, often called a pontil or a soft pontil, but is not a true pontil mark. This is also called Cut and Shut.

 

[dollarbill]

Hey thanks so much for the info tncgal .My Aunt gave me the piece. I figured it was missing a stopper. Thanks agian . bill