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IslandJoe

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A couple more photos of the bottom. Sorry for the delay!
 

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A couple more photos of the bottom. Sorry for the delay!
Thank you for the clear base pics! I'm going to respectfully disagree with what SPC stated earlier in the thread-your bottle dates between the late 1880's and the early 1900's. Here's a few bottles dating from roughly the same era of yours that I have in my collection- an Old Dr. Solomon's Rheumatic Drops and Dr. Daniel's Carbo-Necus (it's far more present in the Solomon's):
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This seems to be a very common base distortion that if I were to guess is caused by some form of rapid expansion and/or cooling of the hot glass as it's blown into the mold, something I only see on 1880's-onward bottles with tooled lips. There were big improvements adopted into bottle blowing technology in the 1880's, mainly a new method for crafting the lip of a bottle ("tooled lip") and the inclusion of tiny mold ventilation holes for rapid cooling; the former and oftentimes the latter coincide with the wavy base markings like your example has. Your bottle also possesses mold air venting marks, see the little pinhead sized bumps on the base? That's them! Here's another bottle I own with the concentric ring pattern and the ventilation marks:
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Polished pontil marks do indeed exist, but on antique bottles the technique is often only employed on more expensive glassware- barber bottles, fancy backbar whiskey pieces, lead crystal decanters, etc. As far as I'm aware, a bottle with a tooled lip will never possess a pontil mark as it would serve no purpose due to the tooling improvement allowing a lip to be formed without adding any additional molten glass, whereas the point of enpontiling is so the assistant glassblower can hold a nearly finished bottle still, affixed to a glass-dipped pontil rod, while the primary glassblower (gaffer) crafts the lip and adds any finishing touches.

Hopefully this helps, I apologize if my wording is a bit hard to follow!
 

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