Is this an onion bottle? What can you tell me about it...

[ACLbottles]

I would offer up my opinion but unfortunately I know nothing about bottles like these... I'm more of a soda guy. It's a nice looking bottle though!

 

[hemihampton]

I would offer up my opinion but unfortunately I know nothing about bottles like these... I'm more of a soda guy. It's a nice looking bottle though!

I agree with this. Ditto. LEON.

 

[jschaeffer]

Thank you guys for the info. Im sure its tough...this bottle was from a guy who did lots of digging in his life, primarily he looked for civil war era items.

This bottle does appear to have 2 semi seams on the ovoid portion of the bottle. Maybe I can add more photos if it would help.

 

[jschaeffer]

Thank you guys for the info. Im sure its tough...this bottle was from a guy who did lots of digging in his life, primarily he looked for civil war era items.

This bottle does appear to have 2 semi seams on the ovoid portion of the bottle. Maybe I can add more photos if it would help.

 

[jschaeffer]

The lip of the bottle. ..if I place my finger in the top it is a smaller then down further past the lip...it does appear it was added to the neck/ 2 seperate pieces.

And in the one photo please note the seam...there is another on the other side of the bottle.

 

[Harry Pristis]

The lip of the bottle. ..if I place my finger in the top it is a smaller then down further past the lip...it does appear it was added to the neck/ 2 seperate pieces.

And in the one photo please note the seam...there is another on the other side of the bottle.

Don't tease us, JSC, show us what you mean about the neck of the bottle. How about an image straight down the throat.

 

[jschaeffer]

Pretty hard to get a photo of the transition from the lip to the thought of the bottle. Also I think I said previously 10"...the bottle is jyst under 8" tall.

 

[sandchip]

Looks American to me. It reminds me of a Forest Lawn whiskey, also iron pontiled, possibly that of a competitor or a label only version.

 

[Harry Pristis]

I'm wrong about this being a "Persian" or fantasy bottle. I was fooled by the side view of the bottle lip . . . it's not a simple flared lip. The top view (thanks, JSC) reveals a solid lip (a lip that Rex Wilson calls a "prescription lip") that I can accept as applied.

I now think the bottle is a liqueur bottle from the latter half of the 19th Century. My guess is that it is French based on the disc pontil scar and the fact that the French produced many liqueurs in imaginative bottles.

 

[nhpharm]

I think a better photo of the base might show that this is an iron pontil. The other examples I have seen all have had iron pontils and this one sure looks like it could as well.