Make it Schnappy, Herr Russ

[bottlecrazy]

What a great find. Definitely pre- Civil war.

 

[hemihampton]

nice find, might be worth enough to fill up you tank twice, or 3 times. I'd go back & look for more. LEON.

 

[5 gallon collector]

Thank you for all of your comments. Attached now are images after washing, and here is a video link --



-- all.....

after simply washing with water. No chips. Tiny bubbles everywhere. For the record, it measures 7 3/4 inches in height. It is surprisingly light -- weight is 266.1 grams = 9.39 ounces. Perhaps this is not unusual, but it seems quite thin-walled to me. I suppose, since shipped from NY, weight might have been an issue, to be balanced against fragility? Square shape packs well, more bottles per crate. Would it have come overland? -- I think not, rather shipped around the Horn, into San Francisco.

 

[UnderMiner]

That's a Gangs of New York era bottle right there. Open pontils were really getting phased out starting in the 1850's so it's most likely pre-civil war. Only found one intact pontil bottle from that era and it's my avatar pic.

There was no transcontinental railroad yet nor Panama canal so that bottle had to have come either around the southern tip of South America via steam/sailing ship or over land by ox cart on the Oregon Trail.

 

[Jake2150]

Seedy crude glass, open pontil, color. Awesome Bottle!

 

[hemihampton]

This Bottle Book gives it a Price of $150-$200 but the one in book not pontiled, yours being older pontiled would be worth more. LEON.

 

[saratogadriver]

Looks like an absolutely top notch example as well as being a fairly rare bottle. I don't know if they blew them at Stoddard but the color and the crudity with a million bubbles could certainly be a Stoddard make piece.

Jim G