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I'm not sure how this bottle passed quality control, it has a couple major flaws. It appears to have fallen over while the glass in the base was still soft. There is a rather large bulge on the backside near the base and it lays flat without wobbling. The glass around the lip has been ground but it is nowhere near flat. One part sticks up so high you can see where the upper edge of the mold would have been. Seems like this would have interfered with the cap's seal. The suface has a slight orange peel texture to it. The texture near the neck almost looks like wood grain. I suspect that it might have been a wooden mold although it seems unlikely since there is some intricate embossing on it which would have worn out quite quickly. Also I imagine with a screw top you would need a pretty precise mold.
I think it dates from around the turn of the century. It's a three piece mold, I didn't take any pictures of the base. The only mark on it is a single bump in the center, most likely from an air vent. Also, while I was putting this post together the sun came out so I went out and dug around in the same area and turned up a nice four sided diamond profile bottle with "pat'd june 29th 1897 No 27261" on the base. I did a quick search and found one with a label still intact, it was a "syr white pine with tar" bottle. The label has a date of 1906 on it and the embossing on the base has a little more detail than mine does.
Mostly I'm interested in finding out what the original contents of the bottle were. The embossing appears to be S&C although it's quite stylized and hard to tell for sure. It's too small to be a liquor bottle and too big to be perfume or cologne.
I think it dates from around the turn of the century. It's a three piece mold, I didn't take any pictures of the base. The only mark on it is a single bump in the center, most likely from an air vent. Also, while I was putting this post together the sun came out so I went out and dug around in the same area and turned up a nice four sided diamond profile bottle with "pat'd june 29th 1897 No 27261" on the base. I did a quick search and found one with a label still intact, it was a "syr white pine with tar" bottle. The label has a date of 1906 on it and the embossing on the base has a little more detail than mine does.
Mostly I'm interested in finding out what the original contents of the bottle were. The embossing appears to be S&C although it's quite stylized and hard to tell for sure. It's too small to be a liquor bottle and too big to be perfume or cologne.