Need some help with dates

[orrwhat]

Which of these, if any, are pre 1900? Also welcoming any tips on taking better pictures!

 

[Old sodas]

Could you get pics of the bottom of the bottles?

 

[orrwhat]

Thank you for looking, here are the bottoms

 

[CanadianBottles]

The Seitz Bros is absolutely pre-1900, the others are all likely pre-1900 but could also be up to a decade or so after. Hard to tell exactly what year a bottle from that era dates to since they weren't often marked with date codes (although it almost looks like one of them is marked with a date of 1890 on the base, it looks like they were crudely changing the second two digits which would be more likely on a date than a mold number). Regardless they're all beautiful bottles! Some great pictorial embossing there. And really BIM bottles from the early 20th century are typically lumped in with pre-1900 bottles anyway, people care about the way the bottle was made a lot more than the exact year it was made.

 

[Old sodas]

Pic 5 is 1890

 

[orrwhat]

The Seitz Bros is absolutely pre-1900, the others are all likely pre-1900 but could also be up to a decade or so after. Hard to tell exactly what year a bottle from that era dates to since they weren't often marked with date codes (although it almost looks like one of them is marked with a date of 1890 on the base, it looks like they were crudely changing the second two digits which would be more likely on a date than a mold number). Regardless they're all beautiful bottles! Some great pictorial embossing there. And really BIM bottles from the early 20th century are typically lumped in with pre-1900 bottles anyway, people care about the way the bottle was made a lot more than the exact year it was made.

 

[orrwhat]

Cool, thank you for the info!

 

[Old sodas]

welcome