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[A.slatter]

Hi I have quite a few bottles in my collection most of them too modern and worthless to anyone else, but recently I have found found three stone bottles with Wynand Fockink Amsterdam stamped on the front. Also three other green glass bottles from the same age and one that is a lot darker and only just looks green when held to the light could this be black glass?? I don't know enough about them so if anyone has any information they could help me with I would apprecite it. Most of these bottles also have there corks inside but are quite rotten as they have been under water for a long time!

Regards Angela

 

[whiskeyman]

Angela ...welcome to the Forum. Do you have pictures you can post ?

 

[SAbottles]

Hi Angela
The stone bottles were for gin. We dig quite a few of these here in South Africa. If you Google Wynand Fockink you will find quite a surprising amount of info. It is an old firm, but still in existence.
Regards
Dale

 

[SAbottles]

Here is one I sold recently

 

[SAbottles]

Sorry, still learning how to post photos!

 

[A.slatter]

Hi thanks I have looked up the stone bottles. I have taken pictures of the glass ones there isn't a seam on either bottle and the darker one has a large indent in the base a bit like champaign but is only 23cms high.

 

[A.slatter]

Does anyone think the dark bottle is black glass?? They all have marks from being underwater but aren't chipped, does anyone know of a safe way to clean them properly?

 

[RedGinger]

Great bottles, Angela. I'd love to see more of them. Did you dig them or dive for them?

 

[blobbottlebob]

Does anyone think the dark bottle is black glass??

It looks amber to me Angela. I'm not sure that the color matters very much though. These bottles will be worth a lot more if they have embossing on them indicating which bottler used them. Unembossed, they are kind of neat but not too rare or valuable. Maybe if it was red red or a crazy citron or something, people might be interested for the color alone???