Pontil Bear Bottle

[JOETHECROW]

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[SAbottles]

Joe, do you think that bear had bottles in his pack labelled "Just Glass Oil" ? !! []

 

[glass man]

NICE! ALWAYS AMAZES ME THE THIN LIPS MAKE IT THROUGH ALL THESE YEARS! IDIGJARS [PAUL] SENT ME A BOTTLE WITH A LIP LIKE THIS AND I LOVE IT....GLAD YOU FINALLY GOT ONE!!!! JAMIE

 

[GlassKeeper]

Nice find Justglass, I would like to get my hands on one some day. I really like the thin lip on that old bottle.

 

[LC]

I have one that looks to be the same one . It is open pontiled , but does not have the flared lip and the embossing is running the opposite way on the bottle .

 

[LC]

The bottom .

 

[Steve/sewell]

JustGlass nice bottle.I have two of these and can tell you a little about them I have researched.First they were a very copied bottle and product probably second to the Robert Turlington Balsam bottles in that respect.The oldest ones were made right here in South Jersey for Dr. Dyott in Philadelphia as early as 1817. The same glass works (The Olive glassworks) and the Gloucester Glass works in Clementon New Jersey probably made them slightly before before this time as early as 1815.The oldest embossed examples used serif lettering on them.The bottles that have the thin flared lips and the serif lettering were made between 1817 and 1825.The bottles that have the sans serif lettering were made slightly later 1825 to 1840 and this is the case with yours as it has sans serif embossing on the bottle.I will also show you a non embossed version that is also very old.

 

[Steve/sewell]

An embosssed version and a non embossed version

 

[Steve/sewell]

My bottle on the left yours on the right you can see the difference in the style of the lettering.

 

[Steve/sewell]

The pontils on each bottle.