Pontil?

[bend94]

Still getting the grasp on this whole pontil business, but got this little guy for a couple quarters at a co op. it has a pontil scar right? and either way info on it would be great. The glass is really thin and the bottle maybe 2-2.5 inches tall with a couple of chips in the lip.

 

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[sandchip]

Great example of a blowpipe pontil scar. AKA tubular pontil and open pontil (OP).

 

[bend94]

Have any idea of a date for something like this?

 

[cowseatmaize]

Mid 19th century but fairly common. Most people call them "puffs"and with the damage don't sell to well. At a couple quarters you did well to have an example. That one is really rather small.

 

[bend94]

Thats exactly the reason i picked it up. Slowly but surely gettin the hang of bottles. Thanks again cowseatmaize!

 

[RED Matthews]

Well Ben I sent you a PM. After you have read that, I think you will know more about where yuou want to go. I appreciate your early interest in the open tube pontil on the little bottle that caught your early interest. For that - I am going to send you my write up that is to help newbies, know the marks on bottles that were hand made, because that is the most fascinating value concept of the development of mans ability to make things out of glass.
I have worked in almost every product made of glass manufacturing - from bottles, to light bulbs, to glass tubing's and even the big blocks of glass for military tank window - blocks for the tank drivers safety.
RED Matthews

 

[saratogadriver]

Anywhere from 1830, to 1860ish. These sorts of bottles were very commonly ordered and used. Could be ink, could be medicine of some sort. If you went to an apothecary around 1850, no doubt you'd have seen some of these with labels for different products on the shelves.

Jim G