quick question about age and embossing:

[old.s.bottles]

If a bottle, such as a pontiled flask, has weak embossing, does that mean it is older than a flask of the same embossing that is much more defined?

 

[bostaurus]

I have a couple English vet bottles that are the same company. The older one has very bold embossing and the newer is weaker. I will have to check now and see if any of my duplicates are different in age and embossing.

 

[blobbottlebob]

Hey Olds,
I don't think that a bottle is necessarily older because it has a poor strike on an example. I've seen modern bottles with faint embossing and I've seen early pontilled flasks with heavy embossing and ornate detail. It might be an early example but I think it depends on other things . . .

 

[glass man]

WOULD SEEM THAT A BOTTLE WITH WEAK EMBOSSING MAY BE NEWER CAUSE THE MOLD WAS WEARING OUT..MAYBE...AND A STRONGER COULD BE OLDER CAUSE THE MOLD WAS NEWER...BUT AS SAID MANY FACTORS DEPEND ON THIS.

JAMIE

 

[old.s.bottles]

thanks for the help guys