Stoddard or not?

[passthebottle]

Dug this awhile ago on a dump that had been thrown down the side of a steep slope. It was in with pontilled material so I'm guessing it's around 1860 or so. It is a 3-pc mold in an olive color littered with millions of seed bubbles.

 

[passthebottle]

Nicely done pour spout lip

 

[passthebottle]

Are Stoddard pieces marked with a single dot in the center of base? Thanks

 

[RedGinger]

The color looks right, but I'm not a Stoddard expert. Nice spout!

 

[tigue710]

you could call it that, i do beleive the vent mold places it as a likely Stoddard bottle although the form is often willington and westford also...

 

[old.s.bottles]

Stoddard or not its awesome!

 

[trilobite541]

Think I may lean a bit more toward Keene. Regardless, nice...!

 

[tigue710]

bottle prodiction in Keene ceased in 1841 when the marlboro street works closed. The head glass blower at Marlboro was Joseph Foster of Stoddard fame, who purchased the assets of Marlboro street and moved to Stoddard New Hampshire, where he started his own works. Window glass was made in Keene until the 1850's but its believed that bottles were not made in the window glass factory. This places any bottles made in Keene very early, this form being highly unlikely to have been produced there, without pontil and with a center vent mark which places it in the 1860's or later...

although many bottles produced in the Stoddard works can be attributed thanks to extensive excavations there, most of the molds and forms were used throughout New England and New York. There has been a trend to Call all early New England glass "Stoddard", although often inaccurate, as much of it can not be positively attributed to any of the early works. The colors found at Stoddard range from deep blood red ambers to forest greens although there is a olive yellow amber color found in early new england glass that seems almost exclusive to Stoddard glass. There are also a few molds attributed exclusively to Stoddard.

This is not a new trend in bottle collecting, as we have Pitkin flasks, which were made many other places besides the Pitkin Works, Stiegal Glass, which can not without family provenance be attributed to those works, and so on... so to many people Soddard it is! Good luck finding a Westford or Willington utility on ebay, it most likley will be a Stoddard piece!