Todays cork top finds!

[Newtothiss]

I think 1 or 2 on the end may be dairy related?
Starting to get into slightly older stuff, still all turn of the century though (I think).

 

[hemihampton]

Probably dates to around the Teens. Maybe 20's at latest. LEON.

 

[Screwtop]

Late teens, early 1920s for sure.

 

[Newtothiss]

Probably dates to around the Teens. Maybe 20's at latest. LEON.

Mostly..
A couple 30's, 1 or 2 that may be preteens.
Pretty wide age range for all being so close to each other.

I'm happy to be seeing less screw tops though, seems I'm on the right track.
Finding some neat stuff, I wish it was whole.

 

[Bohdan]

I think 1 or 2 on the end may be dairy related?
Starting to get into slightly older stuff, still all turn of the century though (I think).
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Very nice to see sparkling-clean bottles of any vintage. That's the way to present them.
Thanks.

 

[hemihampton]

Yes, The less screw tops the better in my opinion. LEON.

 

[Sunflowerlover7]

Yes, The less screw tops the better in my opinion. LEON.

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[Sunflowerlover7]

Yes, The less screw tops the better in my opinion. LEON.

hemihampton,

Is there a good way to date(rough estimate) when a screw top bottle might have been manufactured? Example after 1890 cork bottles were no longer made. Just curious to know, but I know ever bottle company was different.


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[willong]

Yes, The less screw tops the better in my opinion. LEON.

Yes, but with a few exceptions: early flasks with ground lip, cork closure with a threaded over-cap (shot glass, dose cup and etc.) and tooled internally threaded lip as found on the Crown Distilleries Whiskey bottle and a few others.

I dug one of those Crown bottles ages ago that had a couple big chunks out of the lip. At the time, I kept it as a place holder, hoping to one day replace it with a fully intact example. I even thought about repairing the lip with epoxy casting resin. Having acquired the perspective of decades, I've changed my mind and am glad that I never made the repair. Just like some collectors particularly enjoy finding pottery that retains fingerprints from the potter, I think about the sawyer--I found that bottle at a site once occupied by a shingle mill--who was probably frustrated with the stubborn cork that didn't want to dislodge when he applied leverage with his ice pick. Only after he'd broken away enough glass did he discover the threads on that new-fangled bottle stopper!