Turn Mold Dip Mold and BIM

[Jason]

I'm not sure what the first one is, but it has seams up to the tooled finish. The other two look like turn molds. The middle one has no seams. The one on the right has faint seams that start half way up the bottle that fade away completely.
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[Bert DeWitt]

Can we get a pic of the bottoms Please it will help to identify.

 

[Jason]

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[Bert DeWitt]

The first one in the first pic you took or the last one in the second pic you took same bottle is quite interesting.

 

[Bert DeWitt]

I'm new so you will have to wait until someone with more experience than I to look at them.

 

[2find4me]

This is not my area of expertise, the one on the right looks like a turn mold. The middle one might be free blown, or it could be turn mold.The first one might be BIM. Like I said before, these are just my "educated guesses". They look like they date around TOC, give or take ten years. The first one might be a little newer then the rest, maybe 1920's for that one.

 

[MichaelFla]

The tallest is a 3 piece mold. Of the two shorter ones, the darker is definitely turn mold, and the aqua likely is as well, but could possibly be BIM. I would need a closer look at the bottle to be sure.

 

[MichaelFla]

I just re-read the original post. Since the aqua one has seams up to the tooling marks, it would be BIM. Somehow I blanked on that before I replied. Sorry.

 

[dw3000]

To clarify, all three bottles are BIM in that each was blown in a mold of some kind. None look to be free blown or machine made. It can be difficult to tell if a bottle was made in a dip mold or turn molded as both will remove the seams, more or less.

 

[Jason]

Thanks, guys. Too a novice it's all very confusing. I need to read more in depth about the different processes.