Unique applied top...

[woody]

Can any one enlighten me as to what type of applied top there is on this early Boston soda/beer bottle???

 

[woody]

top

 

[woody]

another view...

 

[woody]

embossing

 

[epackage]

I think from a previous post this was just a top put on upside down woody....Jim

 

[blade]

Inverted taper.
Chris

 

[woody]

I don't know... if the top is applied how could they put it on upside down???[8|]

 

[cowseatmaize]

I don't know

Me either woody, especially since it's got such tool marks. They would have had to tool the lip first to place it.
Maybe they had a way to pre-manufacture the lips?
Time to hit the books.

 

[CWBookAuthor]

Of the few I have seen, I would call it an inverted blob top. I have never seen one with the closure, so that's not much help. It was NOT an error by the bottle blowers. That's the way it was supposed to be.

Mike

 

[woody]

Right, Mike. I am sure it was deliberate the way it was formed, esp. the way the inside lip is tapered downward.