Unknown?

[SeanColvin]

[font="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"]I have a bottle[/font][font="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"] here, and it cannot be found anywhere on the internet and I have no Idea if it it's worth anything. I dug it up[/font][font="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"] In Scituate Rhode Island. This Town is filled with old walls and foundations. It is 9.25 inches tall, clear, 3.25 inches wide and perfectly round, no embossing anywhere. It has a definite pontil mark on the bottom. The entire bottle is perfectly smooth, exept for the neck, which has uneven, horizontal lines going around it and it is slightly crooked. THERE IS NO SEAM ANYWHERE ON THIS BOTTLE. I have looked it over 15 times and have not found any seam anywhere. It has what looks like a flared lip that is slightly uneven. Again; no seam on the base, the body, the neck or the lip. Now for the most interesting part:There is a spout at the BOTTOM of the bottle made of glass that sticks out about 2 inches, and goes from about 1 inch wide where it connects to she bottle, to about 1/5 of an inch at the end. There are no bottles like it, and never have I seen anything even generally similar. Do you have any Idea if it is worth anything, and if this is a one-of-a-kind bottle?

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[SeanColvin]

Here is another picture of the base

 

[SeanColvin]

And another Picture.

 

[deepbluedigger]

It looks like a piece of scientific glassware to me. The spout on the side is definitely hand made. Could be something used in pharmacy / chemistry. Amazing that it's survived so well, especially that pointy spout which looks extremely fragile! Great item, even if very difficult to categorise.

 

[Clam]

I would say that it is some sort of specialty bottle for a lab, with a spout in that area and no valve it looks to me like it was made for collecting gases. Now saying that there might be a few folks who collect scientific glass(and I'm sure there are) I would not put a great deal of monetary value on it, if I had to guess maybe $25.......

 

[Clam]

By the way the type of mold it was probably made in is called a turn mold which does not leave any seam lines......

 

[woody]

I have a bottle exactly like that one that I bought at a yard sale.
I'll have to look for it in the shed.

 

[cyberdigger]

Yesterday I was looking through a book at the antique store about a 1900 era dairy operation, and they had a pic of someone testing the fat content of milk, cream, butter, etc.. there was a bottle like yours in the photograph, used for filling test tubes.. perhaps tomorrow I will get a pic of the pic for you.. neat bottle, by the way!

 

[KentOhio]

I happened to see one just like that yesterday, with the original label. It was a nasal douche.

 

[SeanColvin]

HAHAHAHA