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It is a screw top so probably not that old. (It will be someday)I don't want to remove the top, has nice bubbles. 1930's ?
 

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That's interesting, never seen a top like that before. I suspect it's a bit older than the 30s, probably more like 10s or 20s.
 

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Hard to see where the seam ends, l am sure the top will fall apart if l try removing.
You don't need to see where the seam ends, it's got a suction scar on the base so that tells you that it's machine-made. Looks like a fairly early one though.
 

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Hard to see where the seam ends, l am sure the top will fall apart if l try removing.
Don't do it! Even those rubber seals on the lightning or hutchinson seals are brittle as you are well aware. I used to think I could muscle things like that ink cap off and it has never worked the way I imagined. Stuff just crumbles.
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It is a screw top so probably not that old. (It will be someday)I don't want to remove the top, has nice bubbles. 1930's ?
I wanna say that probably is an early watermans by the base. Usually these ones are from the late 1890s to early 1900s. It may be a ground lip screw cap.
 

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Don't do it! Even those rubber seals on the it's lightning or hutchinson seals are brittle as you are well aware. I used to think I could muscle things like that ink cap off and it has never worked the way I imagined. Stuff just crumbles.
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Yeah, you always think this one will be different. Giddy up ( it's just so tempting)
I wanna say that probably is an early watermans by the base. Usually these ones are from the late 1890s to early 1900s. It may be a ground lip screw cap.
I want to stay I found it like this, but I may have tried to open it up when I first dug it up. Either way maybe this will help with identifying as a ground lip
 

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I can't see the lip in the picture, but since it's got a suction scar on the base it has to be an ABM bottle, which means no ground lip. The top does look quite early though, so it may be an even earlier ABM bottle, maybe from the 1900s even.
 

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Not listed in Covill but few 1900’s inks are. It is unusual and definitely a keeper. Never seen one like it.
 

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