Your oldest bottles

[DruggistBottles]

The oldest embossed bottle I have is an "A. Delpit / No 16 / St. Louis St. / New Orleans" snuff. He moved to this location between 1838 and 1842. He was there at least into the 1850s. The glass is paper thin.

 

[sandchip]

Smokin' smokeless, DruggistBottles! Great stuff, everybody.

 

[TROG]

This my oldest bottle

Circa 1720,s English Onion bottle that was used as a door stop filled with sand.

 

[HH White]

That amber demi looks very early and special. Any chance we could see a photo of the base?

 

[JustGlass]

These are probably the three oldest I own. The dutch onion has got to be the oldest with the demi and gin fighting for second.

 

[DruggistBottles]

Some people wanted to see more pictures of my "amber" demi. Actually it is dark olive. Now I see how easy it is to take bad pictures without natural lighting! I am posting more pictures of it. And I am including some of an actual amber demi I have. The Olive one is 16" tall about 11'' wide. The amber is 18" tall and 15" wide with a wavy flat bottom.

Olive Demi

Olive Demi base

Olive Demi Top

Amber Demi

Amber Demi base

Amber Demi top

 

[RICKJJ59W]

ORIGINAL: JustGlass

These are probably the three oldest I own. The dutch onion has got to be the oldest with the demi and gin fighting for second.

Wow that Demi is a BUTE

 

[earlyglass]

Anyone want to play?? Here we have 4 early American bottles.
Does anyone want to guess the order of oldest to most recent?

FYI... the most recent is still roughly 200 years old!

Mike

 

[cyberdigger]

C A B D ?

 

[tigue710]

B A C D ?