Posted 10 years ago
Bottlesjw
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Another mystery to me this bottle was a in ground find it do not have a flat bottom but stand if I play with it still has cork in it must my bottles never get cleaned inside of them I only wipe off .
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Looks like a contemporary half-size chianti bottle. The lip finish is certainly modern. It was probably wrapped in wicker with a flat base that enabled it to stand. Do you know the general age of the area where it was dug?
Bootleguy sorry rebuild on a building that was built in 1960
I'd say that the date of the original construction probably pretty well dates the bottle.
That looks like a handmade bottle. I don't see any flashmark on the bottle or the top. When they factory make bottles they stick two halves together and you see a line run down both sides of the bottle where the two halves joined. They call that a flashmark. I'm pretty sure that this is a handmade bottle from no later than the forties. A very nice find.
Of course, it could be a worthless Chianti bottle from 1960.I remember finding one of these and it had a faint flashmark that I didn't see at first so I suspect bottleguy got it right.
For the record, the place where parts of a mold join together leaving a faint line in the glass, is called a "mold line" or "mold seam." Two- or three-part molds are the most common. Although the Romans made molded glassware, three-part molds were reinvented in England in 1921. Two-part molds were first used in the US starting around the same time.
Thank you
OOPS! I just spotted a typo in my previous comment. That should have been 1821.