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Pontiled Bottles20 of 40Cobalt Blue Glass Bottles ~ Made in SpainPersian Saddle Bottle
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    Posted 9 years ago

    SpiritBear
    (813 items)

    This is a very old bottle-- my oldest now. It was made before the USA's Civil War.
    I think it is a spice bottle, albeit it looks to have been used for and retain some medicine (common).
    It has a blowpipe type of pontil and hinge-mold base (the pontil scar on a hinge-mold base is a diagnostic feature of a blow-pipe versus other type of pontil-formation). As expected with pontils, it has an applied top.
    The hinge-mold part is that line equally dividing the bottle on the base, which is not a mirror image in this case.

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    Comments

    1. AnnaB AnnaB, 9 years ago
      Did you dig it out/find it yourself?
    2. SpiritBear, 9 years ago
      No. Few pontiled bottles have been dug in my town. The snap-case began to take over in the 1850s. The last American pontils for standard bottles was about 1870.
      The hinge-mold, which mine is, came out I think in the 1810s but also required a blow-pipe.
      There were many ways to make a bottle even 200 years ago.

      https://sha.org/bottle/bases.htm#Snap Case & Sabot
      ^Your new best friend if you dunno it. ^
    3. AnnaB AnnaB, 9 years ago
      Thank you, Spirit, i'll check it out. I'm going over digger Odell's website now...again--to revise the basic facts. I don't seem to retain certain info and dates very well these days.
    4. SpiritBear, 9 years ago
      Sha is very in-depth and what most of us go to to learn all we can on something.
    5. Rick55 Rick55, 9 years ago
      I've never seen a bottle this old Spirit! And to be free of chips and cracks... wow!
    6. SpiritBear, 9 years ago
      Nope, one minor chip that is hard to spot. LOL. Upper left of photo one you can see it, kind of.

      But thanks for commenting. :)

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