Posted 8 years ago
Mrstyndall
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I have had this bottle for a long time. It is a dark green with a large Pontil at bottom. Does anyone recognize this type of bottle and what age it might have. It is very thick and well made.
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My guess is you're mistaking a kick-up (typical even on modern wine-bottles) for a pontil, as a pontiled wine should have an applied ring on the lip, whereas yours is too perfect to be applied. It's either tooled (the ring) or machine made (I'm guessing the former).
The colour is very light and is in higher quality (thus thinner) glass, also suggesting that it is newer. I'm guessing American-made, 1890s into the 1910s.
Spiritbear, thanks for the info! I did not know that the bottom was called a kick-up.
That great high-point that reaches up inside the bottle is a kick-up, seen almost solely in wine bottles. I used to know the reasoning around it but have since forgotten. I think it has to do with the separation of solids from the liquid itself.