Posted 8 years ago
SpiritBear
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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.
Did you dig it out/find it yourself?
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
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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.
Sha is very in-depth and what most of us go to to learn all we can on something.
I've never seen a bottle this old Spirit! And to be free of chips and cracks... wow!
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. :)