Well, here's my newly cleaned mineral water, which I mistakenly had termed a bitters type bottle. Although, the fellow I dug it with had thought the same thing, and he's a veteran compared to me, so we both got a little eddification!! I had told Cynangyl of the color of this bottle, and the site which has the information has a good picture of it, but here's the pictures I got on mine. It's a pretty interesting story too, so here's the link:
Just choose the "Hunyadi-Janos Bitterquelle" jump, or scroll down towards the bottom. Interestingly enough, they state that these are/were being found in California and were shipped there in the 1880's, and we found this one in a 1880's era dump here in Norfolk, VA, so maybe they had a much wider circulation than thought!
At any rate, here's the picture's for y'all, enjoy!!
Saxlehner's Bitterquelle Rim, Hunyadi-Janos Center
Didn't plan on it, but the white if my wall reflected really neat around the neck.
White piece of paper to try and show color a little better.
You can almost see it, but the inside of the bottle looks "dimpled" when looking into a light source.
Hope you all enjoyed these, happy digging, and Happy Thanksgiving!!
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Hi, very nice bottle!! I find them up here in Northern Ohio too. I dug a dump just before the snow started that must of had about 20 of em all broken. Here is a picture of one of mine to try and help show the color of these bottles. I thought that these were bitters bottles too.
Happy Huntin' , Twig.
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I have several that were pulled from a dump that is well dated as ranging from 1892 - 1898.
Last week I was digging in some transition era (1915ish) stuff in my backyard and pulled what looked like the same bottle.
When I got home and cleaned it up I was shocked to find out that it was ABM!!!
Although I can't tell for sure from the pictures you posted, it sure looks like you got the 1915 ABM version there. It's easy enough to check - just look at the seam.
The 1890's version is tooled and I'm guessing that if there is an 1880's version it may be applied - but this is just speculation as I've never pulled one of these from an 1880's dump.
If I'm wrong about your bottle being ABM, I apologize - I do hate when someone calls one of my hand blown bottles machine made! Just wanted to share my recent experience with this bottles in hopes to continue the discussion
BTW - the ABM version looks EXACTLY like the tooled version. Same size, color and base marking. It even has whittle marks!!!
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