Thoughts? . . . . . . I think it's a cool little bottle! Labels on beer bottles of this age are rare, rare, rare. I know that I don't have one with a label, though I have a few smaller black bottles like this. What are the dimensions of this bottle?
Wasn't the back-story of this bottle that someone had found a case of these empties, and you had managed to acquire this one from that group? Found here, in the Northeast somewhere.
Here are a couple on my shelf; but, they look kinda' drab next to yours.
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I got 2 items from a fella that won a box lot at an auction. Sounds like an interesting story. Anymore details? I'll measure the bottle when I get home. Nice bottles in the pic. I like that one on the right.
[font=comic sans ms][size=14pt]Judging from Roger Dumbrell's line-drawings of British lip finishes, I'd say that your bottle dates to post-1850 (but, not too long after 1850, say up to 1870).
You're right, the label should be a more accurate way to date the bottle. I did a preliminary www search, but didn't find anything useful. What you may want to do is to get onto a British bottle web-forum. A Liverpool collector once got me some useful info from that city's business directory from the 1820s!
“A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.”
--Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle) in "The Sign of Four"
Thanks Harry, I just emailed a fellow over there who heads up those forums. I found pics of a couple labels that were in a museum in Canada supposedly from 1850-85, but they didn't look like mine. Hibbert did make different types of beers though. Maybe , Mark over in England will have some luck.
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