Hello,
I was wondering if you could help me identify this bottle I recently purchased. It came from a gentlemen who lived in Seattle and worked in a Naval shipyard. He might have brought it from Italy or a trip because I also bought a carnival glass dish container that had a few very old 30's? matchboxes. I believe he moved there in 1928 or married. It reminds me of the typical things you find in old insulator glass with snot, amber swirls, whittles and small/large bubbles which is why I grabbed it off the table from the estate sale. The the few bubbles that are present are not in some sort of design. The bottom glass stand looks like it could have had a label on the bottom at one point or maybe it was just sitting too long somewhere. It measures 5 3/8" in height overall and the base diameter measures 2 15/16". The pictures I have of it doesn't show the true color of it very much but its close. I'm guessing that it could be an inkwell/paperweight type of bottle used on a ship perhaps? I have no idea what else it could have been used for other than display or for ink or it looks similar to those Chianti bottles from Italy. I've seen a few other pictures that suggest it might have been made from the New York State Glass House but most likely European?
I've been told it is probably not antique, maybe 1920-1950's, European, not an ink well/bottle but vase of some sort.., a perfume bottle(most ugly & crude perfume bottle I've seen..), possible Emil Larson piece, fun piece to be used as a decorative bottle, ..it may have been a candle holder., it is indeed old (19th century) and not some 20th century item, glass in pictures seems consistent with early blown glass. Any information would be very helpful, thanks.
I was wondering if you could help me identify this bottle I recently purchased. It came from a gentlemen who lived in Seattle and worked in a Naval shipyard. He might have brought it from Italy or a trip because I also bought a carnival glass dish container that had a few very old 30's? matchboxes. I believe he moved there in 1928 or married. It reminds me of the typical things you find in old insulator glass with snot, amber swirls, whittles and small/large bubbles which is why I grabbed it off the table from the estate sale. The the few bubbles that are present are not in some sort of design. The bottom glass stand looks like it could have had a label on the bottom at one point or maybe it was just sitting too long somewhere. It measures 5 3/8" in height overall and the base diameter measures 2 15/16". The pictures I have of it doesn't show the true color of it very much but its close. I'm guessing that it could be an inkwell/paperweight type of bottle used on a ship perhaps? I have no idea what else it could have been used for other than display or for ink or it looks similar to those Chianti bottles from Italy. I've seen a few other pictures that suggest it might have been made from the New York State Glass House but most likely European?
I've been told it is probably not antique, maybe 1920-1950's, European, not an ink well/bottle but vase of some sort.., a perfume bottle(most ugly & crude perfume bottle I've seen..), possible Emil Larson piece, fun piece to be used as a decorative bottle, ..it may have been a candle holder., it is indeed old (19th century) and not some 20th century item, glass in pictures seems consistent with early blown glass. Any information would be very helpful, thanks.
