A very unique machine made crown top bottle.

[Mich. Wolverine]

I found this bottle a 3 weeks ago and I have never seen one like it. It was made no later than 1919 and has whittle (for a lack of another word) like blown bottles from the 1850's and 1860's. It must of been made early in the machine making process. Has anyone found a bottle like this or have an idea what caused this.
Wolverine.

 

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[YoungBlood]

How far up does the mold seam go?

 

[Mich. Wolverine]

I should of taken a picture of the that, it runs all the way up over the the top. The Banner Brewing Company- Saginaw Michigan was in business from 1901 to 1919. I have found some amber Banner Brewing Company blown tooled crown tops but this is the first aqua one and it's a machine made bottle, that's why it's so strange. Thank's for your interest.
Wolverine.

 

[YoungBlood]

More than likely it was made on a press and blow machine

 

[YoungBlood]

Inbetween 4 and 5 is when they would blow it out to form a jar or bottle. The press and blow machine was used from 1860 to present as you can see in the pic. They often have a ring in the bottom so they look hand blown. Press and blow bottles are very common but how a bottle is made usually never makes it rare or not. Most medicine bottles were made on press and blow machines. Sorry I probly didn't help much but I don't know what else to say. Here is a good website that talks about press and blow and more.http://www.sha.org/bottle/machinemadedating.htm

 

[bottlehunterofcoscob]

I love those old and primitive crowns. I find a lot of beers like that. Here is an old crown soda, tooled.

 

[antlerman23]

NOOOOOOOO!!!!! this screws alot of people up! it screwed me up for a while too! this site is very helpful----->Dating Page but that picture is bunk.

 

[surf]

Hello Wolverine,

This phenomenon is called cold mould whittle by many. It theoretically occurred when the molten glass would contact a cold mould, perhaps at the beginning of a shift, or when the moulds were changed.

"Whittle marks were actually caused by a reaction of the hot glass hitting the surface of a colder mold; cold relative to the temperature of the molten glass. Molds needed to be red hot" to properly produce a bottle without the wrinkles or ripple-marks that are known as whittle marks (Scholes 1952)." Body & Mold Seams

There's a good piece by Red Matthews that addresses this: Cold Mold Ripple in Glass Bottles | Antique Bottle Mysteries

 

[gleaner1]

surf the whittle on that townsends looks like the surface of a frog pond on a windy day.