Date and ID Help Please!

[romeo-1]

Picked these up yesterday from the river. Site is adjacent to an 1800s brothel! I know the the dark glass is a liquor bottle but no real idea of the date range. The other bottle is a mystery. Weird shape with a plug top...toiletry I assume but would love to know for sure. Also picked up the poison bottle...only my second. Thanks for looking!

 

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[GopherDaGold]

LOVE the poison bottle! Great score!

 

[NJKLAGT]

Toiletry or perfume or something is a good guess for the clear one, probably dates somewhere between 1885 and 1900.

The coffin flask is a beauty! You'd hope it's American, maybe a New York glasshouse, but looking at that top, there's a very good chance that it's English. It's a little hard to tell from your pictures, it might just be the 'orange peel' texture, but if it has a sand pontil and it is American, it might be as early as 1845-1860. But if it's English and lacks a pontil it could be later. I'm leaning toward English, 1870s, I could be wrong though. (edit: who knows, we might find out it's 20 years older - hopefully someone knows for sure!)

Nice poison too!

 

[NJKLAGT]

I remember seeing a few flasks like this on eBay over the last couple years. One or two of them had pontils and were from New York or New Hampshire, can't remember, and then there were some similar English flasks that sold around the same time.

 

[jgas]

That top looks eerily like a case gin. NJ I believe you are on the right track with it. Either way it’s a cool flask. That poison is mighty nice too. Jgas.

 

[RelicDude]

Awesome finds. Rivers are some of the best places to recover early bottles. That flask is awesome but I agree with everyone else. It definitely has a European look.

 

[Harry Pristis]

I don't recognize the coffin flask, but I like it. My guess is that it is North American, dating to the CW era. I can't recall seeing a British coffin flask, and the lip finish does not strike me as British. More likely to be Canadian than British, but that's just my intuition. Here are some British flasks:

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[Bass]

Clean that flask up and show it off. Get good pictures, and especially of the bottom

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Sweet finds!

 

[romeo-1]

Clean that flask up and show it off. Get good pictures, and especially of the bottom

I'll do that...waiting for the sun to shine!

 

[romeo-1]

I don't recognize the coffin flask, but I like it. My guess is that it is North American, dating to the CW era. I can't recall seeing a British coffin flask, and the lip finish does not strike me as British. More likely to be Canadian than British, but that's just my intuition. Here are some British flasks:

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Well, I am on the east coast of Canada...would be nice to know when and where exactly it was made. Bottles are still relatively new to me so I'm still learning.

 

[A2coins]

Awesome bottles gotta be lots of goodies around there