Help ID this bottle

[RKinOI]

Found on banks of Cape Fear. Any ideas?

[SimonLakeSub]

Dude ,,,,, Awesome find !!!!!!! " Revolutionary Rum" Check the area for shipwrecks that date back to the Revolution......

Regards Simon.....

[Skrimpy]

get it cleaned up a litte, especially the bottom and top of that thing (ie to confirm that it is "revolutionary rum"), then if you still get no confirmation, post it here. They will know exactly what it is.
www.antiquebottlediggers.com

[SimonLakeSub]

Try to get your hands on any one of my books, " New york City's Buried Past" A guide to Excavated New York City's Revolutionary War Artifacts 1776-1783. Or" Bottles of Old New York" A Pictorial Guide To Early New York City Bottles 1680-1925. If you need futher confirmation.

Regards Simon....

[Skrimpy]

Thing is, I don't see the usual suspects here talking about your bottle meaning one of two things, either it is something so rare that even they don't know what it is, or you don't have it cleaned off well enough to tell what it is. The top looks quite crude to me which could be an indication that it is not all that new but most really old bottles have a pontiled bottom where an iron rod was used to hold the glob of glass while it was being blown into shape...the reason I said clean off the bottom. Better yet, the fact that it looks as crude as it does to me says that you probably shouldn't even bother wasting your time here and just taking it to someone that knows bottles to find out exactly what the hell it is (a bottle show maybe...or better yet email a pic to the national bottle museum...link below). I am by no means an expert, but my amature eye says it might be a fairly old whisky bottle.

http://www.nationalbottlemuseum.org/.../Untitled.html

[southern maine diver]

Hey RKinOI...

The bottle appears to be a "mallet" type of bottle, commonly used for rum. By the shape, I would say that it is just prior to 1800... 1780 - 1800 or so. The glass is very "sick" and it appears to be "free blown" meaning it is very old, black glass and was not blown in a mold of any kind. many of these came from England, Dutch... some from colonial America.

The bottle is not a "high dollar" find, unless it has a "seal" on the shoulder. Black glass, free blown mallets are in the $35.00 - 75.00 range depending on the type, age, color and condition.

Hope this helps,

Wayne