found today.. possible 18th century date stamp

[GatorBoy]

if anyone can offer any information on this piece I thank you in advance. there is a circular stamp on the bottom of the bottle that appears to be 1715 or 1775 trying to clean carefully to read.



trying to get a photo of it now

 

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[GatorBoy]

I hope these help.... feels like my eyes are playing tricks on me







hope these helped

 

[gleaner1]

Nice rare broke. Is it amber? IF this was an attic quality piece in amber, or even clear, it may have pushed a grand or so not too long ago. This general design (not the floral panels) with the bulbous (toroidal) protrusion in the neck is a design specific to the great Lake's Indian Specific bottle (Syracuse, NY) and many plain aqua pieces of unmistakable similarity (Harry has a nice embossed example) Many pontiled plain aquas of this design were seen in the Great Wilmington Bottle Hoard of 2010. But these even plain cannot be considered too common, nor too rare. My visceral guess is that these all came from a NY, VT or NJ glasshouse. Nobody knows for sure, but that is just a guess also. Always learning, please post a pic of that bottle in a window, natural sunlight. That is a nice one.

 

[GatorBoy]

Will do...thanks alot! Will post in a.m.

 

[curbdiggercarl57]

What is this Great Wilmington Bottle Hoard of 2010 that you speak of?
Killer bottle, by the way!
Carl

 

[GatorBoy]

Good question..and thanks. Im in florida by the way

 

[gleaner1]

The Great Wilmington Bottle Hoard of 2010 will be burned into my bottle diggin brain for life. I coined the term for the great discovery. It was posted here by the Wilmington Bottle Boys (I think that is right), this was a Tnet user, I think they are still around on Tnet, always posted good stuff. Anyway, they got a lead on a good site from a homeless man, found it, got permission, dug it and holy crap they found a bonanza of good glass. But as usual, the story hit the crapper, people wanted to know what they did for the homeless guy. Well, they gave the homeless guy a fair cut but that was not good enough. The post went south quick and the poster pulled the post, and I dont blame him. It was just an awesome rarely seen hoard of good glass. I know you must remember that one Carl. Think back, you must remember. They pulled hundreds of goods out of the basement of an old medicine/doctor/pharm shop somewhere in Wilmington, a truly rare and thrilling discovery. It was awesome. They set up all the pieces in the driveway and it looked like a forest of bottles, hundreds, I think into the thousand range, many rare nice pieces. Tens of the aqua plain ones similar to the one shown on this thread, all pontiled. A lot of the stuff was pontiled. A few big rare pontiled gallon black glass bottles, truly rare cache not to be seen again any time soon.

 

[GatorBoy]

here are a few better photos. I don't think I said earlier it's clear. sound in a muddy area with musket balls and flint. and a three ringer that looks like it was made yesterday. can someone please explain to me how to keep the glass from oxidizing and getting that rainbow metallic flake

 

[Road Dog]

Just a pontil mark on the bottom of that one.Your eyes playing tricks. Probable an 1850+/- cologne. I bought a few bottles out of the Wilmington Hoard. The Aqua ones found there were 1850's ,pontilled with a rolled lip. I bought one of those as well. Here is a link.
dig of a lifetime and we are not done!!!!!

 

[GatorBoy]

hey thanks a lot for that... found this with it.

 

[Harry Pristis]

This bottle appears on pp. 400-401 in Illustration 111 of the McKearin-Wilson book, AMERICAN BOTTLES & FLASKS AND THEIR ANCESTRY. The illustration is entitled, "Rare Colored Figured Cologne Bottles ca. 1830-60s.

This bottle (number 8 in the illustration) is described as "cold blue" with a capacity of six ounces and a height of seven inches.

It is extraordinary to find a bottle like this in Florida (even broken) because Florida was still frontier territory at that time. Good find!

 

[GatorBoy]

thank you sir. thank you very much for pinpointing exactly where I can read about this bottle. I love how a site offers up fragments of the story piece by piece.

 

[BeachComber7]

Bill here's a link you may find helpful and interesting:

Historic Bottle Website - Homepage

Cool bottle!

 

[GatorBoy]

Cool thanks

 

[GatorBoy]

hey beachcomber that site is great thank you

 

[curbdiggercarl57]

The Great Wilmington Bottle Hoard of 2010 will be burned into my bottle diggin brain for life. I coined the term for the great discovery. It was posted here by the Wilmington Bottle Boys (I think that is right), this was a Tnet user, I think they are still around on Tnet, always posted good stuff. Anyway, they got a lead on a good site from a homeless man, found it, got permission, dug it and holy crap they found a bonanza of good glass. But as usual, the story hit the crapper, people wanted to know what they did for the homeless guy. Well, they gave the homeless guy a fair cut but that was not good enough. The post went south quick and the poster pulled the post, and I dont blame him. It was just an awesome rarely seen hoard of good glass. I know you must remember that one Carl. Think back, you must remember. They pulled hundreds of goods out of the basement of an old medicine/doctor/pharm shop somewhere in Wilmington, a truly rare and thrilling discovery. It was awesome. They set up all the pieces in the driveway and it looked like a forest of bottles, hundreds, I think into the thousand range, many rare nice pieces. Tens of the aqua plain ones similar to the one shown on this thread, all pontiled. A lot of the stuff was pontiled. A few big rare pontiled gallon black glass bottles, truly rare cache not to be seen again any time soon.

I do remember it now that you mentioned the story.
it's still posted on the Antiques Bottle Forum site, and I swear an abridged form was in some magazine.
It even had a bunch of crazy wooden side plates to various establishments.
Carl

 

[steve71]

what a bummer its broke just like when i find a sweet point then no tip

 

[GatorBoy]

I know right... that's been my luck lately. look found this last week

 

[steve71]

is that petridiedwood point?

 

[GatorBoy]

fossil coral