unclemac
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I am unfamiliar with this puppy...what was it...age contents etc?...anyone?
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Harry Pristis
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It appears to be from an 1880s pickle jar. Here's an image of two small ones, but I have some of these jars that are up to 13 inches tall.
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Beautiful bottles! Nice ID!
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i dont want to disagree with harry, but the applied lip on tha piece looka a bit more crude than the 1880s pickle bottles i have seen. i just have a feeling it is 1870s or maybe even 1860s... correct if im wrong though.
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The wide mouth and classic pickle design makes it a pickle. Age is anyone's guess, I say post-pontil, because it is not so fancy.
Harry Pristis
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I think 'gleaner1' is correct. These pickle jars became less and less ornate as time passed. Pontil-scarred, ornate, often green jars in the 1850s transitioned into the graceful, but unadorned jars of the 1880s and 1890s. Here's an example of a smooth-based, somewhat ornamented jar from the 1870s.
Harry Pristis
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The transition of these pickle jars may have been more abrupt than gradual. I checked The Bertrand Bottles (steamboat sunk in the Missouri River in April of 1865) for cathedral pickles jars. There are a good number of ornate molds represented, most of them familiar from bottle auctions.
