175 year old free blown glass bottle! Beautiful!

[GatorBoy]

The thing about it is I know where it came from and occupation of that site ended in 1842.. Those bottles are so common at the forts of that period Here..1835-1842.. they're often called fort glass.

 

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[GatorBoy]

Donny... on any of the botle bottoms you have do you see a milky blue color in some of the Glass?
Also in all the sifting you said you have done have you recovered any military buttons?
Please tell me you have a decent metal detector

 

[Bass]

From the Historical Glass Bottle Identification and Information Website. Another method to often differentiate a dip molded bottle from a similar free-blown bottle is to look at the junction between the body and shoulder. Dip molded bottles will very often have a distinct discontinuity in the glass appearance right at the break between the the body and shoulder due to the "blow-over" effect induced by the mold ending at that point; i.e., essentially an "end-of-the-mold" mark. This shoulder discontinuity could also be considered as a type of mold seam, though not with the typical look of regular mold seams where two parts of a mold come together (Shafer 1969; Jones 1986; Deiss pers. comm. 2005). This shoulder discontinuity is easier to see than describe and is shown distinctly in the picture at the following link - dip mold bottle shoulder - which is a close-up of the bottle to the left. This is a dip molded ale or liquor bottle with a glass-tipped pontil scar that dates from the 1850s. The picture also shows the glass surface texture difference between the body (slightly wavy or rough) and the shoulder (smooth and glossy). This shoulder mold seam or discontinuity can be observed on any shape of bottle that could be dip molded, though on square bottles it is not usually as obvious as on a round bottle



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[GatorBoy]

If that is the case with his bottle then my mistake was taking his word for the fact he was digging Second Seminole War artifacts... I was kind of leading to that end by asking about any other artifacts I think I see the transition you're talking about in his example

 

[Bass]

Well, what i was going to say next is, Donny needs to look at his bottle closely and see if there is a horizontal line on the shoulder of the bottle, just below the neck. It could be very faint and not easily seen. It could be a difference in the texture of the glass. Hard to tell without having someone with experience see the bottle in person and make the call.

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[Bass]

He has a great bottle regardless of how old it is or whether it was free-blown or a 3 pc mold. But i'm still going with 3 pc mold.

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[Guest 1551]

Donny... on any of the botle bottoms you have do you see a milky blue color in some of the Glass?
Also in all the sifting you said you have done have you recovered any military buttons?
Please tell me you have a decent metal detector

military buttons none yet. but we have every reason (and experts have agreed with us) that a seminole outpost was here in the year 1840.

He has a great bottle regardless of how old it is or whether it was free-blown or a 3 pc mold. But i'm still going with 3 pc mold.

Thanks man!

 

[GatorBoy]

Those buttons should be all over the place at least the pewter undergarment ones... Have you found any of those?
Like was said it's a great bottle regardless but I actually looked back in your posts and most of what I see looks later 1800's to me

 

[Guest 1551]

Those buttons should be all over the place at least the pewter undergarment ones... Have you found any of those?
Like was said it's a great bottle regardless but I actually looked back in your posts and most of what I see looks later 1800's to me

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I do have permission to hunt a lot right next to where a second Seminole war fort used to be. And yes I do have a better detector now. (fisher f2)

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