Are these bottles old?

[Garabaldi]

Can anyone give me a date and a source on how old these bottles are? Thank you.

 

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[Curious The George]

Depends on what you consider old to be. Are they 100 years old, no. Are they more than 50 years old, likely. Could they be 30-40 years old, possibly.

 

[hogge]

Depends on what you consider old to be. Are they 100 years old, no. Are they more than 50 years old, likely. Could they be 30-40 years old, possibly.

Gotta laugh at this one. Kinda like a weathermans prediction. "Fair to partly cloudy, with a slight chance of a shower". All kidding aside.......Late 1800's- early 1900's.

 

[Curious The George]

Depends on what you consider old to be. Are they 100 years old, no. Are they more than 50 years old, likely. Could they be 30-40 years old, possibly.

Gotta laugh at this one. Kinda like a weathermans prediction. "Fair to partly cloudy, with a slight chance of a shower". All kidding aside.......Late 1800's- early 1900's.

Gotta disagree with your dating. The first automated bottle making machinery didn't come on line until about 1890. They formed the body of the bottle and a person finished the neck and mouth. You can tell bottles made on those machines by the round circle on the bottom where the glass was sucked up into the mold. And further by the seam line blending into the glass just above the shoulder of the bottle. The neck and mouth will have rotary lines around it where the bottle was turned while a person was finishing the shape. They didn't have stamped numbers on the bottom because technology wasn't there yet.

Around 1915-20 fully automated bottle making started and you can tell that the neck and mouth of the bottle was machine made from the seam lines of the mold going all the way to the top. And the cavity of the mold could have letters and numbers inserted in it. The letters, numbers and the recess in the bottom of the mold that the slug holding them fit in leaves a mark, small seam mark around the writing.

What I see is bottles that have letters and or numbers on the bottom and seam lines going all the way to the top. Makes them ca. 1920 or even later.

 

[AU24K]

Those are some nice bottles---at least I like 'em!

How did you come about them?
Tryin' to sell 'em?

Best,
Scott

 

[Garabaldi]

Thanks for all your input.
I found these bottles in the woods while metal detecting. They were sitting on top of the ground exposed. I couldn't believe no one has found them.

 

[AU24K]

Son,
You need to really check out this area...I found an area once not long ago that produced bottles and such like you show, maybe newer, and I found a Zippo lighter. I sent it in and it was a rare, personally engraved, Viet-Nam lighter from about 1967. I gave it to my friend after I had sent it in and it was restored for FREE!

Let's go find more goodies!!!
Best,
Scott

 

[BttleDiggerDrew]

Well, all the bottles you show what appears to be an "Owens Ring" , which would give it a dating of the 1920's. By the way, does that cobalt blue bottle say "Bromo-Seltzer" embossed on the side? If so, its not really valuable to collectors, however the artsy fartsy folk go nuts over these, to this day I still can't understand why.

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

I have to agree with hogge. Hard to see the seam (maybe my eyes are bad) on the cobalt blue may possibly be late 1800's, all the others early 1900s cork tops. We are now in 2010, so you do the math. Nice old bottles.

 

[DigginThePast]

Nice old bottles indeed. Those bottles may have been left in their position by a more advanced bottle collector in the hopes that someone new would find them and spark an interest in old bottles, and its looks to have worked. I don't consider myself to be an advanced collector but I can recognize some of the more common items and do leave them behind for others. Still, I believe they are a nice find.

As BCH was referring to with dating items. At times I forget what year we are in and that those items from the 20's and 30's are now 80-90 years old.

 

[cheese]

I find a lot just like those at the old town dump back in the woods. They're from around the teens to the thirties. Dig under them and you may find older ones. I dig at the dump and have found old straight side coke bottles and hutchinson bottles.

 

[Garabaldi]

I spoke to a bottle collector at my club and the blue bottle's seem ends three quarters up the neck, so he said it was late 1800's.

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

I spoke to a bottle collector at my club and the blue bottle's seem ends three quarters up the neck, so he said it was late 1800's.

Yes G, the cobalt blue bottle is late 1800's and the others are early 1900 machine made cork tops.

Its a medicine similar to Bromo-seltzer.

 

[Garabaldi]

I spoke to a bottle collector at my club and the blue bottle's seem ends three quarters up the neck, so he said it was late 1800's.

Yes G, the cobalt blue bottle is late 1800's and the others are early 1900 machine made cork tops.

Its a medicine similar to Bromo-seltzer.

Bigcy,
Are you saying you know what would have been inside the bottle?

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

I spoke to a bottle collector at my club and the blue bottle's seem ends three quarters up the neck, so he said it was late 1800's.

Yes G, the cobalt blue bottle is late 1800's and the others are early 1900 machine made cork tops.

Its a medicine similar to Bromo-seltzer.

Bigcy,
Are you saying you know what would have been inside the bottle?

Yes I have many of these cobalt blue medicine bottles. Some are embossed "BROMO-SELTZER" and some are labeled. Some are late 1800's and some are early 1900. If its not Bromo Seltzer, it would probably be something similar. Nice bottle. http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/vintage-bromo-seltzer-dispenser-base-and-bottle

 

[Garabaldi]

Thanks you bigcy, great pics and ID.