Black Glass with a Label

[Road Dog]

Any thoughts on this one Harry?

 

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[crazyjarhead]

Only found this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porter_(beer)

 

[Road Dog]

Lots of info on Hibbert.
http://books.google.com/books?id=_t...&sqi=2&ved=0CBMQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=e &f=false

 

[Harry Pristis]

Any thoughts on this one Harry?

Thoughts? . . . . . . I think it's a cool little bottle! Labels on beer bottles of this age are rare, rare, rare. I know that I don't have one with a label, though I have a few smaller black bottles like this. What are the dimensions of this bottle?

Wasn't the back-story of this bottle that someone had found a case of these empties, and you had managed to acquire this one from that group? Found here, in the Northeast somewhere.

Here are a couple on my shelf; but, they look kinda' drab next to yours.

 

[Road Dog]

I got 2 items from a fella that won a box lot at an auction. Sounds like an interesting story. Anymore details? I'll measure the bottle when I get home. Nice bottles in the pic. I like that one on the right.

 

[Road Dog]

Been trying to date this bottle. You'd think with a label it wouldn't be too hard? Appear to have been sold in pints and quarts in cases of 1 dozen.

 

[Road Dog]

Harry the bottle is 2 7/8" dia and 8" tall. Bottle is a 3 piece mold.

 

[Harry Pristis]

[size=14pt]Judging from Roger Dumbrell's line-drawings of British lip finishes, I'd say that your bottle dates to post-1850 (but, not too long after 1850, say up to 1870).

You're right, the label should be a more accurate way to date the bottle. I did a preliminary www search, but didn't find anything useful. What you may want to do is to get onto a British bottle web-forum. A Liverpool collector once got me some useful info from that city's business directory from the 1820s!

 

[Road Dog]

Thanks Harry, I just emailed a fellow over there who heads up those forums. I found pics of a couple labels that were in a museum in Canada supposedly from 1850-85, but they didn't look like mine. Hibbert did make different types of beers though. Maybe , Mark over in England will have some luck.