Dark green wine bottle

[cmthunder]

Found this wine bottle at 1860 old home site in Cecil County Maryland.
CAn anyone help with info?
Has concave bottom with interlocking chain pattern?
Has WP 501 inside bottom on one side and
2 some kind of makers mark then 51.
Thanks

 

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[villagenut]

I am afraid its not old....machine made

 

[Red-Coat]

That's an Owens-Illinois Glass Company mark in the centre.



The number '2' at the left is the plant code for Huntington, West Virginia (opened in 1930). At the right is the date code. I can clearly see the '5' but the '1' is less clear to me. I'll take your word for it that it is actually '51', in which case the bottle was produced in 1951. For what or who, I have no idea.

 

[releventchair]

Reminds me of champagne bottles for new years eve.
The bottom with the depth it has , is designed for high pressure.
With champagne (sparkling wine if not from Champagne) undergoing a deliberate secondary fermentation creates that high pressure. Easy enough to add a small amount of sugar while bottling wine with still active yeast in it. Though alcohol kills yeast after a certain amount. So yeast type matters...

Wines not treated with something (sulfites are common) to kill yeast to prevent a secondary fermentation , can on occasion see a secondary fermentation in bottle.
A pleasant surprise to have sparkling wine result that way , but not if the bottle bursts...
So, with wines not using sulfites , the strong bottle is the/my choice.

The option is a weaker cork or plug that blows before the bottle breaks.
Thought I smelled perfume in the house . Till I checked my homemade wine stash in the basement I didn't use sulfite in.
Yep. One batch had underwent a secondary fermentation...
(Only a couple blown corks. l.o.l..)

 

[Harry Pristis]

​It appears to be a champagne split.