Found this piece of seaglass today, what does the number mean?

[Elva]

Found this piece of sea glass on the shores of Washington today and wondering what the number is, what it means, how old is it? The color of the glass is green.

 

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[Woodland Detectors]

[FONT=sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica, Geneva]Many bottles carry only a number (or numbers) on the base. These marks usually served as some type of mold identification, indicating a particular mold used by a glass factory. If a number of identical molds were produced for making a certain type of bottle, they would often be serially numbered (such as 1 to 12). Some numbers served as date codes, or as some other type of internal code used by the factory. In the great majority of cases, bottles with only numbers on the base are difficult, if not impossible, to attribute to a specific glass maker. Hope 5this helps[/FONT]

 

[Woodland Detectors]

[FONT=sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica, Geneva]A lot of glass bottles carry only a number on the base. Marks served as type of mold identification, suggesting a specific mold used by a glass company, or factory. . If a number of identical molds were produced for making a certain type of bottle, they would often be serially numbered (like 1-12) . Some numbers served as date codes, or as some other identification from factory. In majority of cases, bottles with only numbers on the base are tough to figure out, if not impossible, to attribute to a specific bottle maker. Hop this helps. [/FONT]

 

[Elva]

Thank you, it helps a lot. Helps me in deciding what I want to do with this piece.

I also did some research Woodland, after your comment. I found out this is a Mould number used by Dominion Glass Co. in Canada. Which makes sense because Canada is not too far from Washington. Looks like they are a combination of glass companies that combined in 1913 to form the Dominion Glass Company and the Mould number 552 was used in making perfume bottles that were mfg'd 1890-1913. I'm feeling this is a great find. Definitely will not be making jewelry out of it. May keep it with my other vintage/antique findings.

 

[Steveo]

Neat looking..........................

 

[TENNESSEEGAL]

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Found this piece of sea glass on the shores of Washington today and wondering what the number is, what it means, how old is it? The color of the glass is green.

That is a neat piece of sea glass!