Green bottle, need help with base pic

[CoilyGirl]

Hello friends! Been a long time. Can someone help me with the base on this bottle, figuring out the maker etc? It belongs to a friend of ours. Thank you in advance.

 

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[CoilyGirl]

No one? Hope my post is showing up correctly.

 

[Blackfoot58]

Hello friends! Been a long time. Can someone help me with the base on this bottle, figuring out the maker etc? It belongs to a friend of ours. Thank you in advance. View attachment 2074271

Is that the bottom? It looks like the side, with the neck pointing upwards.

 

[NJKLAGT]

It looks like a modern or vintage bottle that's supposed to look like an old colonial wine bottle or something. I'll try to explain why: one thing would be the seemingly intentional bubbling in the glass. Although you do often see very "seedy" chestnut flasks and other types of early bottles, this bubbling just doesn't look natural, it looks like a deliberate aesthetic choice. Second, the glass itself is too perfect and uniform in composition, completely free from any impurities whatsoever. I'm not saying that it should have a bunch of chunks floating around in it and swirls of other colours and all that, but this glass looks like you couldn't find an anomaly looking at it under a microscope. And lastly, the wet high-gloss surface of the glass, not a stain or scratch or scuff of any sort on there. You do sometimes see old glass come of out storage or the attic like this, but considering the other factors I'm going to guess that wasn't the case, I think this is a newer bottle made to look old. This is the kind of bottle that'd be fun to drink out of, it'd be fun to serve something out of this at a family dinner or gathering. Take care of it until you find out for sure though! We're only going off one picture here, and it's still a pretty bottle

 

[Blackfoot58]

My mom had a set of water glasses with the same color and similar pattern. They were about 12 oz. Glasses. I wonder if this would be a serving pitcher for a similar set. Hers were new in the mid to late 1970s

 

[Red-Coat]

Cool bottle, but it would help if you showed it in full. You inferred that the mark is on the base, but is that actually the case? Is it not on the body or the shoulder?

Nevertheless, it’s a Williamsburg VA reproduction of a historic Jamestown bottle (likely a wine bottle). The ‘J’ with two stars in a circle was Jamestown’s seal. Usually these are reproductions of ‘onion’ (shape) bottles which may or may not have a handle. They’re often hand-blown in a traditional manner, with deliberate bubbles in the glass to simulate antiquity. The maker of yours has gone way over the top with the bubbles! It's likely not hand-blown.

These reproductions are no older than ‘vintage’ and usually from the 1960s. Lots of examples, but here are a few:

 

[CoilyGirl]

Thank you for your responses everyone. I thought it could not be old as well. That’s the only picture he provided for us though and it was the neck of the bottle.