Initial thoughts?

[gentleone444]

Garage sale finds...no seams...ill post more pics soon

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[bottlehunterofcoscob]

No seams would mean they were made with a turn mold technique. Both are wines. The tall teal one has a nice color. It's called a hock wine.

 

[gentleone444]

Ok so not hand blown? You think not pre 1900?

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[sandchip]

Hand blown but rotated in the mold before removal, resulting in obliteration of any mold lines. Probably date around the turn of the century.

 

[Harry Pristis]

In estimating the age of these bottles, examine the crudeness of the lip finish. Is the lip sheared (broken) from the blow-pipe? Is the string applied separately or molded on the bottle? Is the string tooled or is it as it was spun out upon the neck? Hand-finished bottles often have twisting stretch marks in the neck.

From your image, these two wine bottles don't look very old.

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[cje]

Great info Harry.

 

[gentleone444]

Heres some better pics fellas

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[gentleone444]

As far as my research I read that the turn mold technique was used between 1850 and 1915

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