Old Bottle From Flea Market

[coinman123]

I bought this bottle at a flea market a few weeks back. It looks to be quite old, hand blown, and likely dug. It has a cork sticking out of the top, but I highly doubt that it is original to the bottle. It measures about 10 inches tall, and appears to be made out of black glass, with tons of bubbles (including one that is at least 3 inches long), a large pontil scar, a very rough surface, and some minor cracks that didn't seem to break the bottle. There is also a strange random patch on one side of it too, seen the last photo. The seller only wanted $1 for it, and I couldn't pass it up. I'm curious how old this bottle likely is, and what it was probably used for.

 

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[ARC]

You've got yourself a beauty.

Super pick.

 

[trdking]

Looks like an old cognac bottle but I am no expert

 

[Dug]

"The seller only wanted $1 for it,". Well if that isn't a vulgar display of good fortune

Definitely old with a pontil mark and the typical patina you would see on an early black glass that has been in wet ground for a long time. As a wag I'm thinking mid to late 1700s.

 

[coinman123]

"The seller only wanted $1 for it,". Well if that isn't a vulgar display of good fortune

Definitely old with a pontil mark and the typical patina you would see on an early black glass that has been in wet ground for a long time. As a wag I'm thinking mid to late 1700s.

Thanks for the ID and reply! If you are correct, than this would be the oldest intact bottle in my collection! Hopefully eventually I will be lucky enough to pull one out of the ground myself, though for now I am more than happy with having one that I found at a flea market.

 

[villagenut]

Nice laid-on ring as a finish. Yea, I would have snatched it up too.

 

[Plumbata]

Wow I wasn't expecting to see such a nice bottle, looks like a brandy or liqueur bottle, I'd guess early 19th century. Not every day that ya find attractive pontiled bottles for sale for a buck!

 

[coinman123]

Wow I wasn't expecting to see such a nice bottle, looks like a brandy or liqueur bottle, I'd guess early 19th century. Not every day that ya find attractive pontiled bottles for sale for a buck!

Thanks! Typically the only pontiled bottles I see are online, or in broken fragments in old trash piles. When I saw the pontil on this one, I knew I found something cool. I was a bit surprised to see this bottle among all the modern decorative bottles that everyone else was selling there.