✅ SOLVED Reproduction or the real deal?

[pepperj]

It's listed on an auction site. Thinking about getting it maybe.

Alexander Sword Hand-Blown Olive Green Demijohn-Style Bottle with advertisement

Antique hand-blown round-bodied glass demijohn-style bottle in olive green, advertising "Alexander Sword", approx 12 in tall

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[tamrock]

That etching imo is recently done. I'm thinking was done with an electric vibrating etching pen.

 

[Red-Coat]

Nice. It looks like an authentic 1800s Scottish ‘shaft and globe’ bottle to me, and I believe the engraving to be original. These kinds of bottles were ‘chip-engraved’ by progressively removing tiny fragments of glass with a sharp tool or small grinding wheel, producing a very distinctive appearance. Like these:

Did you find a wine or spirits merchant named Alexander Sword from that period? I did a quick Google, but nothing came up. Could have been someone quite small or short-lived though.

 

[tamrock]

Nice. It looks like an authentic 1800s Scottish ‘shaft and globe’ bottle to me, and I believe the engraving to be original. These kinds of bottles were ‘chip-engraved’ by progressively removing tiny fragments of glass with a sharp tool or small grinding wheel, producing a very distinctive appearance. Like these:

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Did you find a wine or spirits merchant named Alexander Sword from that period? I did a quick Google, but nothing came up. Could have been someone quite small or short-lived though.

Coming from you sounds good to me. I know very little if anything about things like this. I just become suspicious when I think. How could I make etchings like it on an unbroken almost 190 year old glass bottle. Go for Pepperj.

 

[Gene Mean]

Very nice looking bottle. As Red-Coat said, not a lot on Alexander Sword. It does have that chipped engraving look that RC mentioned. I would buy it based on what RC posted.

 

[Red-Coat]

I believe ‘Alexander Sword’ would be the name of someone in the wines & spirits trade, and nothing to do with Alexander the Great. That’s what the names on these bottle usually represent.

I haven’t searched extensively in trade directories, but there was a Sword (with spelling variants of Sworde) family in Falkirk, Scotland who were prominent and influential business and property owners dating back to late 1700s. An Alexander Sword acquired land in Mungal (within the parish of Falkirk) in 1783. There he had a family home built (Mungalhead House), adjacent to a brewhouse which he ran, as well as farming the land. For some reason, the family never lived in the house; he rented it out and lived in the farmhouse. Among the family there was also an Andrew Sword(e), described as a farmer and a brewer. He married the widower Isabella Risk in 1819 and consequently became owner of the Crown Inn in Falkirk High Street that had belonged to Isabella’s first husband.

 

[Gene Mean]

I guess that´s just Ai putting 2+2 together, even if it´s wrong.

 

[ToddsPoint]

That etching imo is recently done. I'm thinking was done with an electric vibrating etching pen.

This is a shot glass I engraved with a vibrating electric engraver. It’s easy to do but has a different look than the bottle.

 

[tamrock]

This is a shot glass I engraved with a vibrating electric engraver. It’s easy to do but has a different look than the bottle.View attachment 2243085

That's pretty nifty TP.

 

[ARC]

It's listed on an auction site. Thinking about getting it maybe.
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Alexander Sword Hand-Blown Olive Green Demijohn-Style Bottle with advertisement

Antique hand-blown round-bodied glass demijohn-style bottle in olive green, advertising "Alexander Sword", approx 12 in tall

maxsold.com

looks good to me... VERY cool piece.

 

[Fredneck]

The disc pontil scar on the bottom is proper for the date on the bottle. Could be a Tavern bottle, or the name could be of the prominent customer the spirit was made for, similar to the glass seals that were applied to bottles 100 years earlier.

 

[Gare]

GREAT Job ALL!!!

 

[Chilli]

It's listed on an auction site. Thinking about getting it maybe.
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Alexander Sword Hand-Blown Olive Green Demijohn-Style Bottle with advertisement

Antique hand-blown round-bodied glass demijohn-style bottle in olive green, advertising "Alexander Sword", approx 12 in tall

maxsold.com

Site said it sold for 95 bucks. Were you the buyer in the end?

 

[Centsless Detecting]

Gotta love the picture of the guy barley holding the bottle over a stone floor.

 

[pepperj]

Site said it sold for 95 bucks. Were you the buyer in the end?

The 9 part scared me off.
I have seen this one before in my travels, I think it sold some years back and I was leery of it then.