Strange Flask in Savannah

[Bharpring]

Dug this bottle today in Savannah GA. Can anyone ID it and date it?

 

[sandchip]

Man, I don't have a clue. Sure has all the characteristics of a whiskey flask except for the offset neck which reminds me of a poison. It does appear to be a late handblown, tooled top bottle dating right around 1900. All I can say is that today's motor oil bottles aren't a new idea after all.

 

[Crusty Shellback]

Cool bottle, never saw one of those before.

 

[treasurekidd]

It reminds me of an older version of a glass refrigerator water bottle, similar to some of these, but older:

https://www.google.com/search?q=vin...W8lXIEHcjDBM8Q_AUoAnoECAsQBA&biw=1920&bih=940

 

[NJKLAGT]

Weird. Maybe they needed to distinguish a certain product from the rest, possibly because it was dangerous like sandchip said, and they altered an existing whiskey mould, out of laziness or to save money? I'm curious to see how far up the bottle this seam goes. If it goes part way up the neck, we know that it is a unique mould. But if it ends somewhere below the neck, it's possible that they chopped off a bit of the highest portion of an existing mould, to allow them to put in their gather of glass off to one side. Maybe this glasshouse had a lot of whiskey moulds and didn't mind parting with one in order to offer something different. It's a weird theory but it's worth a shot. Truly a very odd bottle!

EDIT: Hmm, looking more closely now, it appears the seam might go up the neck, but from this picture it's hard to tell if it's the seam, or just the straw marks.



EDIT 2: Okay, never mind. sanchip you must have good eyes! I couldn't tell patina/dirt/straw marks from the seam in almost all of these pics. But just now I spotted this one tiny giveaway, this is the only picture where I can see the seam going up the neck, maybe I have to get my eyes checked. This is a unique mould, not altered. Oh well, it was fun to speculate.

 

[sandchip]

The mold lines go almost all the way to the top, about halfway up the collar, diagnostic of a bottle blown by hand in a full-height blowback mold, where the top was formed in the mold too and only tooling of the very top was needed. The gather lines or ground lines visible in pics 6 & 8 tell a lot about the mold and the blowing. I don't know why, but the bottle just makes me think furniture polish for some stupid reason.

 

[epackage]

It's a whiskey flask, I've seen it before, cool because of the offset neck, if it had the original label it would be KILLER...

 

[sandchip]

It's a whiskey flask, I've seen it before...

I'll accept that. If the guy gets so drunk that he misses his mouth, he has a 50/50 chance of hitting it anyway. Ingenious.

 

[Bass]

I really like the “wonkiness” of this flask. Agree that it is a flask. Cool looking piece

 

[Bharpring]

I showed it to a local collector and he said that he had one in his collection that he had acquired from a local digger years ago and was told it was a preachers flask.

 

[Bharpring]

It's a whiskey flask, I've seen it before, cool because of the offset neck, if it had the original label it would be KILLER...

I found this whiskey flask at the same site a few weeks ago. The label disintegrated in less than 5 mins out of the ground.

 

[A2coins]

I'll accept that. If the guy gets so drunk that he misses his mouth, he has a 50/50 chance of hitting it anyway. Ingenious.

Thats hillarious but I bet a person who drinks alot invented it lol Great find Ive never seen one before good info epackage