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sheared top with applied ring wine or ale black glass or dark amber |
1720s - 1800s |
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sheared top with applied lip wine |
1740s - 1800s |
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sheared top tooled common to snuff bottles and food bottles |
1800s -1850s |
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sheared lip bottle cut from blow pipe fire polished smooth common on hand blown flasks |
1700s - 1860s |
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inward rolled lip glass folded inward, crude, uneven |
1700s - 1870s |
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outward rolled lip glass folded out and down, crude, uneven |
1700s - 1870s |
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applied tapered lip crude shape and drippy bottom seam stops below lip common on early medicines |
1830s-1870s |
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applied single collar lip hand formed, crude, drippy bottom |
1850s-1870s |
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applied blob top seam ends below lip, crude shape common on sodas, beers, and mineral waters |
1840s -1880s |
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gravitating stopper patented by John Matthews New York Oct 11 1864 found on soda bottles |
1865 - 1880s |
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codd bottle patented in 1872 uses a marble and rubber stopper to seal mostly used in Great Britain image supplied by Harry Pristis |
1873 - 1910s |
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Baltimore loop looks like blob top on outside inside of mouth has an ring shaped depression seam ends below lip used on beer and soda bottles |
1885 - 1900s |
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Hutchinson stopper seam stops at lip found on Hutchinson type sodas used a spring loaded wire and rubber seal |
1879 - 1910s |
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tooled tapered lip with collar seam stops below lip top formed with a tool that had profile of lip common on whisky bottles |
1880s - 1910s |
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flat applied lip no seam, early versions have drippy bottom later versions are more uniform common on patent medicines |
1840s - 1880s |
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sheared top with tooled ring lip fire polished seam stops below lip common on wines and flasks image supplied by Harry Pristis |
1850s - 1890s |
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burst top no finished lip bottle broken off blow pipe, rough and sharp often mistaken for a sheared top or a broken bottle most common on English Victorian inks |
1860s - 1900 |
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Flat Tooled uniform shape, no drippy bottom seam stops part way up neck circular tool marks often seen around neck |
1880s-1910s |
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Tooled Ring uniform shape, no drippy bottom seam stops part way up neck circular tool marks often seen around neck |
1890s-1910s |
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tooled tapered lip uniform shape, no drippy bottom seam stops part way up neck common on medicines |
1880s - 1910s |
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early threaded cap bottle used a screw cap (probably zinc) a neck ring and threads were part of the mold the seam stops just above the threads the top was sheared and fire polished common on early catsup, sauce, and food bottles |
1880s - 1910s |
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tooled crown top patented in 1892 by W. Painter seam stops below lip common on sodas and beers image supplied by Harry Pristis |
1892 -1910s |
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machine made crown top seam runs to top of bottle common on sodas and beers |
1903 - Preset |
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machine made metal cap top seam runs to top used a metal cap with twisted wire seal common on medicines |
1930s - 1950s |
