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Early Forms 1800-1830 |
1820-1830 |
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Early Forms 1800-1830 |
1820-1830 |
Characteristics: Crude forms rarely embossed.
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Mid-Century Forms 1840-1870 |
1850s |
1840-1855 |
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1860-1870 |
1845-1855 |
1840-1860 |
Characteristics: Crudely applied lips, hinge mold or pontil marked bases are typical before 1860. Applied lips globby are common through the 1870s. Earlier lips may be in rolled or out rolled as shown in the first picture above.
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End of Century Forms 1870-1912 |
1910 |
1900 |
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1900 |
1912 |
1900 |
Characteristics: Tooled lips on hand blown bottles. Bottles are rarely crude but may have bubbles.
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Modern Machine Forms 1920-1950 More about |
1920s |
1920s |
Characteristics Similar form to earlier bottles in many cases but machine made.
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