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Early glass.
'Early glass' is used here as a term to describe all glass bottles early enough to be pontilled but which don't fall into the patent medicines category. It includes wine bottles, pontilled utility bottles, and all others with pontil marks.
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1. A group of English freeblown sealed wine bottles ranging in date from about 1760 or 1770 to about 1800, illustrating some of the variation in body, neck and lip shape in these classic bottles during this period. Most of these have a known provenance. From left to right: WCG (or WGC) / Zeals; WA (William Asheton); ASCR (All Souls Common Room); IBB (John Braddon, Bridge Rule); TDB (unknown); I Watson Esqr / Bilton (John Watson of Bilton Park near Knaresborough in Yorkshire). (Darren). |
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2. A different view of the WA, Zeals and ASCR bottles, with the addition of a rare half-size bottle with the seal of I C Hoffman. This is a slightly later bottle, probably dating to about 1810 - 1820, and probably belonged to the same Hoffman who is well known to collectors for his salt glazed preserve jars, for products such as Rassberry (sic) Jam. (Darren). |
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3. An English freeblown cylinder wine bottle dating to about 1790 - 1800. The seal consists of the initials J H either side of the head of a stag, above the date 1743. The initials are believed to be those of John Fothergill of Kingthorpe House near Pickering in Yorkshire. (Darren) |
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4. Theree freeblown cylinders with seals of William Strickland of Boynton Hall in Yorkshire. The two on the left are dated 1809, which is probably the year they were made (the same year that William Strickland succeeded to the Baronetcy). The right hand bottle is undated but is later in style and probably dates to about 1820. These used to be in Jerry's collection but have now moved on to pastures new.
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5. A classic onion shaped English wine bottle, about 6" tall and dating to about 1700. (Darren) |
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6. A very different kind of sealed bottle. This small (about 7" tall) dark aqua glass, sand pontilled utility bottle was discovered in the Humberside area in 2007. It probably dates to the 1840s or 50s, and has a very crudely applied lip. The seal just has the initials C. H. which present a bit of a mystery. This is one of Darren's bottles. He also has in his collection a flint glass pontilled mustard bottle dating to about 1820 - 1840 and embossed 'C. H. & Co / Hull'. There may be some connection between the two bottles, although it has not so far been possible to identify who CH might have been. (Darren) |
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7. An English dip moulded, sand pontilled wide mouth utility bottle dating to about 1800 - 1820. Bottles of this type are generally called snuff bottles by collectors, and although they often did contain snuff they were also probably widely used for other powdered goods, including foodstuffs. Very similar bottles are known which still have labels for mustard, and for pharmaceutical products or medicines. This bottle was found in downtown Sydney, Australia, during building work in the 1970s. (Jerry) |
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8. A two pint pontilled American scroll flask in aqua glass, dating to about the 1840s. A huge and fragile survivor. Bottles of this age and size are very rarely found in Britain. (Darren) |
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