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| Dating your finds can be a hit and
miss affair as most manufacturing teqhniques would overlap by
as much as twenty years or so,but as a rough guide you can use
the diagrams below which show the progression of both mould seams
and lip manufacture and a rough guide to when these techniques
were being employed.In general,If it looks old(i.e full of seed
bubbles,is slightly coloured,is crudely made)then it probably
is.For further reading I can reccomend:- Bottle collecting and collecting Pot-lids both by Edward Fletcher Bottles and Bottlecollecting A.A.C.Hedges The Warners reference guide Ed Ojea and Jack Stecher Sealed bottles Roy Morgan Collecting pottery A.Ball(although pottery does include some ginger beers and pot-lids) Collecting "quack" cures Alan McEwan The victorian chemist and druggist W.A.Jackson There is also a magazine I subscribe to The peoples mag(Bottles Pot-lids and advertising available by calling UK 01379890110 or Robbie(on the links page can send you a copy for a few dollars.) |
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SEAMS 1/Sheared lip 2/Before 1820 3/After 1820 4/3piece mould after 1820 5/Applied lip after 1872 6/Modern machine made after 1900 |
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LIPS 1/Freeblown 2/Sheared 3/Rolled 4/Flared 5/Laid on ring 6/Applied 7/Internal screw 8/Blob top to take a cork. 9/Blob top internal screw 10/Improved applied lip 11/Improved applied on three piece mould 12/20th centuary lip 13/Collar below lip 14/Codd,s lip |
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| Year | Month | Class | |||||
| A | 1845,1871 | N | 1864 | C | Jan | I | Metal |
| B | 1858 | O | 1862 | G | Feb | II | Wood |
| C | 1844,1870 | P | 1851,1877 | W | Mar | III | Glass |
| D | 1852,1878 | Q | 1866 | H | April | IV | Ceramic |
| E | 1855,1881 | R | 1861 | E | May | V | Wallpaper |
| F | 1847,1873 | S | 1859,1875 | M | Jun | VI | Carpet |
| G | 1863 | T | 1867 | I | July | VII | Shawls |
| H | 1843,1869 | U | 1848,1874 | R | Aug | VIII | Shawls |
| I | 1846,1872 | V | 1850,1876 | D | Sept | IX | Yarn |
| J | 1845,1880 | W | 1865 | B | Oct | X | Fabric |
| K | 1857,1883 | X | 1842,1868 | K | Nov | XI | Fabric |
| L | 1856,1882 | Y | 1853,1879 | A | Dec | XII | Fabric |
| M | 1859 | Z | 1860 | X!!! | Lace |
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