Topic: Italian Bottle..

[Anne]

But why a hole in the side, Ray?   That's a puzzle...

Rose, is the hole just a hole, or is it access to a separate compartment within the bottle? I'm wondering if it was meant to keep something else in separate from the main bottle contents?  Like those ice-pouches we saw in the Nazeing jugs a while ago...

[Carolyn Preston]

But why a hole in the side, Ray?   That's a puzzle...

Rose, is the hole just a hole, or is it access to a separate compartment within the bottle? I'm wondering if it was meant to keep something else in separate from the main bottle contents?  Like those ice-pouches we saw in the Nazeing jugs a while ago...

Maybe olive oil and balsamic vinagar? Assuming that it is a separate section, of course.  :chky:

Carolyn

[antiquerose123]

But why a hole in the side, Ray?   That's a puzzle...Rose, is the hole just a hole, or is it access to a separate compartment within the bottle? I'm wondering if it was meant to keep something else in separate from the main bottle contents?  Like those ice-pouches we saw in the Nazeing jugs a while ago...

Do you have a picture/link to those *Nazeing jugs?*  And maybe I will put some water to see what happens.  Good suggestion Carolyn Preston...will try water

[Anne]

Rose have a look at this topic where they were discussed and there's a pic to an ice-pouch jug: http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,8347.0.html

[antiquerose123]

But why a hole in the side, Ray?   That's a puzzle...

Rose, is the hole just a hole, or is it access to a separate compartment within the bottle? I'm wondering if it was meant to keep something else in separate from the main bottle contents?  Like those ice-pouches we saw in the Nazeing jugs a while ago...

All I can say to you Ann is B-I-N-G-O. Yes the hole in the side must be for putting ice in. I said in my very first post that it looked there was a light bulb inside, and was confused....  When you look down from the top, the inside of the bottom makes it look like a bulb (the curve, actually look convex from the top ).  Even when I first opened it the little lion head door on the side, and (merely) peeked inside.....and saw just glass...never noticed it, as it like an *optical illusion* when you look....it just looks like the bottle itself...

I was a little confuse as to why when I looked down the top (with no light from the lion head door when not open -- HONEST -- you would swear there was a bulb there...I guess it is the direction, light, etc to perceive that.

But NO -- the side where the lion head IS a round additional pocket for whatever.  That is neat, Never saw that before...Mystery solved, now if we could find a link on the web to see further info, and why..

You won Ann, mystery solved....I would have (and obviously) never would have figured that out.  I would be still thinking it was a lamp base....even my son was fooled.  THANKs :hiclp: :hiclp:

[Lustrousstone]

It would be a jug for white wine with a pocket for ice. A great big jar of wine doesn't look very good on your table and hard to cool...

[antiquerose123]

*click the light bulb* goes on in my head...

And see, when you look down the mouth of the bottle...and as when I started this post, I thought it looked like a light bulb inside, but see....so when you look down the mouth....it IS the curved part of the pocket within the bottle that a person is seeing....so that it why it looked like a *light bulb* to me...

But Ann figured it out...bravo Ann, bravo....and thanks again :hiclp: :hiclp: