Topic: what SORT of bottle?

[Ivo]

Hmmmm - nice suggestion. Not wasps though - the opening is too small to get them out again.  Watering device for pigeons/ rabbits/ chickens might be another option.  Also, it does not stand comfortably, it wobbles. 

[johnphilip]

In that case it probably stands on its head in a cage that does make sense if you have kept Rabbits , RABBITS  RABBITS WHOAR , KIND PERMISSION OF BUGGS BUNNY. :chky: WALT DISNEY .

[Anne]

 :anb:

It's a bit wide to be one of those methinks JP? They usually clip to the side of a cage, don't they?

[Anne E.B.]

Could it be some sort of babies feeder bottle?  See here - scroll down to the illustration at the side of "teats over the ages" http://www.babybottle-museum.co.uk/articles.htm

[Ivo]

Yes nice find. I have several of these feeder bottles myself. The essence is that they can be filled and cleaned, which is quite a clever feature really. The bottle at issue cannot be opened, filled, or cleaned.  :pb:

[Anne]

Plant waterer perhaps....? invert it so it seeps into the soil as needed.

[Ivo]

That IS a very sensible suggestion, and it would work.  :hi:

[Ivo]

Patricia made a clever discovery in an old book on aLtare glass. The bottle is featured as a "traveller's bottle named "Of San Rocco" and allegedly in production at Altare in the 1860s. (still trying to decypher the detaails here). Rocco (Roche, Rock, Roc, Rok) was a popular saint - but no amount of googling brings up the bottle named after him. But at least - we now know where it was made, what for and when. I'm inclined to call that a triumph!

[flying free]

 :hiclp:  fantastic.  I love hearing when things are 'discovered'.  However, what was  it used for if it couldn't be cleaned?
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[Anne]

Ivo, do you recall that way back on the board (Sep 2005) we had someone called alteglass join who had a specific interest in Altare Glass and they posted their blog site http://vetroadaltare.blogspot.com/. Since then a lot more info has been added to the blog so it may be worth contacting them to see if they can help with your traveller's bottle.