Topic: Mystery bottle. What is it?

[RoynMargaret]

I have this bottle, the like of which I have never seen before (nor has Margaret and she is ex-president of a winemakers guild).

It is a finely blown bottle with a long neck and what looks like a bunch of grapes INSIDE the bottle but open to the air via a side vent.

Does it have a function or is it just a glass blower showing off his skills? It is along the same lines as a glass frigger ship inside a bottle.

Approx 30cm tall.

[keith]

Although I have not seen one like this there are bottles with an internal space for ice,would this be a fancy version? or am I piles,I mean miles away? :wsh:

[RoynMargaret]

Although I have not seen one like this there are bottles with an internal space for ice,would this be a fancy version? or am I piles,I mean miles away? :wsh:

How would you get the ice in?
However, it has been speculated that a coloured liquid could be put in the 'grapes'.

[chopin-liszt]

It's a liqueur bottle. You see loads of them in airport off-license placeys, all sorts of different bits inside, sometimes coloured too.

[RoynMargaret]

It's a liqueur bottle. You see loads of them in airport off-license placeys, all sorts of different bits inside, sometimes coloured too.

Ah well. The last time I was in an airport was 1992.  :hi: But I would like to see another example. It is very finely (fragile) blown to withstand commercial usage, especially with the long thin neck.

[chopin-liszt]

The only one I've been in where I've seen loads of these is London City - and yes, it was a few years ago. I'm not often in airports either. But they are commercial "gifty" sorts of things - when they still have their contents.

[johnphilip]

Sorry have i missed something,  could you not put crushed ice or iced water into the grapes from the side to cool the contents . :huh: yes i have had a couple , nice init . :nk:

[Anne]

Roy, the inside is similar to my wee grape-bunch liqueur bottle here:
http://yobunny.org.uk/gallery1/displayimage.php?pos=-156
"Hand-made by Elvis Drandic, Bale-Valle, Istra, Croatia. Bought 2005."

[RoynMargaret]

Roy, the inside is similar to my wee grape-bunch liqueur bottle here:
http://yobunny.org.uk/gallery1/displayimage.php?pos=-156
"Hand-made by Elvis Drandic, Bale-Valle, Istra, Croatia. Bought 2005."

Thanks Anne. I have seen the grape-shaped bottles before, but they are not, IMO, really similar to my bottle. Perhaps I really do have a rare, even one-off bottle?

[RoynMargaret]

A persistent friend found this:
http://www.easterncorner.com/bottle-grape-details.htm
so we think the mystery is resolved.
Thank you