Topic: Glass seal

[chopin-liszt]

Ok, Peter, thanks. I bow to your vast and superior knowledge of really old glass and drinking related themes.
I didn't think that seals impressed onto blobs of hot glass on a hot bottle would come off, sort of intact.
I assumed they'd end up breaking bits of the bottle off with them, or leaving bits behind.
I have no experience of how glass behaves over periods of hundreds of years. I know you do, (but it has nothing to do with your personal age).

[oldglassman]

Hi ,
           Looks to me like there are the remains of the body of the bottle on the rear of the seal , it may have come of with shards etc but in 250/300 years the sea and sand have done there job of smoothing it all out.

cheers ,
        Peter.

[cobaltcodd]

It certainly is a seal from a bottle.  Here are some poor pictures from my collection of the type of bottle it may have come from, together with some trays of detached seals that have been found in fields, rivers etc when the bottle has long-since been broken.  These are academically interesting, and a lot cheaper than the complete bottles!

[chopin-liszt]

 
What a wonderful collection!
Thank-you so much for joining and posting these images for us to enjoy.