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Title: Old gin bottle perhaps?
Post by: keith on September 10, 2009, 07:15:47 PM

Got to be a gin bottle but can some one give me an approximate date to it,please,Keith.

Title: Re: G and T anyone??
Post by: malwodyn on September 11, 2009, 02:12:44 PM

Looks as if it might be early 19th century - possibly even older.  Could you post a photo of the base? and the top of the neck?

Title: Re: G and T anyone??
Post by: keith on September 11, 2009, 03:49:08 PM

PIc's as requested

Title: Re: G and T anyone??
Post by: malwodyn on September 20, 2009, 11:13:15 PM

Thanks for the pics - sorry not to have replied earlier.

Looking at the base, it would appear to me that this is mould blown, and rather more recent that I first thought.  So perhaps the neck was made to look antique.  Oude Genever, perhaps.

Title: Re: Old gin bottle perhaps?
Post by: keith on September 21, 2009, 03:12:10 PM

Thanks,Oude Geneva?new one on me???

Title: Re: Old gin bottle perhaps?
Post by: malwodyn on September 24, 2009, 01:29:01 PM

Oude= old, Genever=gin;  a particular style of Dutch gin; so possibly at some time in the last century a Dutch or Flemish company marketed their product in an "antiqued" bottle; not a fraud, just a marketing ploy.

I still have a ceramic bottle I dug up intact from my garden - how long it had been there, I do not know, but most of the coins that came up were pre-decimalisation.  I know it came from the continent, but I've never been able to identify the incised marks.  You don't even have the paper label to help you, so you will have to hope that someone recognises the shape!!!

Title: Re: Old gin bottle perhaps?
Post by: keith on September 24, 2009, 01:37:30 PM

Ta,will check bottle collector sites,Keith.