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Common bottles you'll find in many antique shops are candy containers, fire extinguisher globes, whiskey bottles, ink bottles, barbership, tonic and mineral water bottles. Particularly valued are liquor bottles with presidents or politicans on them, tonic bottles in the shape of the body and fire extinguisher globes still containing the chemicals necessary to put out a flame.Usually older bottles from this period will be greenish/blue due to the impurities in the glass, there may also be bubbles, surface marks and bits of stone in the glass.
To date a hand-blown bottle, look at the poltil marks on the bottom, if there is color in them - 1845 to 1870 are the most likely years of manufacture.
To date a molded bottle, look at the height of the seam, the higher the seam-the later the bottle. Pre-1860, the side mold marks don't go all the way up the neck of the bottle, in the late 1800s they ran to about a quarter inch from the top and after 1903, the seam will run all the way to the top of the bottle.
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They do go on buying trips so call first if it is the last 4 days of the month or during the months of January or February.
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