Lovely bottle with no identifying information

[DKF]

This beautiful BIM bottle with an applied lip is a recent find from Ipswich, MA. It is approximately 9" tall and has quite a narrow opening for a bottle of this size. Can anyone date this bottle and suggest what it might have contained?

 

[JOETHECROW]

Welcome to the forum Donald,... The bottle dates from around 1890's to 1910....Probably held Laundry Blueing or Ammonia.

 

[DKF]

Thank you, Joe. I'm enjoying this forum very much, and as a relative neophyte I appreciate the wealth of information to be found here.

As for the bottle, I had indeed surmised that it contained some kind of unpleasant substance that called for controlled pouring. It's nice to have my barely educated guess confirmed!

Donald

 

[tigue710]

the lip is tooled, not applied, the difference is that a tooled lip bottle had what was left after removal from the blowpipe tooled into a lip form, where as an applied lip bottle had extra glass added to be tooled... a practice that died out in the 1880's... as Joe said it was an ammonia or blueing bottle, and from around 1900...