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Coral Bottle

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« on: July 08, 2016, 12:19:25 am »

Good comparison Charll. The dinks on Cathy's bottle make sense now as characteristic pitting (burst bubbles) in glass. But I'd question the 1940 dating on the Trocadero example.

Dear Joey,

Yes, the vitreous shine should have given me the hint it was glass, and not coral. As for dating, I do not think it is an old bottle, because of the foot rim. It is an almost perfect geometric ellipse. You don't generally find that egg-shaped profile on older bottles, the bases of which tend to be more elongated.

Tom
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