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Joey Silver / Si Zhouyi 義周司
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« on: July 08, 2016, 06:05:10 am »

Dear Tom,

     The shape of the base tends to depend on the shape of the bottle. I would tend to date this bottle to mid-late 19th C., and possibly earlier. You could be correct re.it's being modern, though. I just don't agree, till I hold it.  Grin
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Joey


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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