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« on: July 08, 2016, 06:19:33 am »


     The shape of the base tends to depend on the shape of the bottle.


Dear Joey,

You are quite correct, of course. But in my experience, even when the bottle is quite bulbous in shape, the profile of the foot rim tends to look more like a "square egg", as opposed to a true ellipse. That is not to say there are no exceptions. It's just that the vast majority of these geometrically perfect ellipses are to be found on modern machine finished bottles.

But, like you, I cannot say for sure without holding it.   Smiley

Best,
Tom
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