Message #52223

[Luke]

Hi Rube, Adrian,

Lovely bottles! Rube I really like the stopper on yours as it looks like a nice unusual old one, but a green one would work really well too imo. I always have trouble finding nice enough cabochons to fit my bottles.

Adrian, I was watching that bottle also, but I did buy another eBay bottle in the same kind of price range. Congrats! And congrats on snapping up a likely 18thC example! I don’t know if you have registered for the water, pine, stone collection, but there are a lot of realgar bottles shown and discussed on there (a great resource and interesting read if you haven’t!). My understanding of wide/narrow mouths is that wide mouth bottles were a trend in the 18thC, but that doesn’t mean bottles with narrow mouths weren’t also produced. Hopefully Joey will explain.

Best,
Luke