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Bottle found in old (mid to late) 1800s dump, likely right after Gold was discovered about 15 miles from the location. The dump was roughly in use from 1870's ish to the 30's, 40's when they used to lite them up and let them smolderd, hence some molten bottles.I had stomped around these grounds as a young lad in the 1990's with a Friend. I have sojourned back twice since then to discover more and more items, not just bottles, but old ceramic signs with reflectors, most can be identified as City (or county) purchased signs from the 1910's to 1920's to old gold country beer bottles ranging from 1875-ish to 1900's, depending on the manf process.
Anyhow, I have made the trip again, to discover this oddity, or has anyone else come across this before?
Using The Wayback machine and the bottle database/identification pages, apparently this is an olive green - human blown - turn mold bottle with a mamelon, something that was specified as being 'extremely rare' in the article i read.
Typically, with most Wine bottles from the time, which seem to be Tall and somewhat broad (9"-11" tall) with the kick-up, this gem is only 6" tall (6-1/16" to 6-1/8", 7-3/4" circumference) with concentric rings barely visible in some lights around the neck. Bubbles visible throughout the material, the side seams run up the side, to visibly disappear roughly 1/8" below the collar. Another seam is barely visible for the finish, like a traditional late 1800's human blown bottle. An added seam on the base, for being potentially a 'post bottom mold', which raised the bottle 3/16" - 1/4". The closest results I have is potentially a champagne bottle, due to the size, but I'm open to suggestions. This bottle is likely tied to "De Steiger Glass Co. and the “Twister” Blowers", but that's about as far as I have got.!