Old liquor bottle?
Found this bottle buried on a sand bar of a river. I think it's an old liquor bottle, but I wonder about it's age or anything else I might learn about it. It's about 9 inches high. At about 4.5 inches from the bottom it has a slight ridge that runs around the circumference. It appears to have a seam running up opposite sides of the bottle but only on the neck and curved part of the bottle and stops at the ridge running around the bottle. The top seems to have been attached as one piece. It has no discernible seam. The bottom curves up about .5 inches and has a small glass bead in the center about the size of a small dried pea. There are no markings. Thanks for looking.
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I have owned one or two of these with a label - it is a 19th century beer bottle, most likely 3rd quarter 19th c. This is most likely an English made bottle.
The bottle was blown into what is a three piece mold, and am mostly sure (not entirely clear in photos) that the top was applied to the bottle after it was blown.
You will find that these are quite common - having been made by the thousands or tens of thousands - and do not have much value unless retaining some distinguishing touch such as a label.
Chris