Blown bottle Found at Thrift Shop.. decanter?
I found this nice looking decanter like bottle at a thrift shop. To me it looks like a blown 2 piece molded bottom with a hand blown stem and applied top. Any idea what year this bottle could be? Is it worth anything?
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Nice find. A decanter would be far more refined than this, that is far more precisely manufactured and probably in clear glass.
Your bottle was probably made for a food product of some kind. Collectors know this by the many similar shaped examples, some of which have survived with labels. I am guessing yours is about 8" tall or so. As for age, it would be later 19th century. It is most likely American, but I will hold out at least some possibility that it may be of British manufacture.
This is a particularly attractive example with all of its hand blown irregularity. Collectors really like that.