Thanks for posting this, Neil
Interesting bottle. If you had shown me just a picture of the base, I would have thought it much earlier than it is. The crown top closure does, however, provide a beginning point for a date range.
Take a look at these two posts:
Harry_Pristis It's a beer bottle with an applied crown lip finish. That dates the bottle rather closely to say between 1895 and 1905. Could be a few years later, but not too many.
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Chris You can bracket the date of this bottle based on its crown top closure, and the mold seam.The closure was patented in 1892You bottle is blown in mold which predates machine manufacture. Machine made bottles came into wide use starting around 1910ish.There were, at that time, thousands of local bottlers across the US so little specific is known about most of them. A trip to the Buffalo historical society and/or library might yield some further info on the business. One can search "City Directories" for the existence of a business. Newspapers and other local publications may have advertisements for the business.Hope this is helpful.
Your bottle sure seems to pre-date the machine made era of bottles so perhaps 1910-15 at the latest. The details of the base are most unusual for an American bottle so it makes me wonder if this might be British..... possibly, but I am not knowledgeable as to when this closure came into usage there.