Gen Taylor Never Surrenders heros collactable bottle
Just got this and i have seen many copy's and repros of this bottle, its deeply purple and has a couple weird things that makes me think it may be the oldest i have ever seen, its pontil is overly extend and slightly off center, the lip was applied and the neck fell a little, kind of deformed it has the straight neck lip not the heavy applied one, any one ever seen the pre civil war bottles of this mold ?
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There is no one attribute that "nails" the attribution, but the amethyst color is commonly used in modern pieces, the weight of the glass is heavier than originals, the incredibly heavy orange peel effect in the glass rings entirely wrong, and the pontil scar on the base will simply not be the same as a 19th century example. In all of the Clevenger examples I have seen, the pontil mark is within a well-defined concavity - unlike the originals in similar molds.