Tuesday, February 24, 2015

A recent dig

Here is a case gin bottle just out of the ground.  It struck me immediately as western, and has a more yellow green tone then the pictures show.  It is not embossed, has a flash in the lip, but it sure is one good looking bottle!

I haven't seen a lot of these and I'm wondering if anyone can tell me anything about it or the mold variant.  I didn't keep it in the pic so this is all I have picture wise.  No measurements.  The base has a circular concave push up about a half an inch deep with center dot.





Although a different age, (a little older that is), here is another interesting case bottle that was dug close by...






 Happy digging everyone, good luck out there!
 
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7 comments:

  1. WesternglassaddictFebruary 25, 2015 at 11:34 AM

    That embossed gin is amazing! I have never seen it before. great find! Dale M.

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  2. Down-East'49'erFebruary 26, 2015 at 7:05 AM

    thanks Dale. I wasn't familiar with it either. I guess its pretty common though. I've found a few adds for it from 1856 in San Francisco. It's American made, Eastern. I've seen a lot of the smaller sized examples online but none like this.

    Do you know anything about the other bottle? Is it Western, common, scarce?

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  3. WesternglassaddictFebruary 26, 2015 at 9:15 AM

    Surprised its common...would need to see the lip and base on the other one.

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  4. rtsiriFebruary 26, 2015 at 6:36 PM

    Your blank gin is believed to be the bottle for Moore Hunt Co's OurTaste Bitters ..Bill Wilson had it pictured on a milk glass gin which wasn't right . He also pictured the Blue - Gum Bitters on a milk glass case gin which also wasn't correct .At the time the Wlison's had the labels only so they placed them on a handy case bottle . Later the Blue-Gum bottle was found embossed BGB on amber bottles with applied tops and tooled tops also on a SCA bottle with a tooled top . Would like to see an embossed bottle for the Our Taste Bitters rts

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  5. Down-East'49'erFebruary 27, 2015 at 3:52 PM

    Thanks Rick. Its really tough to find any information on-line about Western Glass, and try as I have Im only just beginning to learn about it!

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  6. WesternglassaddictMarch 2, 2015 at 1:37 PM

    Boy that pit looks shallow...was it a privy or a shallow trash pit? Pretty sunny photo. I would rather dig one of those old case gin/schnapps than a pit jammed with TOC stuff any day.

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  7. Down-East'49'erMarch 15, 2015 at 10:03 AM

    it was two separate area's, one was the mud under an old gold rush floor and the later area was a trash heap behind a building, possibly under the rear window. All pretty exciting digging!

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