Why does whiskey come in fifths

The style typically have a mineral type finish and were made in a three-piece mold though some were two-piece molds. Colors vary widely with shades of amber and olive being the most common by far. Pontiled versions almost always an iron pontil; rarely a sand other type pontil scar likely date from the Civil War or before with non-pontiled examples being from after that period into the s.

The "Patent" style can be difficult to differentiate from the cylinder type discussed next, though there are usually enough subtle differences to the experienced eye to be of value for dating. This general style of liquor bottle, along with some subtle variations like the rest of the cylinders discussed below , were most popular from the s through the s until National Prohibition in The illustration to the right is from a bottle makers catalog and shows three of their cylinder liquor bottles - "standard", "extra tall", and "short" cylinder moulds Illinois Glass Co.

The "standard" and "extra tall" cylinders are similar to the bottles pictured here. The "short cylinder mould" bottle on right in illustration is similar to the colorless faintly amethyst liquor fifth described below in this section. A common name for this style is just the "standard fifth" or if embossed, a "lettered brandy" Illinois Glass Co.

The above pictured shape and size "fifth" of spirits bottle was very popular in Western America, but was used throughout the country extensively. From the early to mid s through the rest of the 20th century this general tall, cylinder, long neck, style was made by automatic bottle machines i. The two styles at the bottom of this cylinder section are more typical of the later types of cylinder liquor bottles from the s on. The colorless very slight amethyst tint , It has a "improved" tooled straight brandy finish click close-up of neck and finish to view such and was produced in a cup-bottom mold with three air venting marks on both the front and back shoulder indicating an early 20th century production.

Daniele Marx and Emil C. Jorgensen began their wholesale and retail liquor business about with Marx leaving the company in This bottle dates from just after that point, i. This date range is consistent with the fact that this particular bottle was found under the floor of an old store in Summit, OR. A slight variation of this style is slightly wider in the body as portrayed by the bottle pictured to the right of an amber Old Castle Whiskey "fifth" San Francisco, CA , which is closer to a quart in size.

Click on the following links to view additional pictures of this bottle - base view ; shoulder, neck, and finish. This bottle has a tooled inside thread finish "brandy finish" with internal threads and was made in a two-piece cup-bottom mold. It has the makers mark PCGW on the base indicating it was manufactured by the Pacific Coast Glass Works , which began business in , placing this bottles manufacturing between and about Toulouse Click HERE to view a close-up picture of this bottles hard rubber stopper which matches the threads inside the finish.

However, the following dating trends have been noted:. It should be noted also that this shape - in several sizes and usually in colorless or aqua glass - was also used for olive oil, vinegar, and a few other "food" products during the first few decades of the 20th century Zumwalt ; empirical observations. This bottle has an improved-tooled straight brandy finish, has multiple air venting marks almost hidden with the shoulder design, and was blown in a two-piece cup-bottom mold - classic diagnostic features of a post mouth-blown bottle.

Click on the following links for more pictures of this bottle: base view ; shoulder, neck, and finish view. Many fluted shoulder liquor bottles have the more gentle slope to the shoulder like the pictured bottle, while other have the more abrupt shoulder like the cylinders discussed in the box above. This particular company noted in their advertising and bottle embossing that they " Neither Rectify Nor Compound" - a reflection of the ongoing battle just after passage of the Food and Drugs Act between "pure" whiskey producers and the "rectifiers" or "compounders" who blended their whiskey, often with a large proportion of neutral spirits and flavoring compounds.

Both were placed on an equal legal footing by the so-called "Taft Decision" of - a presidential decision that established "standards of identity" for various types of whiskey; many of which are still followed today Downard These bottles date from between and or so with most dating between about and This is one of several variations from this very large liquor company that did most of its business through the mail - often to the ever increasing numbers of "dry" states during the noted era.

The loophole in the law that allowed for their mail order business the vast majority of Hayner's business was made illegal with passage of the Webb-Kenyon Interstate Liquor Act of March which prohibited the shipping of liquor to dry states from "wet" ones, although enforcement of this law did not really occur until about Click on the following links to view more images of this bottle: base view showing the patent date; close-up of the brandy finish ; close-up of the embossing.

NOTE: Dr. Machine-made bottles with the embossing " Federal Law Forbids Sale or Re-use of this Bottle " were made between and the s. Note: Like with some of the other early 20th century liquor bottles, decorative shoulder type bottles were also used for sauces, olive oil, vinegar and other liquid to semi-liquid food products during the first few decades of the 20th century [Munsey ; Zumwalt ]. The pictured quart bottle is not embossed and was produced in a turn-mold as it has no side mold seams and fairly obvious horizontal concentric rings indicating its turn-mold heritage.

It has a tooled straight brandy finish and likely dates from Since it was produced in a turn-mold the evidence of air venting and the type of mold base plate are not physically in evidence. These type bottles were listed as "Squat Turn Mould Brandies" in the Illinois Glass Company catalogs of the early 20th century and were available in the pint and quart sizes Illinois Glass Co. Click on the following links for more images of this bottle: base view ; shoulder, neck, and finish.

It has a crudely applied brandy finish, was blown in a post-bottom mold, and has no evidence of mold air venting indicating an approximately manufacturing date between the mids and early s. The origin of this bottle is unknown although it is almost certainly from the East coast although Parole was a race horse of some note owned by tobacco king Peter Lorillard.

Parole placed 4th in the Kentucky Derby but then went on to some notable success in the late s primarily in Europe. In particular, Parole's victory over an English horse in caused a sensation back in the U. This rare bottle almost certainly dates from that period, i. Note: Although this bottle is very uncommon, it is presented here for a couple reasons: to show an earlier version of this style that is known to have held rye whiskey and, in particular, to show how one can squeeze out a more refined date range for a bottle with a little researching and a knowledge of relatively rarity.

Some date as early as the s and there was some limited popularity evident by the s and s. Those made from the s into the s usually have a tooled finish and were produced in a cup-bottom mold, with some being turn-molds like the pictured example. Occasional mouth-blown examples of this type from the early 20th century are seen with a post-bottom mold conformation, e.

Early 20th century glass catalogs noted this shape as available with external screw threads which would have been mouth-blown with a ground finish rim. Machine-made versions of this shape are somewhat unusual, but undoubtedly exist from the mid to late s on with the earlier ones up until the early s likely having cork closures with external screw threads more common after that time.

This bottle style first originated - and patented - by Thomas J. The inventor noted that the bottle has " This style was typically called a "malt whiskey" or "ring malt whiskey" by glass makers. Alternative names are not known although the "Belle of Bourbon" bottles were similar in conformation except for a somewhat longer neck and no ring at the neck base Illinois Glass Co.

Earlier bottles are embossed with Baltimore, MD. This particular bottle is an early machine-made product by a non-Owens machine, i. It is just over 10" tall, 3" in diameter, has mold air venting marks, and some crudeness associated with early machine manufacture. It likely dates from the s. Click front label to see such including their contemplating chemist trade mark; click reverse label to see the medicinal claims stated there. The American Medical Association disagreed with the various health restoring claims made by the company noting that the "nostrum" was simply " Regardless of that, Duffy's was extremely popular well into the 20th century.

The patent holder for the bottle style - Thomas J. He must have cleared up his financial problems as he went on to great success with this brand and eventually took over the H. See the Medicinal Bottles typology page for more information on Warner's products. There were an assortment of competing products to the very popular Duffy Malt Whiskey although the author has observed far more Duffy Malt Whiskey bottles than all the competing products combined.

It shares the same shape as the Duffy's along with the "annular collar" at the base of the neck and was almost certainly used for malt whiskey, likely playing off the consumer recognition of the bottle shape to help sales. The earliest Duffy Malt Whiskey bottles do have true applied finishes; these likely date from the mid to late s. The general style was produced until at least the early s but was not found after that point by the author in any bottle makers catalogs, although it is certainly possible they were produced later Owens-Illinois Glass Co.

The illustration to the right is from the Illinois Glass Company's catalog and shows two types of very similar liquor bottles that the company made at the time National Prohibition was just beginning in the U. The bottle pictured to the left is a late mouth-blown example that has a tooled brandy finish, a slight amethyst tint from manganese dioxide as the glass decolorizer , multiple 6 air vent marks on the shoulder on both sides with more on the base, and was produced in a two-piece cup-bottom mold.

It likely dates from the early to mid s and is a very common shape mouth-blown and machine-made during the decade just prior to National Prohibition, i.

Some are occasionally embossed on the body e. Machine-made versions with a brandy or straight brandy cork finish date from the early to mid s overlapping with the mouth-blown versions through National Prohibition and into the s and s at least Fairmount Glass Works s; Lucas County Bottle Co.

Machine-made external screw thread versions can date from about until the end of the 20th century. Those with the embossing " Federal Law Forbids Sale or Re-use of this Bottle " were made between and the s empirical observations.

For more views of this bottle click the following links: base view ; shoulder, neck, and finish view. Many liquor bottle molds made just prior to the law change continued to used for years since the cost of redoing the assortment of machine molds was expensive and not typically done simply to delete the previously required inscription.

The base also has the number "2" on it which is the Federally required liquor bottle permit number for Thatcher Glass. The other numbers on the base are as follows: the "D" is a distillers code for an unknown distillery; the "" is most likely a mold catalog number for Thatcher Glass ; the "8" is of unknown use, though is possibly a consecutive mold number code for the eighth blow mold on the machine that made these bottles; and the "L" to the left of the "D" code is of unknown meaning.

The example above - which was apparently made in - is a very late bottle made with that embossing. Like the cylinder liquor bottles above, there is a large array of liquor bottles that are square or rectangular in cross-section. These bottles varied in size and design substantially, but all share the fact that they are square or rectangular when looking straight on at the base. The domestic versions were slightly more expensive to buy than the "imported colors" versions, which are thought to have been imported from Europe and sold by the Illinois Glass Company , though it is possible these were actually made by the company in the typical "imported colors," which undoubtedly meant some shade of olive green Illinois Glass Company , The example pictured above is typical of the shape with a distinct taper to the body, but with a flared finish which appears more common on the earlier pre case gins.

This example was produced in a dip-mold and dates from the midth century Shafer This bottle is not pontil scarred and was found in western Oregon in the context of Civil War era or shortly thereafter items which places it towards the end of the dip mold era s. It is possibly American made, though that is impossible to tell for sure.

Although there are no mold seams in evidence body of this bottle there is a faintly embossed cross on the base of the bottle - sure proof of molding of some kind and in this case, surely a dip mold. Click base embossed cross to view a picture of the embossing.

Base embossed dip molded bottles are unusual though obviously occurring. The distinct taper to these type bottles helped facilitate removal from the dip mold. Click case gin shoulder close-up to view a close-up picture of the shoulder, neck, finish. The large well over a quart case gin bottle pictured to the right was produced in the late 19th century i. The pictured example was found by the authors brother in Malaysia.

However, Hoboken bottles are not uncommonly found on historic sites in the U. This particular bottle is of typical shape and proportions for a case gin, was produced in a two-piece cup-bottom mold, has a crudely applied "blob" finish, no evidence of air venting, and has a blob seal on the shoulder.

This bottle is an example of how American manufacturing based dating ranges can not be reliably used for foreign made bottles. If American made, a bottle with these diagnostic features except maybe for the cup-bottom mold feature would likely date from between the mids and mids. Click on the following links for more images of this bottle: base view ; side view ; close-up of the shoulder, neck, finish, and blob seal.

One-part blob or oil finishes on mouth-blown case gin bottles are typical of items made from the s to about National Prohibition in the late s. Examples of case gin bottles were found on the Zeewijk , a ship which sunk off the coast of Australia in Early case gin bottles were sometimes formed with paddles or square wooden blocks instead of a dip mold - possibly with a "shingle mold" Boow In the 19th century the taper seems to become more pronounced with the pictured examples being fairly typical, though some late 19th and early 20th century examples can have even more taper empirical observations.

Given the wide time span that this shape was used over years , manufacturing based diagnostic features must be used to help narrow down a date for these bottles. For example, European made mouth-blown bottles commonly had "true" applied finishes much later than American made bottle, i.

As an example of this, the crudely applied oil finish pictured to the left is on a Dutch-made gin bottle that bears a label identifying it as having been made no earlier than when an elephant became the trademark for H. Melchers - the Schiedam company that used this bottle Vermeulen ; Vermeulen pers. This bottle also has additional body crudity to it wavy bubble laden glass that would diagnostically place it from the s to mids if actually made in the U.

Click the following links for more images of this Dutch gin bottle: base view cup-bottom mold produced ; view of the label and the trade mark elephant ; view of the embossing. Photos courtesy of Ed Stephens. There are a couple morphological features of case gin bottles relative to the corners of the base that are more or less unique to the style and an almost positive identifying characteristic if one only has the fragmental base with the feature. The first is that many earlier s and prior free-blown or dip-molded like the example pictured to the above left case gins have distinctly "pointed" base corners.

These bottles essentially sit only on the four small points of the base. In addition, later s and later fully molded case gins have distinctly - though variably - beveled or flattened corners like shown in the image the right. Click base view to see another image of this same gin bottle base bottle dates from the era that shows this feature looking straight on at the base.

Few if any other square bottles have either of the described base features; both are quite indicative of a bottle used to contain gin though not all gin bottles have these features and most likely imported from continental Europe. One additional mold related feature essentially unique to European-made case gin bottles is a vertically corrugated texture to the body sides.

Photo courtesy of Glass Works Auctions. These are sometimes referred to by collectors as "shingle mold gins" due to the resemblance of the glass surface texture with that of wooden shingles.

This body texture is primarily observed on later case gin bottles s on like the example to the left which was formed by a full sized closed mold which during the late 19th century was almost certainly made from iron or other metal.

The vertically corrugated surface appears to have been purposefully formed on the inner mold surface for styling reasons as case gin bottles with this attribute are very common. Although foreign made, bottles with this diagnostic feature were imported extensively into the U. This body texture feature is in the authors experience unique to case gin bottles; so much so that if a flat paneled fragment with that surface texture is found on a historic site it can be certainly attributed to being from an imported case gin bottle dating from the last half and probably last third of the 19th century to as late as the second decade of the 20th.

This general style and size of square bottle with a tall body and short neck was used primarily for various spirits and high alcohol medicinal products like bitters and sarsaparilla. In fact, this general shape was undoubtedly more commonly used for bitters, sarsaparilla, and other medicinal "tonic" products than for purely spirits - especially by the last quarter of the 19th century. Finishes on these type bottles range widely but the most common were the oil like pictured and mineral finishes, with the double ring, brandy, and others used less commonly.

Earlier versions s and before will have deeply domed bases and often various types of pontil scars; later versions s and after will have smooth non-pontiled scarred bases and are usually less domed i.

Schiedam is a city in Holland near Rotterdam and was apparently just part of the proprietary name since this product was originally produced in New York and the bottles made in the U. However, Wolfe's Aromatic Schnapps became a very popular "medicated gin" that was produced from the late s until well into the 20th century.

Due to its popularity it was produced in various parts of the world with the bottles by at least the late s being blown overseas in addition to the U. Wolfe's bottles were produced in a wide variety of colors and sizes, though always apparently square. The pictured bottle is typical of square spirits bottles produced in the mid 19th century and has a crudely applied oil finish and a large grayish iron pontil mark on the base dating it to around Click on the following links to view more pictures of this bottle: base with iron pontil ; close-up of shoulder, neck, and finish ; side view of Schiedam embossing ; side view of Aromatic Schnapps.

Examples with pontil scars would date from the Civil War or before. Smooth non-pontiled examples with applied finishes would date from the s to early s; tooled finishes from about and after empirical observations. Similar bottles continued to be used for gin and other spirits well into the 20th century as shown in the Illinois Glass Company catalog the pictured bottles in this catalog were machine-made. As noted, this style was also very popular for the packaging of bitters and other typically high alcohol medicinal products.

This bottle has a tooled oil type finish with ample bubbles in the glass. Without embossing or labeling identifying the actual contents, it would be impossible to say what any given bottle like this actually held, though it is very likely to have been high in alcohol whatever it was.

As noted previously, the line between medicine and spirits is often blurry prior to the National Prohibition. This is still true today with the acknowledged health benefits of red wine and dark beers - in moderation of course. The pictured bottle is a typical, though slightly smaller than average, example of the style containing a pint i.

It was made for the Louis Taussig Co. San Francisco, CA. This example was blown in a two-piece cup-bottom mold, has an improved-tooled straight brandy more or less finish, plentiful air venting marks throughout the bottle, and a slightly pink tint caused by using manganese dioxide as a glass decolorant.

Click on the following links to view more pictures of this bottle: base view ; close-up of shoulder, neck, and finish. The style was largely used for and identified with spirits but has been noted with embossing or labels for medicinal products, e. This bottle is identically shaped to the one pictured, though in the "5 to the gallon" fifth size.

It is also mouth-blown, likely dates between and based on shape, improved-tooled finish, multiple air venting marks, and cup-bottom mold production , and probably contained a high alcohol product as consumers of the time would have identified this shape with spirits Lindsey It should also be noted that very similar to identically shaped bottles were used for olive oil, salad dressing, vinegar and likely other liquid food products during the first few decades of the 20th century Zumwalt The style was also apparently used for wine as indicated by the dark amber bottle pictured at the following links: entire bottle ; base view.

The base is embossed with the makers mark of an "H" in a triangle indicating manufacture by J. Hamilton Pittsburgh, PA. However, this bottle most likely dates from around to Prohibition though could also be a "medicinal" product that was produced during Prohibition, i. Short Squatty Square Spirits bottles : As with the cylinder liquor bottles discussed earlier, what could be made tall and relatively narrow could also be made shorter and squattier.

Square liquor bottles were also produced with a short and proportionally wide body and a neck that is approximately as tall as the body. The Illinois Glass Company catalogs from the early s list an assortment of different variations on this style theme which have decorative necks. See the IGCo. Catalog page for more distant cousins to this bottle style. Other glass manufacturers used similar names during that era Swindell ; Cumberland Typical finishes on mouth-blown and earlier machine-made items bottles were, like with most liquor bottles, the brandy or straight brandy finish.

Other styles would be uncommon, though a double ring finish is observed occasionally, e. The bottle pictured here is a typical example of the type with a neck that is about as tall as the body, but retains the original labels.

It has an improved-tooled finish, was blown in a cup-bottom mold, and dates from the late s to very early s. This particular quart sized bottle is interesting in several respects due to the labels. One side has a label attesting to the products testing by an " analytical and consulting chemist " in who attested that the whiskey is " Another side has a label warning the purchaser " To guard against refilling of this bottle, see that the capsule is wired and sealed and cork branded "; a reference to the extensive - though not illegal - re-use of bottles during the era; though this company could have also re-used this bottle Busch Click on the following links to for more views of this bottle: medicinal whiskey label view ; "notice" and "caution" label view ; non-labeled side view.

These bottles almost always exhibit the diagnostic characteristics of the era: tooled and improved-tooled finishes, cup-bottom mold production, and multiple air venting marks. Machine-made examples with a brandy or straight brandy finish cork closure date from the early to mid s overlapping with the mouth-blown versions through National Prohibition.

Note: This shape was also commonly used for imported Scotch Whiskey during the same era noted above for mouth-blown bottles Unitt Rectangular Spirits bottles : The final shape in this section is one that is transitioning into the next category of spirits bottles - flasks. It is rectangular in cross-section with rounded corners, a proportionally tall body, and short neck.

It is a common shape for early 20th century liquor bottles and in smaller sizes would be considered a type of flask see next section. Even in this larger size - like the quart size pictured to the left - it could be considered a large flask shape.

This style also usually but not always has a raised band or strap down both narrow sides, although the strap or banded sides seem to be less common on the smaller one pint or less sizes than the larger sizes empirical observations. The early 20th century Illinois Glass Company catalogs click following links to view the specific pages in the catalog listed this shape as a "Baltimore Oval" available with either a "brandy finish" or "screw top" in the flasks section IGCo.

Production sizes ranged from 4 ozs. Observed finishes on this shape bottle are usually the brandy or straight brandy types with a prescription or patent finish possible but noted much less frequently. Internal or external threads with ground rim are occasionally seen on mouth-blown versions. The pictured bottle is quart sized, was manufactured for the John C.

Connelly Co. This particular bottle has the original label indicating that the product was " Guaranteed by Jno. Donnelly Co. Click on the following links to see additional pictures of this bottle: embossing on reverse view ; side view showing raised "strap" ; base view ; close-up of the shoulder, neck and finish.

This type bottle with inside threads - like the pictured example - seem to be primarily a Western American phenomena, with few noted from the Midwest or East Sellari ; Barnett It was particularly commonly used for rye whiskey, but was used for other spirits also.

Mouth-blown examples usually were made in a cup-bottom molds occasionally post-bottom molds , with ample air venting marks, and a tooled or improved tooled finish.

The style with a cork closure "square ring finish" apparently lived on at least into the s as the style was still being offered in the Illinois Glass Company's catalog but in sizes from 7 to 16 oz. See the "Baltimore Oval" flask covered below. Similar machine-made bottles with external threads would date from the late s or end of Prohibition until the late 20th century, though actual examples haven't been observed by the author of this website but are likely to exist.

Flask Styles not considered "figured". Flasks of widely varying shapes and sizes were a very common container for spirits of all kinds, originating in the need for a traveling bottle. A flask is a bottle originally designed to be portable and easy to carry, which is typically oval to a rounded rectangle in cross-section, and laterally compressed on two sides.

Though the "flask shape" can be found in a multitude of sizes; on this website flasks are considered to have a capacity of about 16 oz. As with all the bottle types described on this site; there is almost endless variations; crossovers; and hybrids on any shape theme with flasks.

Given this a user should again not get too caught up in specific details. Many of these flasks were produced by an early method of glass blowing called the "half-post method.

Bottles and flasks could be patterned once like the linked nursing bottle which is pattern molded; but not of half-post manufacture; this style was also used for liquor adult nursing bottle.

The forest green "Pitkin" style flask pictured to the left is of early American origin and produced by the half-post method; note the horizontal ridge encircling the shoulder just below the neck.

The light green "Pitkin" style flask pictured at this link - light green "Pitkin" - is another example of a double patterned "broken swirl" flask from the same era. Not all "Pitkin" style flasks were made by New England glass factories; many were made by various glassworks further to the west as well as South New Jersey, and possibly other locations including England. The "Pitkin" style flask to the right was most likely produced at a Midwestern glass factory - western Pennsylvania Pittsburgh most likely - during the first third of the 19th century.

It's heritage is indicated by the brighter green color and the somewhat more circular shape of the bottle body. Click Midwestern Pitkin close-up to view a close-up of this flask which distinctly shows the half-post "ridge" on the upper shoulder as well as the pattern mold ridges. This flask would be referred to as being "swirled to the left. American made pattern molded flasks like the "Pitkins" would not likely date after the s and typically would date from the s to about Because of the early production of these type bottles, pattern molded bottles and flasks are rarely found on historic sites in the West, but would be commonly encountered on early sites in the East and Midwest.

These were previously covered above as a separate category due the ubiquity and the historical significance of that grouping. See the Figured Flasks section of this page for coverage of that spirits bottle category.

The name "union oval" was used by glass makers for both liquor flasks and druggist bottles which are both more or less oval in cross section with a raised strap or band down the sides. The difference between the two groups is that the druggist bottles are straight sided, i. In the collector world the name union oval is applied to an assortment of subtly different liquor flasks that fall into two main classes - those with the raised strap or band down the side "strap side union oval" and those that do not have the strap and are more or less rounded on the narrow side simply called a "union oval" or "knife edge union oval" if the side comes to a bit sharper edge.

An early union oval type flask that has its heritage linked with the figured flasks is the pint aqua flask pictured to the right which would be considered a strap side union oval. Click here for more views of this flask: base view ; side view showing the "strap" ; close-up of the embossing. Note: Many Western collectors consider the distinctive outward curve to the bent leg of the letter "R" to be the work of a particular mold cutter associated with that glassworks.

This is a common embossing feature on many Western bottles of the s and s, though not unique as some bottles made east of the Mississippi also have this feature. Click on the following links to see additional view pictures of this flask: base view which also shows the strap side; close-up of shoulder, neck, and finish. The "knife-edge" variation of the union oval flask has no raised straps on the side, but instead comes to a rounded point of sorts at the side mold seams.

The "sharp" edges to the side are best seen by clicking on the base view picture linked below. This flask has a crudely applied finish and was blown in a post-bottom mold with no air venting - all evidence of an s or early s date for this style of flask. Click on the following links to view additional pictures of this pint flask: base view with "asterisk" ; close-up of the shoulder, neck, and finish ; side view.

The knife-edge style of union oval flask appears to date primarily from the s into the s Thomas , ; empirical observations. Similar to the last flask is the variation where the narrow sides of the flask are also not strap sided but distinctly rounded, not coming to the pointed edge that the above flask has. A half-pint example is pictured to the right. This particular flask is embossed O. This flask has a tooled double ring finish, no air venting marks, and was produced in a post-bottom mold.

Click on the following links for additional images of this flask: base view including the O. These non-strap sided, rounded side union oval flasks appear to date from the s well into the early s. Note: This particular flask is an example of the tendency for smaller bottles to have their finishes tooled earlier than larger ones. These "full measure" bottles had a specific capacity that was affirmed to the potential customer by the embossing and appear to be a reaction to the very common "scant" sizes which held less capacity than the named size would indicate.

Scant sizes are discussed briefly in the coffin section which follows this one. This bottle has the manufacturing features noted a few sentences down and likely dates from the to era. This flask still contained the original year old bourbon whiskey when acquired by the author, which was appropriately disposed of.

Both flasks also date from the early s. These later strap side union oval flasks are usually found in aqua, colorless, or amber glass with other colors much rarer , have tooled double ring finishes, and are air vented. Many of these flasks also have plate mold circles in evidence and sometimes have embossing inside the plate. More specifically on the dating of variations: Some of the earliest union oval flasks were made by the same companies along the Eastern Seaboard that made the figured flasks discussed early on this page.

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