Old bottle I found

Here is an old bottle I found. I think it is over 100 years old?

Does anybody recognize its shape?

Regards,

Alain

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T was wondering about the green color, part of the bottle or other substance in the bottle?

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That first bottle is old and I would say hand blowen by the air bubbles in it , what they used to do is use a mould abit like  a old bullet mould only bigger sort of like a big pair of pliers  , blow the glass into it , release the bottle from the mould , the neck is still attatched to the blowpipe at this stage , snap the bottle from the blowpipe and with a second pair of pliers type mould clamp a molten piece of glass on the top of the neck to form a collar . pity the neck is broken you would have been able to see where the collar is fitted to the neck .
                           Over here we find a lot of tall skinny bottles some with fancy necks we couldnt work out why they always appeared around the sheep shearing sheds until it was discovered that the bottles were castor oil bottles and the shearers would oil up their shears everyday to stop them going rusty , hence plenty of bottles

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yes Rick
               some bottles are free blowen they roll them on the marver table as they blow them to get them round , they still have to deal with the collar the same way but there are some ink bottles that they just snap off and you will see a jaggerd edge where they are broken from the blowpipe . I know of some people who used to throw the ink bottles away because they thought the ink bottles were broken and incomplete till they found- out the bottles were made that way

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exactly how do u bottle hunt or wat ever u call it im thinking about getting into the hobby and would like to know how its done like do u just dig random places and hope u find a bottle or what.  also where do u look for old bottles and how. plz tell me anything i need to know to start this hobby

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