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<p>[QUOTE="say_it_slowly, post: 9509861, member: 50"]It appears to be a large bottle but you don't say exactly. You might want to look through the sha.org site mentioned above as there it a lot of info.</p><p><br /></p><p>I <i>think</i> yours might fall in the carboy/demi-john range though size might tell if that's correct.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a quicker way to get to that info:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://sha.org/bottle/miscellaneous.htm#Carboys" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://sha.org/bottle/miscellaneous.htm#Carboys" rel="nofollow">https://sha.org/bottle/miscellaneous.htm#Carboys</a></p><p><br /></p><p>One of the things I understand that throws off dating is the way the larger bottles were made long after other types were machine made. Anyway, here is just a snippet from the info on the site.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>"The first is that these large bottles tended to be made by mouth-blown methods later than when a majority of most other bottle types were being made on machines. For example, the 1920 <i>Illinois Glass Company</i> catalog linked above notes that their new carboy factory in Alton, IL., completed in January 1919, had "<i>...installed in it an Automatic Machine, the capacity of which is devoted exclusively to the manufacture of Carboys, Water Bottles and large Containers, ranging from two to twelve gallons.</i>" This implies that prior to that time the production of carboys and "large Containers" was likely still done by hand methods, aka "mouth-blown." In addition, Soetens (2016) noted that the first fully automatic bottle machine in Europe was first used sometime shortly after 1923. That author also mentioned that demijohns were still being produced by hand - i.e., mouth-blown - at least as late as 1950 in Germany. And finally, a recently noted YouTube video indicated to be filmed at Gayner Glass Co. (Salem, NJ) in the 1940s shows workmen still making demijohns by largely hand methods that late into the 20th century."</p><p><br /></p><p>That video is available at the following link: [MEDIA=youtube]8CzMik9oelU[/MEDIA][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="say_it_slowly, post: 9509861, member: 50"]It appears to be a large bottle but you don't say exactly. You might want to look through the sha.org site mentioned above as there it a lot of info. I [I]think[/I] yours might fall in the carboy/demi-john range though size might tell if that's correct. Here is a quicker way to get to that info: [URL]https://sha.org/bottle/miscellaneous.htm#Carboys[/URL] One of the things I understand that throws off dating is the way the larger bottles were made long after other types were machine made. Anyway, here is just a snippet from the info on the site. "The first is that these large bottles tended to be made by mouth-blown methods later than when a majority of most other bottle types were being made on machines. For example, the 1920 [I]Illinois Glass Company[/I] catalog linked above notes that their new carboy factory in Alton, IL., completed in January 1919, had "[I]...installed in it an Automatic Machine, the capacity of which is devoted exclusively to the manufacture of Carboys, Water Bottles and large Containers, ranging from two to twelve gallons.[/I]" This implies that prior to that time the production of carboys and "large Containers" was likely still done by hand methods, aka "mouth-blown." In addition, Soetens (2016) noted that the first fully automatic bottle machine in Europe was first used sometime shortly after 1923. That author also mentioned that demijohns were still being produced by hand - i.e., mouth-blown - at least as late as 1950 in Germany. And finally, a recently noted YouTube video indicated to be filmed at Gayner Glass Co. (Salem, NJ) in the 1940s shows workmen still making demijohns by largely hand methods that late into the 20th century." That video is available at the following link: [MEDIA=youtube]8CzMik9oelU[/MEDIA][/QUOTE]
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