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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Brian Warshaw, post: 4426086, member: 16674&quot;]<font size="4"><b>[USER=59]@Bakersgma[/USER]; [USER=70]@Cherryhill[/USER]; @say-it-slowly; [USER=29]@Ownedbybear[/USER]; [USER=1476]@Debora[/USER]; [USER=7724]@Fid[/USER]; [USER=36]@evelyb30[/USER] </b></font></p><p>I&#039;ve tried filling the bottle with Turmeric (yellow), and blackcurrent juice, but the photographs are not much better than without.</p><p><br /></p><p>Mark 1&nbsp;&nbsp; Like a Sine wave but formed using straight lines.&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]378365[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Mark 2&nbsp;&nbsp; Looks like a tulip flower or champagne flute, with roots below</p><p>[ATTACH=full]378366[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>In addition the embossed numerals as per the original posting.&nbsp; Parts of the glass look like old window panes, which could be caused by a chilled mould.&nbsp; No bubbles.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have shown that it incorporates features of an old Victorian bottle, albeit using an American guide.</p><p><br /></p><p>Several respondents have suggested it isn&#039;t old, but apart from Fid, with his suggestion the handle is wrong, and Cherryhill with the bottom serrations, nobody has told my why it isn&#039;t Victorian.&nbsp; Interesting about the serrations helping the cooling process, cannot see how it would achieve that.</p><p><br /></p><p>Whilst I used an inappropriate guide (American) for a probable French bottle, I would surmise that the main thing wrong with it would the dates when changes happened.&nbsp; The semi-automatic bottle machine was a British development as one example, and it could have been a decade or more before it was taken up by other countries.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve had my one Euro&#039;s worth of fun doing the research, but I really would like to know why I didn&#039;t get it right.&nbsp; PLEASE ENLIGHTEN ME.&nbsp; What factors suggest I was wrong?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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