Re: Need info on old bottle

>[EMAIL PROTECTED]  (Allview) on 10/12/2003  writes:
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>I have a 10" blue green bottle with a round bottom.

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Hey, Marilyn . . .

It sounds like you are describing a ginger ale bottle.  Many of these were
exported from Ireland by a number of bottlers, and they were also made here in
the USA in the late 1800s.  The unembossed versions don't have much value.

The bottom is round so that they cannot stand up which would keep the cork
moist. If the cork dried out, the carbonation would escape.  

A bottle-holder resembling a skeletonized coffee cup was available, but most
coffee mugs would work to hold the opened bottle upright.

------------Harry Pristis