Antique Wine Bottle Kick Up Base

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Antique Wine Bottle Kick Up Base :
$1.00

This is likely a French bottle from 18th or 19th century. The Bordeaux style bottleis likelydip molded (there is a faint \"ridge\" at the shoulder indicating a dip mold heritage) with aneatly laid on ring type champagne finish (laid around a non-fire polished roughly cracked-off bore) and a crudely pushed up and fairly deep kick-up/push-up base.

This bottle exhibits a lot of the characteristics and crudity of a bottle made during the first half of the 19th century, but is not obviously pontil scarred making it likely to date around the Civil War period of 1860-1870, since after this period dip molded bottles become more and more unusual and prior to this period pontil marks are almost universal.

This bottle is very similar to those pictured and described in Switzer (1974) that were determined to be French in origin and dating right from 1864 to early 1865.

Size: 9.5” Tall, 2.5 \" wide at base

Color:Dark OliveGreen

Top: Champagne Ring applied band

Base: deep kick up base. Good expected base wear.

Condition: No chips, cracks, dings, or stain

Shipping: $12.25 in U.S. via priority mail (includes up to $400 insurance value).