Home
For Sale
News
Show Calander
Feedback
Bottle College
Digs
Clubs
  Site Map 
  eBay Auctions 
  Contact Info 
  Order Form 
  Appraisals 
  Classified 
  Sponsers 
  Questions 
  Next Show 
  Help 
  email 
  Links 
 

 Identification
 Bottle:

  Dating 
  Colours 
  Bases 
  Tops 
  Common 
  Cleaning 


by FreeFind

    Bases on Australian Found Bottles

    You can help identify what type of bottle you have and it's age by the style of base the bottle has, or you can scroll down until you see a picture of a similar bottle.



Click on a link to Jump to a list of bases in a certain category, or scroll list.

Early Australian Found Bases Later to Modern Found Bases


    Jump back to top of Page

    Early Australian Found Bases

Bottle Base: Found On: Comments: Base Nickname:
1800 to 1880
Click to full size Picture Gins.
Goldfield Blacks.
Cognacs
Beers.

These Kick up bases can be quite shallow or very deep.
Come in a variety of glass colours, 1800 to 1920.

Kick up.
Click to full size Picture Medicines.
Beers.
Gins.
Many different bottles.

A Pontil Scar is where the glass maker removed the blow pipe from the bottle, 1800 to1860.
Re-fired Pontil Scar.
Click to full size Picture Sealed Gins, Wines & Cognacs.
Blacks.

Generaly the 'Pimple' is later 1870's on.
Pimple.
Click to full size Picture Goldfield Salad Oils, Vinegars & Pickles.
Generally seen on the later Goldfields bottles 1860's &: 1870's.
Centered kick up.
1880 to 1910.
Click to full size Picture Codds.
Lamonts.

a small kick up usually with a glassmakers stamp, 1900
Codd or Lamont base, just a variation on a kick up.
Click to full size Picture Poisons, Medicines.
This bottle is blown in a mould, 1900.
Poison Base
Click to full size Picture Early Corwn seal Beers.
Some Wrap Top Beers.

This bottle is blown in a mould, 1900.
Medium Kick Up.
Click to full size Picture Early Corwn seal Beers.
Some Wrap Top Beers.
Early Crown Seal Aeratwe Waters.

This bottle is blown in a mould, 1900.
Shallow Kick Up.
Click to full size Picture Some Bitters.
Jug Poisons.
Apothacary Jars.

This bottle is blown in a mould, 1890.
Embossed Base Center Kick Up.
Click to full size Picture Wrap Top Beers.
Some Ring seal Beers.

This bottle is blown in a mould, 1890.
Medium Kick Up Embossed Base Center.


    Jump back to top of Page

    Later to Modern Bases

Bottle Base: Found On: Comments: Base Nickname:
1910 to 1930
Click to full size Picture Crown Seal beers.
This bottle is machine made, 1910.
Shallow Kick Up Embossed Base.
Click to full size Picture Medicines.
Poisons.

This bottle is made in a mould, 1920.
Medicine Base
Click to full size Picture Milk & Creams.
This bottle is machine made, 1915.
Dairy Number.
Milk Base.

1930 to Modern
Click to full size Picture Crown Seal Aerated Waters.
This bottle is machine made, 1930.
Flat Crown Seal Base.
Modern Crown Seal Base.

Click to full size Picture Crown Seal Aerated Waters.
This bottle is machine made, 1950.
Modern Crown Seal Base.
Click to full size Picture Some Modern Crown Seal Aerated Waters.
Screw Top Aerated Waters

This bottle is machine made, 1960.
Screw Top Aerated Waters Base.

 Copyright © 2008 No part of this publication may be reproduced without the written concent from the author of this web site. Chris Thornton