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by FreeFind

    Colour of Australian Found Bottles

    In Australia there are a few colour names that are generaly used by collectors to describe the colour of a bottle, and it can make a big difference in value and appeal if you have a bottle that is different for that bottle.
    Here I give a colour guide to help new and old collectors describe their bottles.

    Check your bottle colours here you can scroll down until you see a picture of a similar bottle.




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

Blue Glass Green Glass Amber or Brown Glass Amithyst or Purple Glass
Clear Glass Milk Glass Apricot Glass Stoneware Colours

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    Blue Glass

Glass Colour: Bottle use: Comments: Colour Name:
Click to full size Picture Apothacary Jars.
Poisons.
Chemist.
Castor Oils.
Dark Cobalt Blue
Cobalt Blue
Click to full size Picture Apothacary Jars.
Poisons.
Chemist.
Castor Oils.
Mid Cobalt Blue.
Cobalt Blue.
Click to full size Picture Pickles.
Salt Jars.
 This is an unusual colour and I have only seen it on a few Pickles & Salt Jars.
 Mid Blue.
Click to full size Picture Pickles.
Salt Jars.
 This is another unusual colour and I have only seen it on a few Pickles & Salt Jars.
 Dark Blue.
Click to full size Picture Medicine.
Chemists.
Few Fruit Jars.
Ice Blue.
Cornflower Blue.
Click to full size Picture Soda Syphons.
Few Fruit Jars.
Turquoise.


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    Green Glass

Glass Colour: Bottle use: Comments: Colour Name:
Click to full size Picture All bottles & Jars
 Aqua is the natural colour of glass and comes in many shades due to impurities and the different Sands used.
Light Aqua.
Click to full size Picture All bottles & Jars
 Aqua is the natural colour of glass and comes in many shades due to impurities and the different Sands used.
Aqua.
Click to full size Picture All bottles & Jars
 Aqua is the natural colour of glass and comes in many shades due to impurities and the different Sands used.
Aqua.
Click to full size Picture All bottles & Jars
 Aqua is the natural colour of glass and comes in many shades due to impurities and the different Sands used.
Deep Aqua.
Click to full size Picture Beers.
Sarsaparillas.
Aerated Waters.
Poisons.
Emerald Green.
Click to full size Picture Beers.
Sarsaparillas.
Aerated Waters.
Poisons.
Emerald Green.
Click to full size Picture Beers.
Gins.
Aerated Waters.
Whiskys
Mid Green.
Click to full size Picture Beers.
Gins.
Aerated Waters.
Mid Olive Green.
Click to full size Picture Beers.
Gins.
Aerated Waters.
 The picture is of a Gin which is quite thin, when this colour is on a beer which are thicker glass it looks darker.
Olive Green
Click to full size Picture Goldfield Blacks.
Gins.
 Black glass looks black until you hold it up to the light, then you will see it is actually a very dark green. Black glass can also be a very dark amber or Amithist as well.
Black Glass


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    Amber or Brown Glass

Glass Colour: Bottle use: Comment: Colour Name:
Click to full size Picture Aerated Waters.
Beers.
Medicine & Cures.
Bitters.
Honey Amber.
Click to full size Picture Aerated Waters.
Modern Beers.
Medicine & Cures.
Bitters.
Amber.
Click to full size Picture Medicines & Cures
Beers.
 This is a rarer colour, generaly found in Warner's bottles but there would be the odd beer in this colour.
Olive Amber.
Click to full size Picture Warner's Cures
Beers.
Insulators.
Bitters.
 This is a rarer colour.
Red Amber.


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    Amithyst or Purple Glass

    Some Bottles change from clear glass to Amethyst glass find out why

Glass Colour: Bottle use: Comments: Colour Name:
Click to full size Picture Medicine.
Aerated Waters.
Sauces.
 These bottles were clear to begin with and turn purple in sunlight, a lot of Bottles will turn Amithyst.
Light Amithyst.
Click to full size Picture Medicine.
Aerated Waters.
Sauces.
Fruit Jars.
 These bottles were clear to begin with and turn purple in sunlight, a lot of Bottles will turn Amithyst.
Amithyst.
Click to full size Picture Medicine.
Aerated Waters.
Sauces.
 These bottles were clear to begin with and turn purple in sunlight, a lot of Bottles will turn Amithyst.
Amithyst.
Click to full size Picture Medicine.
Aerated Waters.
Sauces.
 These bottles were clear to begin with and turn purple in sunlight, a lot of Bottles will turn Amithyst.
Deep Amithyst.
Click to full size Picture Medicine.
Aerated Waters.
Sauces.
Fruit Jars.
 These bottles were clear to begin with and turn purple in sunlight, a lot of Bottles will turn Amithyst.
Deep Amithyst.


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    Clear Glass

Glass Colour: Bottle use: Comments: Colour Name:
Click to full size Picture All bottles & Jars.
Clear.
Click to full size Picture All bottles & Jars.
 Straw is a clear Jar with a tinge of yellow, hard to photograph.
 Straw.


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    Milk Glass.

Glass Colour: Bottle use: Comments: Colour Name:
Click to full size Picture Vegimite Jars.
Cold Cream Jars.
Medicines.
Bitters.
Milk Glass.


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    Apricot Glass

Glass Colour: Bottle use: Colouring Agent: Colour Name:
Click to full size Picture Soda Syphons.
 I have only seen Soda Syphons in this colour and they are all rare
 Apricot.


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    Stoneware Colours

Glass Colour: Bottle use: Comments: Colour Name:
Click to full size Picture Stoneware Ginger Beer.
Demijohns.
Cream.
Click to full size Picture Stoneware Ginger Beer.
Demijohns.
Two tone Light Tan top.
Click to full size Picture Stoneware Ginger Beer.
Demijohns.
Two tone Tan top.
Click to full size Picture Stoneware Ginger Beer.
Demijohns.
Two tone Brown top.
Click to full size Picture Stoneware Ginger Beer.
Demijohns.
Two tone Black top.
Click to full size Picture Stoneware Ginger Beer.
Demijohns.
Blue Lip.

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