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by FreeFind

    Tops on Australian Found Bottles

    You can help identify what type of bottle you have by the lip or top and the shoulder of the bottle, or you can scroll down until you see a picture of a similar bottle.



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Aerated Waters Beers Gin, Schnapps & Bitters Milk Bottles
Chemist, Medicine, Cure & Remedy Ginger Beers & Demijohns

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    Aerated Waters

Bottle Top: Closure Type: Patent Name: Nickname:
Codd or Marble Bottles
Click to full size Picture Marble & rubber ring stopper.
Hand applied lip
 Variation of Codd's Patent
 Allway Pour Codd
Click to full size Picture Marble & rubber ring stopper.
Hand applied lip
 Dobson Patent
 Dobson
Click to full size Picture Marble & rubber ring stopper.
Hand applied lip
 Variation of Codd's Patent
 Bulge Patent
Click to full size Picture Marble & rubber ring stopper.
Hand applied lip
 Niagra Patent
 Teardrop Patent
Other Patents.
Click to full size Picture Ebonite or Lignumvitae bullet & rubber ring stopper.
Hand applied lip
 Lamont Patent
 Lamont
Click to full size Picture Ebonite or Lignumvitae threaded stopper.
Hand applied internal thread lip
 Blob Top Riley Patent
 Blob Top Internal Thread
Click to full size Picture Ebonite or Lignumvitae threaded stopper.
Machine applied internal thread lip
 Machine Top Riley Patent
 Machine Top Internal Thread
Click to full size Picture Metal Crown seal cap.
Some can have hand applied lips most have Machine applied lips.
 Crown Seal Patent
 Crown Seal or Crown Cap
Click to full size Picture Wooden 'Stick' with rubber ring attached stopper.
Hand applied lip
 Hogben Patent (Vic)
Barrett's Patent (N.S.W)
Hogben & Barrett's Patent (S.A)
 Stick Bottle
Click to full size Picture Cork Stopper.
Hand applied lip
 Referred to as the 'Hamilton Patent' although Hamilton only Patented the Contents
 Hamilton Patent
Torpedo
Bomb
Pointy Ender
Click to full size Picture Cork Stopper.
Hand applied lip
Flat Foot Hamilton Patent
Skittle
Click to full size Picture Aluminium Screw cap.
Machine applied external thread lip
Screw Top
Click to full size Picture Tops can be Crome or Pewter with a spring and glass tube.
Most Syphons are machine made even the very early ones
Soda Syphon
Seltzer Syphon
Soda Siphon
Seltzer Siphon


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    Beer Bottles

Bottle Top: Closure Type: Patent Name: Nickname:
Beers
Click to full size Picture Cork Stopper.
Hand applied lip.
Wrap top beer.
Click to full size Picture Cork Stopper.
Hand applied lip.
Ring seal beer.
Iron bum.
Click to full size Picture Metal Crown seal cap.
Some can have hand applied lips most have Machine applied lips.
Crown Seal
Long neck Crown Seal


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    Gin, Schnapps & Bitters bottles

Bottle Top: Closure Type: Patent Name: Nickname:
Gin Bottles
Click to full size Picture Cork stopper
Hand tooled lip.
Flare Top Gin.
Pig Snout Gin.
Click to full size Picture Cork stopper
Hand applied lip.
Gin.
Free blown Gin
Click to full size Picture Cork stopper.
Hand applied lip.
This top is off a Sealed Booths Gin.
Seal.
Bitters Bottles
Click to full size Picture Cork stopper.
Bitters tend to have longer necks than Schnapps bottles.
Hand applied lip.
Bitters
Schnapps Bottles
Click to full size Picture Cork stopper.
Hand applied lip.
Schnapps


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    Milk Bottles

Bottle Top: Closure Type: Patent Name: Nickname:
Modern Milks 1920 on
Click to full size Picture Cardboard Wad or Cap stopper.
Machine applied lip.
Wide mouth milk.
Click to full size Picture Aluminium Cap.
Machine applied lip.
Modern milk.
Common milk.
Aluminium top milk.


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    Chemist, Medicine, Cure & Remedy Bottles

    These bottles are all very similar, the embossing will tell you if the bottle was a Cure or Remedy etc.
Bottle Top: Closure Type: Patent Name: Nickname:
Chemist bottles
Click to full size Picture Cork stopper.
Hand applied lip.
Chemist.
Medicine.
Click to full size Picture Cork stopper.
Machine applied lip.
Chemist.
Medicine.
Medicine Bottles
Click to full size Picture Cork stopper.
Hand applied lip.
Medicine.
Click to full size Picture Cork stopper.
Hand applied lip.
Chemist.
Medicine.
Click to full size Picture Cork stopper.
Hand applied lip.
Medicine.
Remedy Bottles
Click to full size Picture Cork stopper.
Hand applied lip.
Remedy.
Medicine.
Cure Bottles
Click to full size Picture Cork stopper.
Hand applied lip.
Cure.


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    Ginger Beer Bottles & Demijohns

Bottle Top: Closure Type: Patent Name: Nickname:
Stoneware Ginger Beer & Demijohns
Click to full size Picture Cork stopper.
Hand applied pottery lip.
Ginger Beer.
G.B.
Click to full size Picture Pottery internal thread stopper.
Hand applied pottery lip.
Internal thread Ginger Beer.
Internal thread G.B.
Click to full size Picture Cork stopper.
Hand applied pottery lip.
Demijohn.
Demi.
Glass Ginger Beers
Click to full size Picture Metal Crown seal cap stopper.
Machine applied pottery lip.
 Crown Seal Patent
 Glass Ginger Beer.
Glass G.B.

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