A 9" tall cylinder-shaped beautiful TRANSLUCENT GREEN colored antique BLOB TOP MINERAL WATER bottle.  This is a very early hand Blown Into Mold bottle (BIM) with an APPLIED top, dating it all the way back to the 1800's, a good ONE CENTURY OLD.

• Condition:   Bottle is in NICE CLEAN condition.   It has some small areas of wear and stain - from age and use.  NO cracks, chips, dings, damage, etc.  PLEASE see pictures for accurate idea of overall condition.

• Age: An early hand-blown bottle w/ applied top (Blown-In-Mold = BIMAL) with a crudely applied top, ca. late 1800's.

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A labeled example of this bottle revealed that it contained a mineral water that claimed to cure just about every ailment known to mankind, and a few others that I didn't recognize.  Though many of these are embossed on the base with the name "BITTERQUELLE" on it, these were NOT bitters bottles, but mineral water bottles.  This bottle is full of whittle marks = swirls in the glass that just come to life when the sun shines through it.    Though 'whittle marks' is the term used to describe the wavy swirled texture of glass in a bottle, the 'whittle marks' aren't really from a wooden mold being whittled, because a wooden mold was NOT used to blow the bottle in.  The "whittle marks" are the result of hot molten glass hitting a cold iron MOLD, like when the first bottle of the day was blown in a mold.   Until the molds heated up, all the bottles that were blown in the cold mold will have this 'whittle effect' which translates into a totally beautiful bottle for collector's today, check it out!

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