Bottles 101: Bottle Bases

We'll be doing a series of informative videos detailing the elements that make up an antique bottle. First up, bottle bases and the differences between them. You'll learn about graphite, sticky ball, smooth bases, etc.

[@amie9416]

Very helpful video! Thank you!

[@Travelling..Bottle..Digger]

good stuff. Thanks for sharing

[@fionajordan7219]

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[@sharkin4five]

thanks great vid!!!! helped me alot.!!!

[@tomfrazier1103]

I found these about 1 oz. footed shot glasses with ground off pontil. The site was pretty definitely 1893 and I found one pontiled cologne. Other slick sunken panels had a circular mark in the base, a sort of artificial "Pontil" applied because people were "Used" to it. One sees this in stereotypical bottles like Pitcher's Castoria-Machine made Castoria then screw tops on otherwise "old" sunken panel type designs. People in the old days had a sense of what was self-consciously "Olde" as much as any modern retro aficionado. In the later '30s into the '40s the term "Gay '90s" came into wide use, no isms at large, cars a new novelty &c.

[@tonyakruid2095]

I have been collecting soda bottles for years and just started getting into old medicinal bottles and could never find a good video explaining how to identify age

[@gregomontealegre8898]

I have some antique bottles too!

[@stevencurtis3693]

DO US ALL A FAVOR.....STOP FONDLING THE BOTTLE!!! IM DIZZY, BUT THE INFORMATION WAS GOOD.

[@thatrat3717]

Why are you moving it around so much? Chill bro