[H]7.5cm __[L] __[W] __[Th] __[Diam]1.4cm (Neck); 3.2cm (Base)
A small, glass pharmaceutical bottle that is almost complete, but is broken off partway up the neck. The bottle is made of aqua coloured glass, and some of the surface appears iridescent. Elsewhere, it appears opaque from cream coloured residue on the interior. The body and neck are cylindrical shaped and the shoulders are rounded. It was created using a two-piece mould, which is evidenced by a faint seam line on either side of the body. The seam ends at the bottom of either side and does not extend across the base, suggesting that the base was a separate piece that the two-pieces were fused onto. There appears to be a very slightly raised circular ring on the base, which is positioned off-center.
Although the original contents or brand of this bottle are unknown, it is indicated as being created from a two-piece mould with a separate base, which appears to have been a cup-bottom mould. This type of mould would have at least two pieces to form the neck, shoulders, and body (sometimes the finish) that would be joined on top of a base plate with a shallow depression, or “cup”, to make the base. This produced seams down the sides that would stop before the base and connect to a horizontal seam above the heel. With some moulds, this “bottom plate parting line” was not visible, as is the case with this pharmaceutical bottle. Two (or more) part moulds with a separate base became the most common mould type around the 1850s, until the emergence of machine-made bottles in the early 20th century.
