THE DEMIJOHN PAGE
Page 4 - Gallery
Demijohn 17 - Black (amethyst) glass, applied lip, turn mold, smooth base. Probably Continental.
with a 500Watt
photo lamp.
Demijohn 18 - Yellow-amber with red streaks corkscrewing in the glass. Turn mold, applied lip, smooth base, capacity 5 liters. Late 19th Century, probably German.
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< Demijohn 19 - Decanter bottle with seal, 12.25 inches tall (a half-gallon), black (olive-green) glass, pontil-scarred base, applied double-collar lip, started in a dip-mold. Embossed on the applied seal is MADERA (sic). Madeira is a wine fortified with alcohol made on the Portuguese island of the same name. The island lies some 500 miles to the SE of Portugal. The wine was developed to serve British tastes. The British (or Americans) who used this bottle probably used it to decant the cask in which the wine was shipped. There is no apparent wear on the bottle, except for slight base wear, and the bottle may have had a covering to protect it in use. Probably British, circa 1800-1815. |
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Demijohn 20 - Kidney-shaped, red-amber glass, 18 inches tall x 12 inches wide x 8 inches deep (five gallons), blown in a hinge mold, smooth base, applied and tooled lip, American, 1860-80. >
Demijohns 21 & 22 - A pair of black glass (olive-green) cylinders, 12.5 and 12.75 inches tall... a half-gallon.
On left - single sloping collar lip, blown in a "bottom hinge" mold, pontil scarred base.
Possibly American, circa 1850.
On right - a crude double collar lip (which is an uncommon lip finish for a demijohn), blown in a three-piece mold, smooth base, probably English, circa 1850.
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Demijohn 23 - Globular form, 20 inches tall (5 gallons), colorless glass, applied and tooled lip, American, mid-1800s. Stencilled on the wicker cover is:
MYER & CO
FULTON
COVINGTON, KY
Myer & Company shipped whiskey in these bottles in the mid-nineteenth century. "Fulton" is a whiskey brand acquired when Myer bought out the distillery. >
< Demijohn 24 - Dip-mold blown cylinder with a glass pontil scar. Probably English or American
circa 1800.
Demijohns 25 - Four large bottles embossed 1987, 17 and 16 (liters), and 10 (liters). Crudely blown, with large glass pontil scars There are other sizes in this series down to 2 liters. Five liter bottles may be most common. German, Nineteenth Century.
< Demijohn 26 - apple form, 14.25 inches tall. Blown in a 3-piece mold with an applied tooled lip and a large, rough pontil scar. The shoulder is embossed "5" (for 5 liters) . [see the images at left.] German, 19th Century.
Metal tag, affixed at the shoulder by a staple to the wicker cover, which reads "5 LITER" and "D. R. G. M."
"D.R.G.M." represents "Deutsches Reich Gebrauchs Muster" which translates to "German Empire Registered Design". The German Empire was established in 1871.
Demijohn 27 - Rootbeer-amber flattened ovoid, 17.5 inches tall. Sheared lip, applied string, smooth base. Blown in a two-piece mold. The glass is full of seed bubbles. Continental, 19th Century.
Demijohn 28 - Olive-green tapered cylinder, 18.25 inches tall (five gallons), blown in a three-piece mold, crudely applied and tooled lip, bottom with a glass pontil scar. The glass is loaded with veils of micro-bubbles and galaxies of black specks. Notice how the applied lip is not mated smoothly inside the neck of the bottle. Possibly American, probably from 1840-60.
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< Demijohn 29 - tapered cylinder, 12.5 inches tall, green glass, smooth base, probably dip-mold blown, applied and tooled lip. Continental, late 1800s.
< Demijohn 30 - Aquamarine glass full of seeed bubbles, flattened apple shape, 12.75 inches tall (three liters). Blown in a two-piece mold with a glass pontil scar. Origin unknown, mid-19th century.
