THE DEMIJOHN PAGE
PAGE 6 - DEMIJOHN QUIZ
If you started at the first (home) page, you've had the opportunity to read about the history of demijohns, and you've seen images of a wide range of big bottles. Most of those bottles are easy to label as "demijohn" or "carboy" or "other."
There are some glass bottles which may not be so easy to assign to one category or the other. Here are some bottles which have some features of a demijohn - and may be demijohns, after all . . . or not. Tell us what you think.
Would you call both of these bottles demijohns? Both bottles are about twelve inches tall. They have about the same capacity (two liters or a half-gallon). The bottle on the right is probably about the same age as the one on the left -- the second half of the 19th century. The bottle on the right has a glass pontil scar. Both have a hand-applied lip finish. Both would have used a cork closure.
Are these demijohns? They are five-liter colorless glass vessels with an applied string rim. About twelve inches tall, turned in a mold, smooth bases. >
Which of these bottles might reasonably be called a demijohn? How large must a wicker bottle be to qualify? The bottle on the left is eight inches tall with a capacity of one quart (or one liter). The bottle on the right has a capacity of 200 ml.
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