How do you date old beer bottles?
How do you date old beer bottles? There are three keys to help with dating most bottles:Side seams: None: bottle may be free blown, in which case it has a very uneven shape and dates before 1860. Base type (for examples, click here): Open pontilled: usually date before 1860. Top type (for examples, see click here): How can you tell how old a beer bottle is? You can determine the approximate age of an old bottle just based on its lip. After the glassblower removed the bottle from the mold, he affixed a hot glass lip to the bottle's neck....