An all too common mistake that sellers make, while listing bottles on ebay, is calling a tooled lip an applied lip . This is really only the tip of the iceburg when it comes to antique bottle inaccuracies, but...
Crown style tops, usually seen on soda and beer bottles, were patented in the United States in 1892 . If you know your history, you know the U.S. Patents from this time period, don't mean much. In truth, this...
In the 1800's, there were certain bottled products that enjoyed a massive chunk of the market share. For liniments it was Johnson's American Anodyne , shoe blacking (polish) there was Whittemore's French Gloss...
In old dump sites, where a lot of bio-debris, wood, paper, metal and tin cans were discarded along with the bottles you are going after, there's a lot of movement in the ground over the following decades....