Early Lattice/ Quilted Bottles by Richard Sheaff
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have been interested for decades in an enigmatic type of bottle nobody seems to know anything about. Over the years I have discussed them with many glass folks, searched museum records and holdings, and consulted many books about early glass both American and foreign. Thus far, nada. Lane and Pappas (A Rare Collection of Keene & Stoddard Glass, 1970, Plate 4) included two such bottles, both 8-sided, shown along with various Keene “quilted” blown three mold bottles, speculating — based on color — that possibly they were early Keene products. That attribution has never gained traction. I have three related bottles in my collection, two 8-sided and one 4-sided. I have heard various tentative guesses about their age and origin over the years. Many think them older than the earliest New England glass. Some think they may have been made in Holland, or Germany, or the Middle-East, or Spain. One European dealer I queried a few years back said that he thought they were Victorian-
INSET: The two bottles shown in Lane and Pappas. The one on the left is 9 1/2” tall, the one on the right 8 1/2” with a “notched” (pinched) applied neck ring. BACKGROUND: This bottle looks to be another example the Lane and Pappas bottles. It is 9 1/2” tall, olive green with streaks of amber. It was blown into a mold, with the mouth snapped off the blowpipe. An applied neck ring was then added, pinched in a decorative way.
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