bottles

My leisure time was once divided between metal detecting and dump digging. Dating mostly from the Victorian period, old bottles make a
fascinating study - the shapes and colours being so diverse.
Bottles were usually produced in a two piece
mould. The lip, known as an 'applied lip' was
attached by hand after the moulding process. Large numbers of bottles had no lip applied -
they are called 'sheared lip' types and were cheaper to manufacture. Some had stoppers made of glass but most used cork as a means
of enclosure.