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It was apparently blown in a true, though asymmetrical, two-piece mold where one portion of the mold formed the base, heel and underside of the neck with the other portion forming the entire body and upper portion of the neck.

- This commonly encountered bottle style on mid-ish 20th century historic sites is what the maker - the Owen-Illinois Glass Co.

Skrip ink was first produced by the company in 1922 and was particularly suited for use in fountain pens; it is still in production today.

I believe the D-23 7 may be a distillery code.

Since this distinctive style is unknown with either pontil scars or as machine-made bottles, this supports the noted date range well Covill 1971; empirical observations.

, and likely some in Pennsylvania and Ohio Covill 1971.

These early conical inks are relatively uncommon; the "umbrella" style ink covered later in this section was much more commonly made during the 1830s to 1870s era.

It was first packaged in aqua, flask shaped bottles that were simply embossed with AYER in the center of the base; image to the right.

Later machine-made variations probably no earlier than the 1930s had screw cap finishes.

It is the only Florida Water bottle known to the author that was early enough to be pontil scarred.

This is a style that was most likely first produced in Europe in the early 19th century but also made later in the U.

For an idea of the wide variety of toilet water, cologne and perfume bottles from just one manufacturer Illinois Glass Company in the 1920s take a look at pages 64 to 73 machine-made and 137 to 165 all likely hand blown of their and pages 72 to 91 machine-made and 205 to 230 still hand blown of their showing a scores of different designs.