Chartreuse Liqueur Bottle Acid Etched Hand Blown Tooled Lip French - Antique

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Chartreuse Liqueur Bottle Acid Etched Hand Blown Tooled Lip French - Antique:
$39.99

Chartreuse Liqueur Bottle, Acid Etched, Hand Blown, Tooled Lip, French - Antique

Super nice, antique, Chartreuse liqueur bottle. Hand blown with a tooled lip and vestiges of one seam on the shoulder. Curiously it has rotating stretch marks in the body as if its been hand turned even though there is a bit of a seam. Could it have been turned after it came out of the mold to eliminate the molds lines? Or re-fired to polish the seam out?

Acid-etched markings. There are some bubbles in the glass and the finish (lip) is not completely uniform although it is turned and not applied. No seam whatsoever in the base or even where the body attaches to the base.

I do not know it\'s age. I bought it with a lot of other antique bottles, some of them pre-1860. This one could be older than that. It could also be newer. I just don\'t know.

I do know it\'s an awesome bottle.

Measures 9 1/2\" tall. It\'s a great old bottle that originally housed a famous international liqueur.

\"Chartreuse is a French liqueurmade by the Carthusian Monks since 1737 according to the instructions set out in the secret manuscript given to them by Francois Annibal d\'Estrees in 1605. It is composed of distilled alcoholaged with 130 herbs, plants and flowers. The liqueur is named after the Monks\' Grande Chartreusemonastery, located in the Chartreuse Mountainsin the general region of Grenoblein France. The liqueur is produced in their distillery in the nearby town of Voiron(Isere). Until the 1980s, there was another distillery atTarragonain Spain.

Chartreuse gives its name to the color chartreuse which was first used as a term of color in 1884. It is one of the handful of liquors that continues to age and improve in the bottle.\" - From Wikepedia