Glossary
- A
- Advertiques
- early advertising items. IGCB
- Amphora
- a two-handled oblong vessel used by the ancients for
holding wine or other liquids. IGCB
O
- Annealing
- the gradual cooling of hot glass in an oven or lehr. IGCB
- Apothecary
- a person who both prescribes and manufactures drugs. IGCB
- Applied color labeling
- a method of decorating a bottle by applying glass with a
low melting point to a bottle through a metal screen and
then baking it in a muffle. IGCB
B
- B
- Baltimore loop seal
- a bottle closure. IGCB
- Banana ink bottle
- a side-spouted ink bottle. IGCB
- Batch
- a mixture of the raw glassmaking materials ready for the
melting pot. IGCB
- Battledore
- a wooden paddle used to, flatten portions of a bottle as
it is being hand blown. IGCB T
- Bitters
- a patent or proprietary medicine containing alcohol; sold
without a prescription. IGCB
- Blob top
- a bottle with a rounded blob like lip; found frequently on
early soda and mineral water bottles. IGCB B
- Block
- a wooden dipper like device cut out on one side and used
during free blowing to give symmetric~ form to a bottle
in its early stages. IGCB T
- Blow-back mold
- a full-height mold with a bulb-like formation cut into
the neck of the mold to facilitate severing the completed
bottle from the blowpipe. IGCB
T
- Blow-over
- a seam mark caused when a bottle is blown in a dip
mold until the shoulder expands over the top of the mold.
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- Blowpipe
- a two- to six-foot-long hollow iron tube used to blow
glass. IGCB
- Bocca
- an opening in the side of the furnace through which the
pot is placed in the furnace; the batch is put into the
pot, and the gather is taken. IGCB
- C
- Calabash
- a gourd-shaped flask. IGCB O
- Canning jar
- See Fruit jar. IGCB
- Carboy
- a large cylindrical bottle normally holding one to ten
gallons of liquid. IGCB O
- Case bottle
- an octagonal bottle used to contain gin and designed to
pack easily in a case. IGCB
- Chair
- a wooden bench with slanting arms at which the gaffer
works. IGCB
- Chestnut flask
- a free-blown and semi-flattened flask. IGCB
- Cloisonné bottle
- a bottle (usually a Chinese snuff container) covered with
soldered metal bands between which powdered enamel is
placed and fired. IGCB
- Closure
- the device used to seal a bottle, e.g., cork, cap,
stopper, etc. IGCB
- Codd stopper
- a bottle closure. IGCB
- Co-related item
- an article directly or indirectly related to bottled
products. IGCB
- Cork
- a tree bark used as a bottle closure. IGCB
- Cristallo
- Venetian crystal glass. IGCB
- Crown cork
- a bottle closure. IGCB
- Crucible
- See Melting pot. IGCB
- Cucumber ink bottle
- a side-spouted ink bottle. IGCB
- Cullet
- broken glass included in a mixture of raw materials ready
for the melting pot. IGCB
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- Cup-bottom mold
- A full-height mold with a cup indentation in the bottom
plate. IGCB
- Cure
- a patent or proprietary medicine sold as an all-purpose
remedy. IGCB
- Cutting
- a method of decorating a bottle by cutting with an iron
wheel, a stone wheel, and a willow wheel in that order. IGCB
- D
- Decolorizing
- the process of making glass clear by the addition of
manganese, selenium, or arsenic to the batch. IGCB
- Demijohn
- a large bladder-shaped bottle normally holding one to ten
gallons of liquid. IGCB
- Dip mold
- a one-piece mold open at the top. IGCB
T
- Dunmore
- a free-blown squat wine bottle. IGCB
- E
- Empontilling
- the act of attaching a rod to the bottle-bottom so that
it can be held during the finishing process. IGCB
- Enameling
- a method of decorating a bottle by painting it with a
mixture of lead, tin, and an oxide, and then firing it in
a muffle. IGCB
- Encased postage stamp
- Civil War emergency, coin in the form of a token upon
which embossed advertisement was placed. IGCB
- Engraving
- a method of decorating glass by cutting with a copper
wheel. IGCB
- Etching
- a method of decorating glass by using hydrofluoric acid. IGCB
- Ethical medicine
- a prescribed medicine, as opposed to a patent or
proprietary medicine. IGCB
- F
- Finish
- the last step in the formation of a bottle, the
development of the lip. IGCB
- Finishing
- the completion of the neck and mouth of a bottle. IGCB
- Finishing mold
- the mold on the Owens automatic glassblowing machine into
which the gather is dropped and blown into a completed
bottle form. IGCB
- Fire grenade
- a glass bottle fire extinguisher designed to be thrown
into a fire and broken. IGCB O
- Fire polishing
- the reheating of a finished bottle to obliterate marks
left by tools or molds and to obtain a smooth surface. IGCB
- Flashing
- a method of coloring glass by dipping it in a batch of
colored glass. IGCB
- Flux
- a substance (soda) which promotes fusion in glass. IGCB
- Free.blown
- glass formed by blowing and manipulation with tools,
without the aid of a mold (in contrast to hand-blown
glass). IGCB
- Fruit jar
- a jar in which food is preserved.
- Fulgurite
- a long slender glass tube formed by lightning striking
sand. IGCB O
- G
- Gaffer
- a master blower; head of a shop. IGCB
- Gall
- a scum that rises to the top of a batch and is skimmed
off to insure high-quality glass. IGCB
- Gather
- the blob of hot glass gathered on the end of a blowpipe
before blowing. IGCB
- Gatherer
- the assistant to a gaffer who accumulates the gather op
the blowpipe. IGCB
- Gathering mold
- the mold on an Owens automatic glassblowing machine that
receives the gather from the melting pot. IGCB
- Gemel bottle
- two separate bellows-shaped bottles fused together. IGCB
- Gilding
- a method of decorating a bottle by fixing gold to the
outside of the bottle. IGCB
- Glass float
- a glass ball used by a fisherman to support his net. IGCB
- Glasshouse
- a glass factory. IGCB
- Glory hole
- a small furnace used for the frequent reheating necessary
during blowing and fire polishing. IGCB
- Graphite pontll
- an inaccurate term used to describe the mark on the
bottom of a bottle held by a solid iron-bar pontil. IGCB
- Gravitating stopper
- a bottle closure. IGCB
- H
- Half-post
- a bottle redipped after partial blowing and then blown to
completion. IGCB
- Hand-blown
- glass formed by blowing and manipulation with tools, with
the aid of a mold (in contrast to free-blown glass). IGCB
- Hinged-bottom mold
- a full-height mold hinged across the bottom. IGCB
- Hinged shoulder-height mold
- a dip mold hinged down the side. IGCB
- Historical flask
- a flask embossed with portraits, emblems, symbols, or
inscriptions. IGCB
- Hobble skirt bottle
- one of the nicknames given the 1915 Coca-Cola bottle. IGCB
- Hutchinson stopper
- a bottle closure. IGCB
- I
- Igloo ink bottle
- a side-spouted Ink bottle. IGCB
- Inside screw (thread)
- a bottle closure accepting a threaded stopper. IGCB
- J K
- Kick-up
- the bottom of a bottle pushed up into the interior during
construction; common on wine bottles. IGCB B
- Kings bottle
- a free-blown squat wine bottle. IGCB
- Laid-on ring
- a string of glass laid around the outside of the neck of
a bottle. IGCB
- L
- Lehr (leer)
- the annealing oven or furnace where glass is gradually
cooled. IGCB
- Lead glass
- glass made with flint instead of sand, potash instead of
soda, and twenty-five percent lead oxide. IGCB
- Lightning stopper
- a bottle closure.
- Lime
- an oxide of calcium used in glassmaking to reduce
solubility. IGCB
- Liquid bread
- beer. IGCB
- Liquid glass
- a casting resin used in the repairing and restoring of
bottles. IGCB
- M
- Mae West bottle
- one of the nicknames given the 1915 Coca-Cola bottle. IGCB
- Marble bottle
- See Codd stopper. IGCB
- Marble stopper
- See Codd stopper. IGCB
- Marver
- a metal slab upon which a gather of glass is rolled. IGCB
- Master ink bottle
- a bulk container for ink.
- Melting pot
- the large clay pot in which a batch is melted. IGCB
- Metal
- glass in either its molten or hard state. IGCB
- Mickey Mouse insulator
- See Saddle groove. IGCB
- Muffle
- a small furnace. IGCB T
- Mull
- an implement used to contain and pulverize snuff. IGCB
- N
- Nostrum
- a worthless patent or proprietary medicine. IGCB
- O
- Obsidian
- a glass created by volcanoes. IGCB
- Off-hand
- See Free-blown. IGCB
- Onion bottle
- a free-blown squat wine bottle. IGCB
- Opalescence
- See Sick glass. IGCB
- Overlay
- a method of decorating a bottle by cutting through one or
more purposely applied layers of glass. IGCB
- Q P
- Parison
- an inflated gather. IGCB
- Patent medicine
- a medicine that has been patented and is sold without a
prescription. IGCB
- Pattern mold
- a dip mold with a design cut into it. IGCB
- Petticoat insulator
- an insulator featuring a flaring outer skirt of glass
over an inner one. IGCB
- Pharmaceutist
- an early term for pharmacist. IGCB
- Pictorial flask
- a flask bearing a purely decorative motif.
- Pig bottle
- See Codd stopper. IGCB
- Plate mold
- a full-height mold designed to receive a plate into which
lettering and/or design has been cut. IGCB
- Pontie
- See Pontil. IGCB
- Pontil
- a long solid or hollow rod used to hold the bottle during
the finishing process. IGCB
- Pontil scar
- the scar left by the pontil on the completed bottle. IGCB
- Pony insulator
- the smallest type of insulator. IGCB
- Post
- See Snap. IGCB
- Post-bottom mold
- a full-height mold with a post on the bottom plate. IGCB
- Private-die proprietary revenue stamp
- a revenue stamp required on many bottled products, 18621883
and 18981900. IGCB
- Proof
- an arbitrary measurement of alcoholic strength in which
pure ethyl alcohol is rated 200. IGCB
- Proprietary medicine
- an unpatented medicine sold without prescription. IGCB
- Pucelias
- an iron tong-like tool for shaping glass. IGCB
- Pumpkinseed bottle
- an oval whiskey flask. IGCB
- Punte
- See Pontil.
- Puntelljum
- See Pontil. IGCB
- Punty
- See Pontil. IGCB
- R
- Round-bottom bottle
- a soda or mineral water bottle with a rounded bottom. IGCB
- S
- Sabot
- See Snap. IGCB
- Saddle groove insulator
- an insulator with a depression in the top. IGCB
- Salt glaze
- an orange peel finish on pottery containers achieved by
throwing salt into the kiln during firing. IGCB
- Screw cap
- a bottle closure. IGCB
- Seam
- a mark on a bottle caused by glass assuming the shape of
the mold where the two halves meet. IGCB
- Servitor
- the glassblower who is first assistant to the gaffer. IGCB
- Shop
- a gaffer and his helpers; a gatherer, a servitor, and a
boy [within a factory MF]. IGCB
- Show-window bottle
- a highly decorated bottle used for show in drugstores. IGCB
- Sick glass
- glass that has corroded through excessive and long
exposure to moisture. IGCB
- Silica
- sand. IGCB
- Snap
- a spring cradle-type device which replaced the pontil as
a holding tool. IGCB
- Specific
- a patent or proprietary medicine sold as a single-purpose
medicine. IGCB
- Squat
- a free-blown squat wine bottle.
- Staining
- a method of coloring a bottle by dipping it in a stain. IGCB
- Suction machine cutoff scar
- a mark left on the bottom of a container made by the
Owens automatic glassblowing machine. IGCB
- Sun-colored glass
- glass containing manganese that has reacted to the
ultraviolet rays of the sun by turning purple or amethyst.
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- T
- Tap-hole jar
- an English term for an inside-screw bottle. IGCB
- Target bottle (bail)
- a glass ball designed to be shot at by sportsmen. IGCB
- Teakettle ink bottle
- a side-spouted ink bottle. IGCB
- Terrarium
- a garden in a bottle [or sealed aquarium shaped container MF]. IGCB
- Three-part mold
- 1) a full-height mold with three hinged vertical parts; 2)
a full-height mold with a dip-mold body and a two-part
shoulder section. IGCB
- Tiger Whiskey bottle
- a bulbous pottery bottle that held rice wine from China. IGCB
- Tool
- See Pucelias. IGCB
- Torpedo bottle
- a soda or mineral water bottle with a torpedo-shaped
bottom. IGCB
- Trade card
- an advertising card. IGCB
- Transposition insulator
- an insulator designed to hold more than one wire. IGCB
- Turn mold
- a process by which a blown bottle is spun in the mold
before removal to erase seam markings. IGCB
- U
- Umbrella ink bottle
- a conical eight-sided bottle. IGCB
- V W
- Watch ball
- See Witch Ball. IGCB
- Weathering
- a process by which glass suffers damage from the forces
of nature. IGCB
- Wetting off
- marking the neck of a hot bottle with water so that it
can easily be broken from the blowpipe. IGCB
- Whittle marks
- wavy, dimpled, or hammered marks on a completed bottle
caused by blowing the container in a cold mold. IGCB
- Wistarburg
- a free-blown squat wine bottle. IGCB
- Witch ball
- a glass ball hung in homes to protect against witches. IGCB
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