Item PAN13
This Item was Sold on 3 October
2020 for $14
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This beautiful old bottle is probably from Belfast
Ireland. It has a round bottom and you can see seams on the
side from the mold that was used to cast this bottle out of
turquoise glass. There are lots of bubbles in the glass. The
words " Ross's " and " Belfast " are embossed in large
letters along the sides, 180 degrees apart. The bottle is in
very good condition. There are some small chips on the
sides, but no propagating cracks. I found this bottle in
1966 while snorkeling about 100 yards off of the sandy beach
at the base of Fort San Lorenzo near the mouth of the
Chagres River on the Atlantic coast of Panama. The age is
approximately 125 - 175 years of age. It is not a pirate
artifact. Instead, it is probably a relic from the days of
the gold miners disembarking at the mouth of the Chagres and
on the way to the Pacific Coast to catch a ship to
California. Anyway, it is a very nice collectible and it
deserves a good home.