Pair of Dutch Gin Bottles c1800

Description

Heading : Pair of 18th century Dutch gin bottles
Period : Willem II
Date : 1780-1820
Origin : Holland
Colour : Olive green
Body : Case form with four tapering sides and an applied rim
Foot : Sticky ball or sand pontil
Glass Type : Soda
Size : 20.3cm tall and 6.3cm square at widest   
Condition : Very good. some internal residue as expected
Restoration : None
Weight : 704 grams combined

There is more to a gin bottle you than meets the eye. Jenever. Hollands . Dutch gin. call it what you may was widely used as collateral in 18th century trade. The bottles were made to stack efficiently within the holds of ships. Gin. guns and cloth were the most frequently used barter goods for traders in Britain and Portugal engaged in the slave trade.