Green Bubble Pattern Depression Glass Bocksbeutel Bottle.

The Bocksbeutel is a type of bottle with the form of a flattened ellipsoid. It is commonly used for wines from Franconia in Germany, but is also used for some Portuguese wines and in rare cases for Italian wine and Greek wine. The shape has existed since antiquity and is known as the field bottle by modern scholars, as it was primarily used by workers in ancient agriculture, with the shape specifically made so that it could easily be set or laid down while working without fear of the bottle rolling away. 

Condition: Commensurate with age. 

Size: 5 1/2 x 3 1/4 x 9 3/4 in. 

Depression glass is glassware made in the period 1929 to 1939, often clear or colored translucent machine-made glassware that was distributed free, or at low cost, in the United States and Canada around the time of the Great Depression. Depression glass is so called because collectors generally associate mass-produced glassware in pink, yellow, crystal, green, and blue with the Great Depression in America. Most of the glassware was made in the Ohio River Valley, where access to raw materials and power made manufacturing inexpensive in the first half of the 20th Century. More than twenty manufacturers made more than 100 patterns, and entire dinner sets were made in some patterns. Common colors are clear (crystal), pink, pale blue, green, and amber. Less common colors include yellow (canary), ultramarine, jadeite (opaque pale green), delphite (opaque pale blue), cobalt blue, red (ruby and royal ruby), black, amethyst, monax, and white (milk glass). Some depression glass has become highly collectible since the 1960s, with rare pieces (such as uranium glass, or ones branded by major companies) may sell for several hundred dollars. Some manufacturers continued to make popular patterns after World War II, or introduced similar patterns, due to their popularity and inexpensive production, and reproductions are still being made today in some countries in Asia.

Commensurate with age. 

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