Pair of Dutch colonial period "case gin" bottles by Vandenbergh and Co., ca. 1850. 577 grams, one 10-1/4" tall, 2-1/2" square sides, and 751 grams; one 9-1/2" tall, 2-1/4" square sides. Typical large shouldered bottles with applied top, polished pontil base, translucent olive-green hand-blown glass with tiny bubbles, embossed on one corner with Vandenbergh & Co. circling a bell. These bottles were made square to fit in crates on ships.
($300-450)