Featured Amethyst Ship's Decanter, Unmarked, Unusual Pontil

Weight is ~27 3/4 oz, capacity perhaps as much as 24 oz; it's 8 3/4" high to the lip, ~7" max diameter, ~1 5/8" ground pontil, ~3 5/8" OD base wear pattern. The ground stopper adds ~2 3/8" to the height. I've had it for ~60 years, acquired in San Diego in the early 1960's. I've never filled it or even thought to use it.
The pontil grind is incomplete, in that it leaves a long, narrow concave furrow ~1 1/8" by ~1/4" in its bottom; note that the gaps in the wear scratches are aligned with that furrow, which can be seen through the bottom from inside (pic 5).
I've done zero research on this piece until this post...what can y'all say about it? Thanks for lookin'!

 

Looks similar to this one...

https://www.keysauctions.co.uk/auct...0&au=239&ef=&et=&ic=False&sd=0&pp=96&pn=1&g=1

 

similars noted as Thomas Webb

thomas webb amethyst ships decanter - page 1 | WorthPoint

 

love that squat shape, looks a nice one. can just imagine swirling some booze around at the bottom (no i'm not missing it)

 

Are you on the wagon, buddy?

 

yeah have been for a while sabe, fell off the bugger a few times though

 

Right on Chas- I've had my share for this lifetime (or 10 !).

 

'I've had it for ~60 years, acquired in San Diego in the early 1960's.' Dang-When Bob Dylan was still a runt !
Was JFK still alive ?
PS- It's a beauty Whit,early find for the States.1809-1817 James Madison would've been President.

 

Probably...November 22, '63 was just 3 months after I left the Air Force; I hadn't yet begun my acquisitive walk-about. But soon after...certainly by the end of '65; I found it in an antique shop on Adams Avenue, in an older SD neighborhood. There weren't 'garage' or 'yard' sales of any significance yet, but quite a few 'second hand' shops, mostly junk stores overseen by old folks in repurposed commercial spaces in seedy neighborhoods. Them were the daze!

 

Very Good, both of you...Thanks a LOT!

 

Whit-I figure You were in during the Cuban Missile Crisis,what a time !

 

They'd be none left to swirl if it was yours.

 

Wish I had a time machine !

 

Yes. The bottle would be full again.

 

Why? So you could return to wearing 3-cornered pants an' waiting for your teeth to come in? HaHaHa!

 

So I could shop in those 1965 Thrifts and bring the treasure back to sell in 2025.
PS-There's a funny thing that occurs in S. King's book '11/22/63' novel abt the Kennedy Assassination. A chap who runs a diner in a small Maine town discovers a time portal to the late 50's in his storage room,buys ground round for 19 cents a pound, and sells astoundingly cheap burgers in modern America.

 

That will destroy the space/time continuum. Have you ever seen back to the future?

 

Oh NO-I went back,and look where it got Us !

 

Ha...haven't heard 'ground round' in years!