Green Glass Shard with a Giraffe Head?

by Heidi
(Atlantic City NJ)

Found green glass shard with a giraffe head (?) on it off the Atlantic City New Jersey Boardwalk.

Found green glass shard with a giraffe head (?) on it off the Atlantic City New Jersey Boardwalk.

I don't think this is all that old.


Thin and curved with a minimum of tumbling the inside still shiny.

The reason I think it's a giraffe is because it has a little horn on top of its head even though it doesn't seem to have giraffe markings on its neck.

There is a slight seam to the right where there a a shallow bend in the glass.

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Jun 15, 2018
 My daughter has some too!
by: Helen from NJ

My daughter found some pieces just like that yesterday at a beach on the NJ side of the Delaware Bay!
Sep 24, 2016
 I found one exactly like it
by: Nancy Stahl

I found a shard exactly like it at the Jersey shore on the delaware bay. It does not look like the tonsiline pictures on internet. I wish I could send a picture but this site does not allow that on replys. email me if you want to see the image.
raystahlx (at) gmail dot com

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Nancy, if you send us photos we can post them for you. David and Lin - davidadmin at odysseyseaglass dot com
Jun 11, 2016
 Atlantic City Green Mystery
by: Heidi

Thanks to all of you for your interest in my find.

I am happy to find some of my own people!
I wish it were from an old Tonsiline bottle, but I think maybe not.

The piece I have does not seem to match the district features of those antique medicine bottles.

I worked really hard to get good photos of it. The head and neck are disembodied (no shoulders) and the markings a very shallowly raised.

I found it at the mouth of the Abscond Inlet and there is a little bit of the old atlantic city still standing and some of it being tumbled around on the shoreline.

Perhaps my piece is from a newer bottle (liquor?) It was nearby the now defunct Revel. i somehow picture some "revelers" trying hard to create a good time throwing a bottle of expensive liquor into the sea on some moon lit night.

Am I being too romantic about the whole thing?
Jun 08, 2016
 Animals in Glass
by: Momcat Christi

I was at the Wheaton Arts Center in Millville NJ today (abut 40 mi from Atlantic City; they have the most amazing collection of glass I have ever seen. (google it; no HTML allowed here)

I saw an old, intact milk bottle with a cow "pressed" into the glass like your giraffe/horse head.

I took a photo but I can't seem to post it with the text. Did they make milk bottles in green glass?

They also noted how animal "imprints" were common on spirits bottles.

One of the points they make a few times in the museum is how perfect the sand is in NJ for making green glass, due to the minerals in their sand. The area was a huge glass manufacturing center up until the early 1920s.
Jun 08, 2016
 Giraffe with sore throat it is
by: David at OdysseySeaGlass

Diane said, "Looks like a Tonsiline Bottle for sore throat medication. Early 1900."

A quick search of Google images reveals that is exactly what it is. Copy and paste this link into your browser:

http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=313746&d=1332352518

Great work, Diane!
Jun 08, 2016
 Horse
by: Jim

The embossed animal on that beach shard sure looks like a horse to me. The "horn" is his other ear.
Jun 07, 2016
 Unicorn?
by: Bluehowler

I've nothing to add for identification purposes except perhaps it is a unicorn, not a giraffe?
Jun 07, 2016
 Really nice!!
by: Dianne

Looks like a Tonsiline Bottle for sore throat medication. Early 1900.

Great find!
Jun 07, 2016
 Interesting shard
by: David & Lin

I don't believe we've seen anything like this shard before. Does anyone recognize this marking?

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