I've always thought of Bottle green as being somewhere between your
typical green glass of the American colonial/ revolutionary period...
and what those nasty flies have on them. So of course I had to look and
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn says it is dark to moderate or greyish
green
The
I agree that because dye processes on each type of fabric varies, it
would be hard to find one exact example of what bottle green is
precisely, especially since the dyes and materials used in the early
19th century were different from what is readily available today but
don't quote me on that