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Cleaning a bottle with a label - 6/22/2009 8:47:57 PM    mikeamondo   Posts: 17 Joined: 12/25/2004 Status: offline We're restoring an old house and while pulling down the ceiling in the basement, under the kitchen, we found several old bottles...  an 1858 Mason Jar and a Ball Mason Jar, as well as two dark colored bottles with labels on them...  Thos' something's something...  can't read it due to heavy dirt layer on the label.  I have no clue how to clean the paper label without destroying it.  We also found a Welch's Grape Juice bottle with a label intact and dated 1916... hoping it will clean up nicely as well...   So... does anyone have any advice about how to clean heavily soiled labels on old bottles?   thanks, Mike Post #: 1

RE: Cleaning a bottle with a label - 6/22/2009 9:03:18 PM    cyberdigger Posts: 12291 Joined: 11/29/2008 From: I 195 @ US 9, NJ USA Status: online Hmmm.. restoring a paper label and riding my bicycle to the moon are 2 things still on my list.. ..hopefully the dirt can be brushed off. Make sure everything is completely dry and use a very soft brush very gently. Post some pics if you can, maybe someone will know what they are in their present condition.. show us the 1858 mason jar, too, if it has a smaller sized mouth.. (in reply to mikeamondo) Post #: 2

RE: Cleaning a bottle with a label - 6/23/2009 6:51:41 AM    mikeamondo   Posts: 17 Joined: 12/25/2004 Status: offline Was afraid of that...  the brush might do the trick, though.  You can almost read the labels as they are.  One has "One Full Pint" in raised letters in the glass.  I'll try and get some pics in the next day or two. (in reply to cyberdigger) Post #: 3

RE: Cleaning a bottle with a label - 6/24/2009 8:34:27 AM    tigue710 Posts: 4140 Joined: 7/11/2007 From: connecticut - nor cal Status: offline best way I know is to try brushing them very gently with a dry brush while they are also dry...  If they are to fragile for that I dont know.. _____________________________ •={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•= (in reply to mikeamondo) Post #: 4

RE: Cleaning a bottle with a label - 6/24/2009 9:11:53 PM    mikeamondo   Posts: 17 Joined: 12/25/2004 Status: offline I'm going to try and post some pics of the bottles...  Attachment (1) (in reply to tigue710) Post #: 5

RE: Cleaning a bottle with a label - 6/24/2009 9:13:46 PM    mikeamondo   Posts: 17 Joined: 12/25/2004 Status: offline More later....  gotta go get a snake out of a friend's garage..... (in reply to mikeamondo) Post #: 6

RE: Cleaning a bottle with a label - 6/24/2009 9:32:46 PM    cyberdigger Posts: 12291 Joined: 11/29/2008 From: I 195 @ US 9, NJ USA Status: online Come on now, what matter is more urgent here?? I want PICS!!  (in reply to mikeamondo) Post #: 7

RE: Cleaning a bottle with a label - 6/24/2009 10:09:55 PM    mikeamondo   Posts: 17 Joined: 12/25/2004 Status: offline no snake... bummer.  The bottle shown above says Thos Moore... can't see anything else much.  This is the glass stopper which still has the cork on it.....  Attachment (1) (in reply to cyberdigger) Post #: 8

RE: Cleaning a bottle with a label - 6/24/2009 10:11:05 PM    mikeamondo   Posts: 17 Joined: 12/25/2004 Status: offline The next couple are the 1858 mason jar... Attachment (1) (in reply to mikeamondo) Post #: 9

RE: Cleaning a bottle with a label - 6/24/2009 10:12:47 PM    mikeamondo   Posts: 17 Joined: 12/25/2004 Status: offline 1858 Mason... Attachment (1) (in reply to mikeamondo) Post #: 10

RE: Cleaning a bottle with a label - 6/24/2009 10:14:01 PM    mikeamondo   Posts: 17 Joined: 12/25/2004 Status: offline Bottom of Mason Attachment (1) (in reply to mikeamondo) Post #: 11

RE: Cleaning a bottle with a label - 6/24/2009 10:15:14 PM    mikeamondo   Posts: 17 Joined: 12/25/2004 Status: offline Mason Ball Jar.... Attachment (1) (in reply to mikeamondo) Post #: 12

RE: Cleaning a bottle with a label - 6/24/2009 10:17:00 PM    mikeamondo   Posts: 17 Joined: 12/25/2004 Status: offline Other unknown bottle...  dark brown glass... label says Cass..er .... something like that... Attachment (1) (in reply to mikeamondo) Post #: 13

RE: Cleaning a bottle with a label - 6/24/2009 10:17:40 PM    cyberdigger Posts: 12291 Joined: 11/29/2008 From: I 195 @ US 9, NJ USA Status: online The Thos Moore is a whiskey.. .... (in reply to mikeamondo) Post #: 14

RE: Cleaning a bottle with a label - 6/24/2009 10:19:09 PM    cyberdigger Posts: 12291 Joined: 11/29/2008 From: I 195 @ US 9, NJ USA Status: online The Ball mason might be a midget... smaller mouth than the 1858?Uhh never mind.. looked again and saw either your thumb got smaller or the Ball is a quart! < Message edited by cyberdigger -- 6/24/2009 10:21:25 PM > (in reply to cyberdigger) Post #: 15

RE: Cleaning a bottle with a label - 6/24/2009 10:19:20 PM    mikeamondo   Posts: 17 Joined: 12/25/2004 Status: offline Jelly Jar?  This has a patent date on the bottom... tried to take a pic, which I'll post on the next message, but it's hard to read.  Says something like No. 72, Patented (some date) 1903.. and then a 2nd 1908 date.  Anyone have any idea what it is? Attachment (1) (in reply to mikeamondo) Post #: 16

RE: Cleaning a bottle with a label - 6/24/2009 10:20:29 PM    mikeamondo   Posts: 17 Joined: 12/25/2004 Status: offline Here's the bottom.... could be wrong on those dates... I left the bottle at the house. Attachment (1) (in reply to mikeamondo) Post #: 17

RE: Cleaning a bottle with a label - 6/24/2009 10:22:56 PM    lobeycat Posts: 6697 Joined: 9/8/2003 From: RED SOX Nation Status: offline Mike my brother....i think it would be OK to make those photos just a lil bigger. _____________________________ http://youtu.be/YkdOqdpSc0A makes a man cry it does lol. (in reply to mikeamondo) Post #: 18

RE: Cleaning a bottle with a label - 6/24/2009 10:23:54 PM    mikeamondo   Posts: 17 Joined: 12/25/2004 Status: offline So... those are pics....  also found 2 old hatpins (one very ornate), a National Biscuit Company box, countless cardboard inserts from milk bottle lids, a couple rusted pie pans and a shoe.  No idea how it all ended up in the floor boards!  Also... the bottles seem a couple decades older than the supposed age of the house!  Wondering if the house is older than 1925.  I forgot to shoot the Welch's bottle.  I'll be trying to clean up the labels in the coming days, if i can get a spare minute.....  Thanks! (in reply to mikeamondo) Post #: 19

RE: Cleaning a bottle with a label - 6/24/2009 10:27:07 PM    mikeamondo   Posts: 17 Joined: 12/25/2004 Status: offline Sorry about the little pics....  the uploader says 200k max... I reduced them in Photoshop till it said 189k....  maybe I could have left them bigger.... M (in reply to lobeycat) Post #: 20

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