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Cobalt shard turtle - 2/6/2010 2:17:07 PM    #1twin   Posts: 751 Joined: 5/25/2006 From: Biloxi Ms Status: offline This is my biggest shard of cobalt glass and the Turtle needed a shell I don't know if big shards of glass are worth much but they look good in gardens , aquariums, etc. I dig up buckets of this stuff in a local dump. Thanks for looking,  Marvin Attachment (1) Post #: 1

RE: Cobalt shard turtle - 2/6/2010 4:07:43 PM    lexdigger   Posts: 1770 Joined: 5/31/2005 From: Lexington, Ky. Status: offline Just look up Slag Glass on ebay. You'd be surprised what some of them are worth! It's glass that was used to make marbles, etc. (in reply to #1twin) Post #: 2

RE: Cobalt shard turtle - 2/6/2010 4:40:40 PM    Raider2152   Posts: 162 Joined: 12/18/2009 Status: offline It almost looks like furnace rock neat though _____________________________ Lets go find some glass!!!!!!!!! (in reply to lexdigger) Post #: 3

RE: Cobalt shard turtle - 2/6/2010 6:28:19 PM    tigue710 Posts: 4140 Joined: 7/11/2007 From: connecticut - nor cal Status: offline sweet turtle! _____________________________ •={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•= (in reply to Raider2152) Post #: 4

RE: Cobalt shard turtle - 2/6/2010 6:32:51 PM    GuntherHess Posts: 11470 Joined: 12/13/2004 From: Frederick Maryland Status: offline Hey Tique you doing the bottle thing again? _____________________________ FREE Online Medicine Guide - http://www.antiquemedicines.com/MedicineNexus/Nexus.htm Web Site - http://antiquemedicines.com Email : mknapp@antiquemedicines.com (in reply to tigue710) Post #: 5

RE: Cobalt shard turtle - 2/6/2010 7:23:18 PM    #1twin   Posts: 751 Joined: 5/25/2006 From: Biloxi Ms Status: offline Thanks for the heads up on the slag glass Chris, and thank you all for your comments and replies.  We had a MOM plant here, which explains the cobalt glass in a 40's-60's dump. Maybe I can sell some to help pay the IRS this year  Best of luck, to all, on your next dig.            Marvin  < Message edited by #1twin -- 2/6/2010 7:24:38 PM > (in reply to lexdigger) Post #: 6

RE: Cobalt shard turtle - 2/6/2010 9:52:33 PM    downeastdigger Posts: 3160 Joined: 8/22/2005 From: Crawling through the mud and briars of Eliot Maine Status: offline HA got a good chuckle out of me :) funny _____________________________ Bram Get busy diggin, or get busy dyin' These photos show why you can never go bottle digging in New England, and come home "empty" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxpURSe0BBk&feature=related (in reply to #1twin) Post #: 7

RE: Cobalt shard turtle - 2/7/2010 12:01:45 AM    #1twin   Posts: 751 Joined: 5/25/2006 From: Biloxi Ms Status: offline Thanks Bram. I thought it was pretty funny too, when the thought of where could I put that big chunk of slag to good use came up. Thanks for look'n,    Marvin (in reply to downeastdigger) Post #: 8

RE: Cobalt shard turtle - 2/7/2010 12:39:37 AM    CanYaDigIt Posts: 1004 Joined: 2/5/2009 From: Back In Sac, CA Status: offline I like it.   _____________________________ Comes a time when the blind man takes your hand, says "Don't you see" (in reply to #1twin) Post #: 9

RE: Cobalt shard turtle - 2/7/2010 2:11:30 AM    Plumbata Posts: 1657 Joined: 12/4/2007 Status: offline Could knap some pretty wicked looking arrowheads using that stuff. Might be a selling point should you try to sell it on the bay? _____________________________ Alterius non sit qui suus esse potest. Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper. - Thomas Jefferson (in reply to CanYaDigIt) Post #: 10

RE: Cobalt shard turtle - 2/8/2010 10:59:59 AM    tigue710 Posts: 4140 Joined: 7/11/2007 From: connecticut - nor cal Status: offline reckon i am...  couldnt stay away forever... _____________________________ •={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•= (in reply to GuntherHess) Post #: 11

RE: Cobalt shard turtle - 2/8/2010 11:33:00 AM    GuntherHess Posts: 11470 Joined: 12/13/2004 From: Frederick Maryland Status: offline good to see you back. Going to do your website thing anymore? _____________________________ FREE Online Medicine Guide - http://www.antiquemedicines.com/MedicineNexus/Nexus.htm Web Site - http://antiquemedicines.com Email : mknapp@antiquemedicines.com (in reply to tigue710) Post #: 12

RE: Cobalt shard turtle - 2/8/2010 1:30:05 PM    botlenut Posts: 466 Joined: 9/6/2007 From: Hadley, New York Status: offline           I've lived outside of Saratoga Springs for almost 20 yrs. now. Back when I first got into digging about 10 yrs ago, You could still go to the intersection of Congress, and Empire avenues, which is one of the later locations that they blew those beautiful Congressville Green Spring Waters. It was all woods out in back, and we used to pick through piles of shards, tops, bases, and broken quarts, and pints. Never found anything intact, and never heard of anyone else finding anything, but I did carry home a few fist sized hunks of Slag Glass from there. Heres a couple pics of it. There were truckloads of it, I guess I should have kept more in hindsite. Sometimes when I drive by the site I wonder to myself if the people that live in the 300,000 dollar house right in the Glass Factory footprint have any clue of the history of that property. You would think if they did, they would have to collect Spring Waters. Attachment (1) _____________________________ Collector of Half Pint Mineral Waters, Pontiled Colognes, Odd Colored Violin Bottles, as well as whatever I like at the time. (in reply to GuntherHess) Post #: 13

RE: Cobalt shard turtle - 2/8/2010 1:30:49 PM    botlenut Posts: 466 Joined: 9/6/2007 From: Hadley, New York Status: offline       another angle. Attachment (1) _____________________________ Collector of Half Pint Mineral Waters, Pontiled Colognes, Odd Colored Violin Bottles, as well as whatever I like at the time. (in reply to botlenut) Post #: 14

RE: Cobalt shard turtle - 2/8/2010 3:30:26 PM    lexdigger   Posts: 1770 Joined: 5/31/2005 From: Lexington, Ky. Status: offline I dug mine back when I first got into digging bottles. Didn't know What it was, but thought it was wild and kept it. I also kept some old window glass that is "knapped" into small squares and really thick. I was gonna have my friend make me an arrowhead outta this one, but then I got into marlbes and decided to keep it as a go with. Glad I did cause it's the Best one I've dug! Attachment (1) < Message edited by lexdigger -- 2/8/2010 3:32:54 PM > (in reply to botlenut) Post #: 15

RE: Cobalt shard turtle - 2/8/2010 10:58:10 PM    JOETHECROW Posts: 9804 Joined: 9/3/2005 From: Northwestern Pa. (Near scenic Lake Perfidy) Status: offline quote: ORIGINAL: tigue710 reckon i am...  couldnt stay away forever... Glad to see you back Tigue... _____________________________ Joe ``````````````````````````````````` In the woods we return to reason and faith. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooTyuRd9zSg&feature=related (in reply to tigue710) Post #: 16

RE: Cobalt shard turtle - 2/9/2010 9:55:44 PM    cobaltbot Posts: 3878 Joined: 4/7/2006 From: Delta, PA Status: offline Nice cobalt and green slag, wish I could find some of that.  Chris,  I think your knapped thick squares were from old car lanterns, I've found some of those.  Your slag looks like the pieces I've found where an old iron furnace was but yours might be different, anyway I'd like to know the story behind what the furnace slag is? Here's a piece I dug from one of my TOC B&O RR dumps, I would like to know why it was there? Attachment (1) _____________________________ My tombstone will read: He went out for a walk and never came back.... (in reply to JOETHECROW) Post #: 17

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