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Found A Glass House dump - 12/29/2006 7:53:09 PM    zanes_antiques Posts: 2027 Joined: 9/3/2006 From: Steubenville, Ohio Status: offline I did some scratchin around up a hollow today and found where I believe The "Erskine Glass Factory" did some dumping. I haven't figured out if these are lamp globes or lightning rod balls yet. I also picked up a 25 pound cullet or potstone. I also got a few other chunks and pieces in other colors. Altogether I found over 40 of these globes and 6 Hobnailed thingymajiggers. Also a Steubenville sodawater and some plastic dishes. One of the chunks of glass looks like it was a dish mold of some type that filled completely up with glass, instead of being hollow like it should have been. Attachment (1) _____________________________ I buy, sell, barter, and beg....Zane Post #: 1

RE: Found A Glass House dump - 12/29/2006 7:54:44 PM    zanes_antiques Posts: 2027 Joined: 9/3/2006 From: Steubenville, Ohio Status: offline This is a solid chunk of glass with a pattern on the outside... any ideas on why? Attachment (1) _____________________________ I buy, sell, barter, and beg....Zane (in reply to zanes_antiques) Post #: 2

RE: Found A Glass House dump - 12/29/2006 8:42:26 PM    Ye Olde Prospector   Posts: 614 Joined: 1/23/2005 From: Bath, Maine Status: offline From what I have read the glassmakers sometimes filled metal molds with molten glass to heat the mold before beginning production. The solid piece was often just discarded. Cliff (in reply to zanes_antiques) Post #: 3

RE: Found A Glass House dump - 12/29/2006 9:34:35 PM    zanes_antiques Posts: 2027 Joined: 9/3/2006 From: Steubenville, Ohio Status: offline Does anyone have an Idea on the globes? Are they lightning rod balls or are they lamp parts. They appear to me to be rod balls from all the ones I've seen taking down houses and barns. I've just never seen any that look just like these. They have ground openings on both ends. _____________________________ I buy, sell, barter, and beg....Zane (in reply to zanes_antiques) Post #: 4

RE: Found A Glass House dump - 12/29/2006 11:16:48 PM    Yooper14 Posts: 313 Joined: 4/25/2005 From: Ohio Status: offline Rod balls would make sense to me.  Hey, this post reminds me of one of my revisits I need to get right on.  Last winter I found an old glass works factory dump too...I picked up a backpack full of slag, but haven't found a market for it.  I've been waiting for winter to go back and explore some more.  Maybe my luck will be as good as yours and I can find some actual pieces.  Of course, I COULD go out and dig, too, since the ground isn't even close to frozen! _____________________________ "Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." - Shaw Yooper (in reply to zanes_antiques) Post #: 5

RE: Found A Glass House dump - 12/29/2006 11:23:02 PM    KentOhio   Posts: 732 Joined: 9/13/2004 Status: offline What years was this factory in operation? What were they supposed to have made? (in reply to Yooper14) Post #: 6

RE: Found A Glass House dump - 12/29/2006 11:30:28 PM    capsoda Posts: 7930 Joined: 11/15/2005 From: Seminole,Alabama, USA Status: online Most rod balls that I have seen are solid. If the openings measure an inch and a half they are likely lamp parts. If so the are far more valuable that rod balls. _____________________________ Warren Diggin down in Dixie, USA Work is for people who don't dig bottles President, Panhandle Cruisers http://www.panhandlecruisers.org/ (in reply to KentOhio) Post #: 7

RE: Found A Glass House dump - 12/30/2006 2:19:59 AM    zanes_antiques Posts: 2027 Joined: 9/3/2006 From: Steubenville, Ohio Status: offline It appears one hole is 3/4" and the other is 5/8". The balls measure 4 3/16" from collar to collar. I would think because of the two slightly different sized openings that they may have slid down a taperred lightning rod. I need to get back there and get the rest of them because I didn't have enough room to carry them and the pot cullets all back the 1/2 mile to the car( the bucket weighed 50 lbs atleast!). I think there are still more balls there also.. Hey Josh and Shag I apologise I should have taken you over there to find the dump instead of wasting our time in the motherload yard. Who woulda guessed it woulda panned out this way. I'll put back a rodball for the both of ya though and promise ya a dig over there on your return trip. Attachment (1) _____________________________ I buy, sell, barter, and beg....Zane (in reply to capsoda) Post #: 8

RE: Found A Glass House dump - 12/30/2006 2:20:29 AM    zanes_antiques Posts: 2027 Joined: 9/3/2006 From: Steubenville, Ohio Status: offline top Attachment (1) _____________________________ I buy, sell, barter, and beg....Zane (in reply to zanes_antiques) Post #: 9

RE: Found A Glass House dump - 12/30/2006 9:45:15 AM    capsoda Posts: 7930 Joined: 11/15/2005 From: Seminole,Alabama, USA Status: online They are odd looking things. Odd pattern and colors too. Cool. _____________________________ Warren Diggin down in Dixie, USA Work is for people who don't dig bottles President, Panhandle Cruisers http://www.panhandlecruisers.org/ (in reply to zanes_antiques) Post #: 10

RE: Found A Glass House dump - 12/31/2006 11:58:29 PM    JOETHECROW   Posts: 393 Joined: 9/3/2005 From: Northwestern Pa. Status: offline Not to contest ole' cap,...but those are almost certainly lightning rod balls,...way cool colors as well....I've never found the likes of those in a glass factory dump...great finds Zane...      Congrats.       Joe (in reply to capsoda) Post #: 11

RE: Found A Glass House dump - 1/1/2007 2:18:35 AM    zanes_antiques Posts: 2027 Joined: 9/3/2006 From: Steubenville, Ohio Status: offline Hey joe, I must not be too far from you. You're in in western Pa., so come on down and dig! I'm lonely. _____________________________ I buy, sell, barter, and beg....Zane (in reply to JOETHECROW) Post #: 12

RE: Found A Glass House dump - 1/1/2007 4:17:10 PM    swizzle   Posts: 1325 Joined: 3/2/2005 From: Upstate NY Status: offline Those are the coolest...uh..well....balls that I've ever seen. Congrats on some awesome digs Zane. You should change your name to ZaneDigMaster or something like that. Swizzle (in reply to zanes_antiques) Post #: 13

RE: Found A Glass House dump - 1/1/2007 5:12:51 PM    dewdog   Posts: 164 Joined: 9/29/2006 From: Kingston, Tenn Status: offline Whatever they are--I'd like to have one!!  Are you going to sell any of them??...........mike (in reply to swizzle) Post #: 14

RE: Found A Glass House dump - 1/1/2007 5:27:28 PM    mikmis   Posts: 379 Joined: 11/16/2006 Status: offline wow those are realy cool!!!!!!!! .do you have any idea how old they are ? is that glass factory still in operation? (in reply to zanes_antiques) Post #: 15

RE: Found A Glass House dump - 1/1/2007 6:20:44 PM    JGUIS   Posts: 1705 Joined: 3/18/2006 From: New Lexington, OH Status: offline Need the wagon? _____________________________ A pipe gives a wise man time to think, and gives a fool something to stick in his mouth. (in reply to zanes_antiques) Post #: 16

RE: Found A Glass House dump - 1/1/2007 8:44:28 PM    JOETHECROW   Posts: 393 Joined: 9/3/2005 From: Northwestern Pa. Status: offline Hey ZANE....I'd be interested some weekend, to dig...especially if the weather stays open like this.....I'm near NY state line (Bradford PA) quote: ORIGINAL: zanes_antiques Hey joe, I must not be too far from you. You're in in western Pa., so come on down and dig! I'm lonely. (in reply to zanes_antiques) Post #: 17

RE: Found A Glass House dump - 1/1/2007 9:39:28 PM    zanes_antiques Posts: 2027 Joined: 9/3/2006 From: Steubenville, Ohio Status: offline Hey Dewdog,   Yeah, I'm going to seel all but a few. I'm just not sure what kind of a price to put on them. Any idea what one might be worth to you? I'm sure we can work something out. I'm pretty sure what glass house they came from but I don't want to advertise it here until I get the rest of the dump dug. Nothing personal but I've heard of a few instances where people have utilized info on here to go behind other people.   Joe, I'm free right now atleast until the 15th if you want to come down and scratch around. _____________________________ I buy, sell, barter, and beg....Zane (in reply to JOETHECROW) Post #: 18

RE: Found A Glass House dump - 1/1/2007 9:52:20 PM    dewdog   Posts: 164 Joined: 9/29/2006 From: Kingston, Tenn Status: offline Hey Zane, Have no idea what they are worth--sure don't blame you for not saying where you are getting them. I guess it would be according to how many you come up with as to what they are worth. Give me a price and I can take it or leave it....mike (in reply to zanes_antiques) Post #: 19

RE: Found A Glass House dump - 1/5/2007 5:04:25 PM    zanes_antiques Posts: 2027 Joined: 9/3/2006 From: Steubenville, Ohio Status: offline Here's a pic of one of the blue ones. Attachment (1) _____________________________ I buy, sell, barter, and beg....Zane (in reply to dewdog) Post #: 20

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