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The damnable subtleties of amber - 6/12/2005 10:07:18 AM    amblypygi Posts: 454 Joined: 4/6/2004 From: Western Massachusetts Status: offline The recent discussion of the SA Allen's bottle inspired me to post this because I have one I dug last year and the color drives me crazy. When you photograph it, it looks amber, but when you hold it in your hands it just "not quite" plain old amber. It's a really cool color but it can't be captured in a picture (see the photo I uploaded with a "normal" amber medicine from the same dump). I think there is just a hint of green, but not enough to call it green. Anyway, just thought I'd see if anyone else has "troublesome amber" bottles they'd care to post about Sean Picture reduced in size - please see Help - Using the Forum ---> Uploading a Picture - Admin Attachment (1) < Message edited by Admin -- 6/13/2005 2:12:40 AM > Post #: 1

RE: The damnable subtleties of amber - 6/12/2005 11:04:46 AM    bearswede Posts: 2912 Joined: 9/28/2004 From: western mass Status: offline That's a nice bottle, Sean... I might call that tobacco amber, a term that is frequently used for mid to post-mid 19th century historical flasks... I think a bottle that looks that good IS that good!!!Ron (in reply to amblypygi) Post #: 2

RE: The damnable subtleties of amber - 6/12/2005 11:10:03 AM    lobeycat Posts: 4026 Joined: 9/8/2003 From: RED SOX Nation Status: offline You're right Sean the shades of amber are endless. All this yammering about the Allen's likewise inspired me to track mine down. Found it in a box of odds and end covered in dust and cobwebs. I took pics in opposite windows east and west. The lip on my Mrs. S. A. Allens is a bit different English I think. Just adding my two cents Lobes. Attachment (1) (in reply to amblypygi) Post #: 3

RE: The damnable subtleties of amber - 6/12/2005 1:51:56 PM    amblypygi Posts: 454 Joined: 4/6/2004 From: Western Massachusetts Status: offline These are two of my favorite amber bottles, a yellow-amber seamside flask from Maine, and a very light orange-amber tonic from Illinois. Oh, and Swede: you know your ambers! Tobacco-amber is exactly what several other people have described that Allen's bottle as, so I guess that's what it is. Sean Attachment (1) (in reply to amblypygi) Post #: 4

RE: The damnable subtleties of amber - 6/12/2005 1:53:44 PM    amblypygi Posts: 454 Joined: 4/6/2004 From: Western Massachusetts Status: offline Lobey, your SA Allen's looks to have a bit-o-green in it too, that's a nice bottle. Sean (in reply to amblypygi) Post #: 5

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