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X-mas display case... - 1/9/2008 5:31:57 PM    southern Maine diver Posts: 1436 Joined: 8/13/2005 From: South Berwick, Maine USA Status: offline Well, I finally got a nice display case to start showing some of my bottles. My wife got it for me for Christmas and now, I have been taking some bottles out of the boxes and putting them into the case.  I used to have them all over the place, on shelves, over the top of the kitchen cabinets, on the window sills... my wife couldn't stand it anymore, taking the bottles down to dust them... I used to have a couple hundred on display... well now I have enough room to display twenty five or thirty of them so I think I'll try to arrange them by style/type... Here's what it looks like.. Attachment (1) Post #: 1

RE: X-mas display case... - 1/9/2008 5:33:29 PM    rlo   Posts: 321 Joined: 12/9/2007 From: the boot heel Status: offline what is the vessel on the bottom shelf? (in reply to southern Maine diver) Post #: 2

RE: X-mas display case... - 1/9/2008 5:33:42 PM    southern Maine diver Posts: 1436 Joined: 8/13/2005 From: South Berwick, Maine USA Status: offline So far I put the Iberian Olive Jar on the bottom shelf... I'll put some other crock ginger beers down here as well.. One shelf for some inks... Attachment (1) (in reply to southern Maine diver) Post #: 3

RE: X-mas display case... - 1/9/2008 5:34:40 PM    southern Maine diver Posts: 1436 Joined: 8/13/2005 From: South Berwick, Maine USA Status: offline One shelf for some Stoddard flasks... Attachment (1) (in reply to southern Maine diver) Post #: 4

RE: X-mas display case... - 1/9/2008 5:37:50 PM    rlo   Posts: 321 Joined: 12/9/2007 From: the boot heel Status: offline wow! very nice!  iberian olive ? from what date? (in reply to southern Maine diver) Post #: 5

RE: X-mas display case... - 1/9/2008 5:39:07 PM    southern Maine diver Posts: 1436 Joined: 8/13/2005 From: South Berwick, Maine USA Status: offline And another shelf for some snuff jars and a blacking bottle...  I'll mix in some good meds when I find them in the boxes I go through and maybe throw in a couple of sodas or US Navy Pepper and Mustard bottles...  Sure is fun moving these things around...  Enjoy.. Wayne Attachment (1) (in reply to southern Maine diver) Post #: 6

RE: X-mas display case... - 1/9/2008 5:41:28 PM    bottle109 Posts: 45 Joined: 2/24/2006 From: West Bridgewater, Mass Status: offline I like the style of the display case, gives you a full view. (in reply to rlo) Post #: 7

RE: X-mas display case... - 1/9/2008 5:43:45 PM    southern Maine diver Posts: 1436 Joined: 8/13/2005 From: South Berwick, Maine USA Status: offline Hey Becca... The vessel on the bottom shelf is an Iberian Olive Jar.  I found it about three years ago in 55' of water here in the Piscatqua River which runs along the Maine/NH border.  It dates from between 1675 to 1720... It is my oldest piece so far.  It was used for the storage of olives, olive oil and other food stuffs being shipped from Spain and the Iberian Penninsula near the Mediterranean.  Kinda neat to find something like this intact.  This was the time when Native American Indians were attacking the early colonists... I love history.. Wayne Attachment (1) (in reply to southern Maine diver) Post #: 8

RE: X-mas display case... - 1/9/2008 5:46:47 PM    rlo   Posts: 321 Joined: 12/9/2007 From: the boot heel Status: offline what a find!  I think I should take up diving! (in reply to southern Maine diver) Post #: 9

RE: X-mas display case... - 1/9/2008 7:15:42 PM    Gunsmoke47 Posts: 1159 Joined: 12/29/2003 From: TEXAS Status: offline Way too cool Wayne! Great case for some great bottles! Smoke (in reply to rlo) Post #: 10

RE: X-mas display case... - 1/9/2008 7:47:40 PM    cobaltbot Posts: 1595 Joined: 4/7/2006 From: Delta, PA Status: online I agree with smoke, those are some smokin' bottles and a durn fine display case- nice! _____________________________ My tombstone will read: He went out for a walk and never came back.... (in reply to Gunsmoke47) Post #: 11

RE: X-mas display case... - 1/10/2008 1:48:44 AM    capsoda Posts: 7703 Joined: 11/15/2005 From: Seminole,Alabama, USA Status: offline Great cabnet Wayne. Tell Pammy that I said she done good. _____________________________ 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 cobaltbot) Post #: 12

RE: X-mas display case... - 1/10/2008 2:08:34 AM    L C   Posts: 1506 Joined: 3/17/2007 From: Ohio Status: offline I bought one of those cabinets a few years back to display my bottles in. Once it was brought in the house and set into place, my Misses decided that her Hull Pottery would look much better in it than my bottles, lost out on that deal. Wayne, save a shelf for me to put some of mine on ! (in reply to capsoda) Post #: 13

RE: X-mas display case... - 1/10/2008 7:11:09 AM    idigjars Posts: 1284 Joined: 12/24/2004 From: Michigan Status: offline Great looking display Wayne!  I especially like the light yellow/olive looking umbrella ink, NICE!   Well.........ALL your stuff looks nice and the cabinet looks great too.  Congrats!  Paul (in reply to L C) Post #: 14

RE: X-mas display case... - 1/11/2008 12:05:58 PM    southern Maine diver Posts: 1436 Joined: 8/13/2005 From: South Berwick, Maine USA Status: offline Hi Paul... Yeah, that yellow umbrella ink with a nice open pontil, was found by my oldest son Ryan, in his first dig of an old foundation dump that he and his brother Nathan found.  There was a lot of nice stuff that came out of that hole including a nice rare Stoddard open pontil Portland, Maine med... sure wish they would get out and do some more diggin. Wayne (in reply to idigjars) Post #: 15

RE: X-mas display case... - 1/11/2008 10:15:13 PM    tigue710 Posts: 1646 Joined: 7/11/2007 From: connecticut Status: offline very nice display!  Man I want to learn how to dive! _____________________________ aint no bottles in there.... (in reply to southern Maine diver) Post #: 16

RE: X-mas display case... - 1/12/2008 7:56:49 AM    idigjars Posts: 1284 Joined: 12/24/2004 From: Michigan Status: offline Wayne that is cool.  Your boys are very lucky in all respects!  Paul (in reply to tigue710) Post #: 17

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