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williams & severance cobalt - 10/19/2007 3:48:39 PM    harp67   Posts: 10 Joined: 10/19/2007 From: San Jose Status: offline  is there any hope of repairing these rare sodas?  Attachment (1) Post #: 1

RE: williams & severance cobalt - 10/19/2007 4:05:36 PM    Jim Posts: 2268 Joined: 7/5/2005 From: Lewistown, PA Status: offline Yes. They could be professionally repaired to display nicely. I would look for a good replacement top from another broken example. If you can find one with a good color match, a professional "bottle doctor" could chop off the broken blob and replace it. I use epoxy for chips, but on the two worst ones, I would replace the tops. Your middle bottle doesn't look like it has too much missing. An epoxy chip repair would be possible on that one. ~Jim < Message edited by Jim -- 10/19/2007 4:06:15 PM > _____________________________ Preserving our buried history, one pit at a time. (in reply to harp67) Post #: 2

RE: williams & severance cobalt - 10/19/2007 4:32:07 PM    baltbottles   Posts: 829 Joined: 11/25/2002 From: Baltimore Maryland Status: offline My opinion is to try to keep as much of the orginal glass as posable and just rebuild the missing parts of the lip with colored resin. Chris _____________________________ Please visit my website at : www.geocities.com/baltbottles/index.html (in reply to Jim) Post #: 3

RE: williams & severance cobalt - 10/19/2007 6:29:18 PM    Lordbud   Posts: 217 Joined: 6/16/2005 From: San Jose Status: offline Cobalt Williams & Severance sodas are keepers. The middle example looks fine from that angle; does it have other issues? If I had dug those myself I think I would keep them as is, unless you are thinking of selling them. (in reply to baltbottles) Post #: 4

RE: williams & severance cobalt - 10/19/2007 6:36:01 PM    harp67   Posts: 10 Joined: 10/19/2007 From: San Jose Status: offline hi lordbud, hey im from san jose also. yeah the back of the top of the middle bottle has a little damage but its displayable. give me a call if your interested in buying 1 of them 408 859 5590 (in reply to Lordbud) Post #: 5

RE: williams & severance cobalt - 10/19/2007 9:20:12 PM    CALDIGR2   Posts: 452 Joined: 6/20/2005 Status: offline I've dug quite few of those over the years and definitely would not spend too much to make them what they aren't. In other words, for yourself to keep would be fine, but for resale they are still damaged goods and you probably couldn't recover your expenses for a pro repair. If you go ahead contact Marty Hall in Reno. He can make them look new again. _____________________________ Mike Dig no privy before it's time. (in reply to harp67) Post #: 6

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