Hi Bob! Thanks for your input. Perhaps you can straighten me out here. I think that the turn molded bottles would be aged between 1880 and 1900. Since the snap case replaced the pontil around the 1860's then the turn molded bottles wouldn't have pontil marks, yes? I'm assuming that they are...
The two on the left, I believe to be from turn molds. They have no embossing. The third is a Siegert Bitters Bottle. The forth has side seams up to the applied lip. They all have pontil marks. Besides sharing how to clean them out, if you know anything about the 3 mystery bottles, I'd...
I have a bottle that comes out of the Virgin Islands. It is filled to the rim with ocean floor debris that is hard as a rock. How can I get this bottle cleaned out?
Thanks for your help!