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    One of the nicest inks I've ever seen

    Those are sweet! The slanted/rhombus cobalt one and the milk glass are really neat. I haven't seen anything like either of them.
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    One of the nicest inks I've ever seen

    I don't think I know better than experts, and I don't consider myself one. I have a modest/moderate amount of knowledge about bottles, but I'm admittedly far from an expert. I just don't think every single person who spouts off on a forum is an expert either necessarily, no offense. That's why...
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    Super crude and early little bottle and (matching?) dosage/shot glass pontil pair. Possible 18th century or earlier Colonial?

    I'll try to get some better pics of both the bottle and glass tomorrow.
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    Driveway find

    Basic late 1800's BIM(blown in mold) bottle. Most likely a medicine bottle. Nice clean and attractive specimen. I'm no expert on insulators, but the era should not be too far off from the bottle. Really cool and interesting finds just digging a driveway, I normally need to visit an antique shop...
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    Super crude and early little bottle and (matching?) dosage/shot glass pontil pair. Possible 18th century or earlier Colonial?

    I'll try to take some closer and more accurate ones specifically of the base wear and crudeness. The neck of the bottle is striated/almost twisted like. These are super crude, but my photography skills might be a bit lacking.
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    Super crude and early little bottle and (matching?) dosage/shot glass pontil pair. Possible 18th century or earlier Colonial?

    I bought this sweet little pair of pontil items for $36 plus $10 shipping, so just under $50 all said and done. The bottle is about 2.75 inches. These are very blantantly and obviously legit, but hard for me to date exactly since the features could be present on stuff from the 1600's to like...
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    Is this a pontil?

    Yup, no pontil, BIM(blown in mold). Looks like the earlier side of BIM, so yeah, 1870's looks about right.
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    6 sided light olive green pontil

    I have to agree its a repro, because I've seen several of that same one for sale in the $20-$30 dollar price range. They are all a little too crisp and minty and the style of lip just isn't so consistent with what I know to be 18th and early 19th century pontil bottles(which usually tend to have...
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    One of the nicest inks I've ever seen

    Still 50/50 on this myself and by the consensus. I agree that the mold seems are very odd for a repro and actually accurate for early ABM/SABM. If it is a repro, they have some very odd and unconventional machinery in their factory or shop-as I've said, repros I've seen are either blown in mold...
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    One of the nicest inks I've ever seen

    Here is the website I used as a tool with all the mold and machine information, and dating techniques. Dating Page (sha.org) If anyone really wants, I can go and get direct quotes to back any of the following statements, but it's easier to summarize my findings. What I learned from this site is...
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    One of the nicest inks I've ever seen

    If you mean mine(if which authentic is an early 1905-1910 non-Owens small bore ABM)-then I didn't take the picture right. The base is not neat at all-it's uneven with a big convex bulge in one area and a little concave "pinch" with some sort of gash/open bubble/manufacturing scar. I'll try to...
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    One of the nicest inks I've ever seen

    Nice inks, everyone that has posted! Answer to a couple questions and an update: don't worry, I did not pay anything outrageous for this bottle. I paid probably twice what a good replica would fairly cost which is a bit of a bummer, but nothing crazy(in other words nowhere even close to what it...
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    One of the nicest inks I've ever seen

    Definitely not a wheaton. Why? 1.) Wheatons have "Wheaton New Jersey" on the bottom. Mine has a crude uneven bottom with no name or any embossing. 2.) The glass is too crude. I didn't capture this as best I could in the pics, but Wheaton replicas are much cleaner. 3.) The seams are all wrong...
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    One of the nicest inks I've ever seen

    Sometimes, when I have looked at at really hardcore collections and pictures of rare colored bottles, I'm just blown away, especially umbrella and similar looking inks. I wonder where they find bottles that nice, or if they bought them, how they could manage to get them without breaking the...
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    Just bought this sweet pontiled bottle. Seller says "milk fat tester"? Cologne? Sauce?

    My favor has shifted to medicine. I stumbled upon this example of a European medical phial type bottle from the very early 1800s. Much cruder and more colorful, but the shape is close enough to make it really plausible that mine's an American or European medical phial, could be as early as...
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