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Bottle Repair

can you email me the products used. cwdigger10@yahoo.com i have quite a few favorite pontil bottles with minor chips
- Basil.W.Duke
- Post #14
- Nov 4, 2019
- Forum: Cleaning and Repairing
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how rare is a williamson wva 1915 coke....worth?

I'm not sure where people are getting this Brown Coke never said Brown hobble skirt bottle
- Basil.W.Duke
- Post #7
- Aug 8, 2019
- Forum: Digging and Finding
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how rare is a williamson wva 1915 coke....worth?

It is a standard aqua hobble skirt 1915 bottle
- Basil.W.Duke
- Post #5
- Aug 8, 2019
- Forum: Digging and Finding
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how rare is a williamson wva 1915 coke....worth?

hobbleskirt
- Basil.W.Duke
- Post #3
- Aug 8, 2019
- Forum: Digging and Finding
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how rare is a williamson wva 1915 coke....worth?

found three probally more there plus 2 brown cokes
- Basil.W.Duke
- Thread
- Aug 7, 2019
- Replies: 9
- Forum: Digging and Finding
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pontiled stopper bottle update

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- Basil.W.Duke
- Post #7
- Sep 24, 2018
- Forum: Digging and Finding
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pontiled stopper bottle update

it is the shell to the right of the stopper
- Basil.W.Duke
- Post #5
- Sep 23, 2018
- Forum: Digging and Finding
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pontiled stopper bottle update

the 32 pound boreman in the picture had dry powder in it when i drilled it. Kept the powder in the can. it was the only shell i dug with dry powder
- Basil.W.Duke
- Post #4
- Sep 23, 2018
- Forum: Digging and Finding
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pontiled stopper bottle update

I have tried everything in the book to remove the stopper from this bottle for days including acid, wd40 hot water etc. About 15 minutes ago i was looking at it and held the top in my coffee for a minute.....the gently tapped the stopper with a butter knife.......POP!!!!!!!!! and the stopper...
- Basil.W.Duke
- Thread
- Sep 22, 2018
- Replies: 6
- Forum: Digging and Finding
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cobalt soda question

I got that other blue ponteled cobalt soda in trade from the privy a few months ago and it has a flake crack type chip on the front all the glasses there but it's like a chip on your windshield. Is there a repair that you can do to make the harshness of the crack of the of the chip go away...
- Basil.W.Duke
- Thread
- Sep 14, 2018
- Replies: 0
- Forum: Digging and Finding
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What is the best piece of intact advertsing you have found while bottle digging?

hope this counts
- Basil.W.Duke
- Post #8
- Sep 11, 2018
- Forum: Digging and Finding
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big pic with my bottle digging buddies...its like christmas

no sir i only have 1
- Basil.W.Duke
- Post #20
- Sep 6, 2018
- Forum: Digging and Finding
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big pic with my bottle digging buddies...its like christmas

thanks i did not know that i know fery little of worth of relics and bottles i dig....but i found very little on the net on it
- Basil.W.Duke
- Post #17
- Sep 5, 2018
- Forum: Digging and Finding
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question about nremoving stopper on this pontil bottle

one of the recently dug bottles has a stuck glass stopper. Any advice on freeing it? Clear glass with brown muck inside
- Basil.W.Duke
- Thread
- Sep 4, 2018
- Replies: 4
- Forum: Digging and Finding
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big pic with my bottle digging buddies...its like christmas

here are the rest i find a few of there type bottles what are they. They come out of the pontil age with thin flaired lips and mirror flat bottoms I foegot one of the sodas as it was soaking to clean off some crustations here are the embossed sodas A ,msmooth bases verhage cincinnati...
- Basil.W.Duke
- Post #13
- Aug 31, 2018
- Forum: Digging and Finding