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    Free-Blown - Age?

    By "heel" you mean the horizontal "ring" around the bottle, immediately above the base, correct? I think I get it. Still riding the learning curve *sigh* Thanks again!
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    Funny mark on ink...Wha?

    Thanks! Wow, that's so cool that you just looked at my scan and knew what it was. I'm so impressed! I searched the BLM bottle site for "dowel" and "vent" but couldn't find any reference to that process (I could just be missing it). I'd really love to know how that works and, hopefully...
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    Free-Blown - Age?

    Thanks GuntherHess. Y'know, I wondered about that. But isn't a paste mold still "considered" free-blown, as opposed to BIM? Either way, I'm still happy to have it. I tend to agree with cyberdigger, that it's a turn of the century bottle. I'd like to think so anyway. It's the only one...
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    Free-Blown - Age?

    Here's the base.
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    Free-Blown - Age?

    I think I have a free-blown beer or soda bottle from Europe. No seams, heavier at the bottom, not completely symmetrical. The slanted straw marks travel up into the lip. Lip has an open bubble or a large chip. No pontil scar on the base, just a bump and some whittling. It doesn't sit...
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    Funny mark on ink...Wha?

    Rubbing follows. The first row is four of one side, the second row is four of the other side. It kind of looks like my little bottle has ringworm. The fact that they appear on both sides of the bottle makes me think it was part of the process, as in snap case marks. Interesting, I don't...
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    Funny mark on ink...Wha?

    Here's the other side (though I'm not sure you could tell the difference). I think what I'm managing to pick up in the photo is the mark on the opposite side through the bottle.
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    Funny mark on ink...Wha?

    I have this little flask that I was told is a penny ink from Great Britain. It has some funny marks on both sides that I can't identify. Could be weird mold impressions, or vent marks, or tool marks...? I tried to capture them in photos, not easy. They are hole-punch sized marks at the...
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    Anyone digging in San Diego County?

    I'm new at this, and interested in finding someone who digs in the San Diego County area. Anyone out there I can chat with?
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    Ink or Drugs?

    Ha, yeah, t'would be interesting, but I'm pretty sure the black inky-looking stuff I cleaned out of it was actually ink. There's nothing left in it except for the blackish stain. And I didn't feel any different cleaning that one than I did with the four or five inks I cleaned just before that...
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    Ink or Drugs?

    'Nother photo:
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    Ink or Drugs?

    I have this little bottle pictured below (I hope): It's a clear octagonal bottle with a screw cap that says SPOFA embossed on the side, and also incised into the cap. When I got it, it had dried up ink in it, which I cleaned out, and which left stains on the inside of the bottle. It...
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    The Fry Art Co. New York

    I don't have a photo, but I have an ink like the one in Covill's book that has "The Fry Art Co. New York" embossed on it. It's clear, 1-5/16 square by 2-5/8 tall. There doesn’t seem to be much info on the ‘net about this company. All I can gather is that the company existed from the...
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