Hello-
I'm new to the forum (or at least haven't posted in years).
I've found a bottle in the unfinished portion of my attic, under the large roof rafters at the back of the house. I was checking for a leak, and put my hand on the bottle in the accompanying photos. Since this house was...
Today I decided to give the N. Wood bottle a "go" cleaning-wise with the garnered input from this board.
Rather than have the bottle tumbled since isn't a dug bottle I decided to use acetone to liquify the crystalized contents. It worked like a charm. All the residue immediately liquified...
First off, I'm happy to have located this website and also I'm fairly new to the "world of old bottles" but have always had a certain fascination with early quality bottles.
Just tonight I won a rather interesting bottle on eBay.
It looks to be circa 1840 and is pontiled and written on...