These are substantially older, European I believe. Still quite impressive. With black glass, one should not be able to readily see the light come though easily. The color always remains blackish more so.
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The deterioration of that St. John’s bottle from being underground is beautiful. Something that speaks for its age. Nice piece even if common. Great rusticity to it.
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How cool is that, so early reuse as a daily bottle to carry in like a lunch box. So, I don’t really understand hutch bottles. How was it sealed with the wire in the bottle . Seems when I dug this type a long time ago, there was “no getting” that substantial “wire” out of the bottle.
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I have about 20 black glass thee piece mold with hella lot of whittle marks (chattering from cold molds and steam is what I have been told causes whittle marks). Mine are very rustic and I thought they had to be 1860’s but maybe earlier? I need to dig those out, I used to have them out all the...
Brent Little meet Tim Little, been digging since I was 9, I’m 65 now. I grew up in rural Nevada, lots of places to dig and in fact one of the best was in my own back yard. Our back yard bordered the original Chinatown in Winnemucca Nevada. A city earth scraper doing some prep for a new fire dept...
Man what a beauty- to me that’s the jackpot. Like finding a precious opal. Only time and the earth can produce that. How lucky you are[emoji1]
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