Joe, try wet sanding with a #400-600 then 800 silicon carbide paper (available at auto parts store),then polish in machine , works good on small lip chips also...... Taz
Thanks all! Been out of town..... I had a great birthday and holiday weekend. I dug a sweet 61 ct topaz in New Hampshire and have been polishing the bottle probe here in the Maine dirt..... nothing good to brag about yet though! Taz
Nice bottle! You probally wont believe this, but I dug this one over at the "Maplewood" 1800's resort dump in Bethlaham, NH several weeks ago (The Mt Washington hotel is right up the road) bet they are the same type bottle,I suspected it was french... mine is quite crude with a shear top string...
Nice bottle! How is this for a theory..... This is the basis of the optical band gap in a photonic crystal, of which opal is the best known natural example. In addition, microfractures may be filled with secondary silica and form thin lamellae inside the opal during solidification. The term...
Hi Rick, GP and all...... Hmmmm a today's fair market price ? 25-35 clams. Nice ink but fairly common. Ink's volume #4 by J. Odell has a similar labeled example for 100 dollars but it is the 1865 patent example that French, bought up from Pierce before improving the bottle with a flat base. Taz
Here is the old North Groton, N.H. church bell. I had the honor of building the foundation for it behind the historical society building and then gave a talk on early glass of N.H.[:)] Taz
Tom! More happiness in given then receiveing ya know! Glad you guys had a good time... I will be over this week to find the pontils you missed! [sm=lol.gif] Taz
Them pane's consume 999 times there own weight in xcess reality! Ouch found some back in the late 60's...Good place to leave them,,,,,[sm=lol.gif] My face still hurts from laughing...