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    Help for a lovely lady, please.

    A friend of mine is a wonderful, warm, lovely lady. Life has given her some burdens that she did not count on in anticipation of her "golden years." She has a bottle that was given her by a relative who is no longer in her life. It means a great deal to her. Furthermore, she is fascinated by its...
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    Psychodelilactochron Plus

    You all will remember (surely you couldn't forget!) my tumbler constructed from a variable-speed reversable DC gearmoter and a milk crate. My best friend gave me the motor and controller and faced and drilled a pulley for a flange to mount the milk crate. Here it is, for anyone who may have...
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    Is this a reproduction?

    http://cgi.ebay.com/Pt-GIX-11-SCROLL-Flask-Blue-Aqua-Mint-Crude-Pontil_W0QQitemZ250606528342QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item3a59502756 Or not?
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    A little help?

    C'mon folks! Does anyone know anything about this bottle? Has anyone ever seen one before? Mystery bottle? Thanks, Dave
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    Interesting two ways

    Today in a small town antique shop I bought the bottle illustrated below. It is BIM with a tooled lip. The embossing says INSTITUTO/RAVETLLAT-PLA/BARCELONA. I did a Google and found this: Google translated from Spanish Apparently this bottle held a tuberculosis "cure" that arose from an...
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    Any chemists here? Crazy idea?

    It seems to me that the absolutely ideal (functionally, if not practically) tumbling media would be lead pellets. The lead is soft enough that the grit would actually get stuck into the pellets. (In gem cutting, sometimes lead-topped flat laps are used - the lap is charged by putting grit on it...
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    cigar bottle

    A while back we saw a bottle shaped (and embossed) like a cigar. Later, though I can't find it now, I thought I saw similar in the pics from the Corning Glass Museum. This got me to thinking about it, so I went back to the antique mall and (after searching the entire place) found the bottle. It...
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    Tumbler parts, motors, etc.

    I mentioned in another thread Surplus Center. If you like to build stuff, you should definitely check out www.surpluscenter.com (and get on their mailing list - great catalog!) They carry motors, bearings, and ALL kinds of other stuff at great prices. I find the print catalog great entertainment...
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    Great site for books!!

    For books on any subject, it would be hard to beat abebooks.com. I have been ordering books (some rare, some not) from them for several years and have found them to be super to do business with. They don't actually have the books; they have arrangements with booksellers all over the country. You...
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    Another "free" tumbler

    This one is free if you happen to have a gearmotor. My bud gave me a 1/4 HP, 90 VDC, variable-speed gearmotor and control. It will turn 0-90 rpm with lots of torque and is reversable. My friend faced one side of the pulley and drilled holes in the arms, close to the rim. We happened to have a...
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    Free Tumbler

    I posed, as an intellectual exercise, the problem of building a tumbler from junk in my garage (without spending any money) to my old friend Professor Sneed Hern, scholar, explorer, raconteur, elderly but active. He came up with this:
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    Found in N. Dakota!!???

    Sorry for the bad first pic. As I hope you will see, this flask has a crowned lion rampant, wielding an axe. Since the area in which I found this was widely settled by Norwegians (and some other Scandanavians,) perhaps this is Old World??? What a thrill to find this, and what a heartbreak to...
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    Superbowl

    I guess a lot of you will be watching the Superbowl tomorrow. Not us. We don't particularly care about any sports, let alone bowling. Or is the Superbowl baseball? If so, why don't they call it the Basebowl? [sm=lol.gif]
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    C'mon friends...

    I posted in Scams and Frauds asking about fake pontils. 34 people have read the post and no one tells me whether they have encountered this or not. C'mon, you don't have to be an authority to have noticed fake pontils. Enquiring minds want to know!!!
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    Some of our artifacts & shtuff

    Nearly all this stuff has stories that go with it, but, for the most part, I'll spare you. The cobble hammer on the left is Anasazi (ancestral Puebloan is, I believe, the PC term now) from S.W. Colorado. The grooved club head is Mogollon (contemporaneous to Anasazi) from west central New...
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    Fake pontils

    In area antique malls I have seen obvious snap case bottles with glass tubing fused to the bottom, then broken off, simulating (very, very badly) a blowpipe pontil. The deception is so obvious to anyone with any experience, but I could see someone just starting out fall for it. Is this common...
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    Collection sees light after 32 years!

    "Big day tomorrow" has arrived and gone. Here are some pics of most of our bottles:
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    H.E. Wilson's hair products

    Anyone have a mint Wilson hair product bottle? I believe some products were sold under the name "Mrs. Wilson's", others under "H.E. Wilson's" I would be interested in purchase or trade for a mint (or very good) example. Thanks, Dave
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    Big day tomorrow!

    We packed away our collection in 1978 when we moved to this house. All but about 100 bottles have been crated in the (low) attic over the garage ever since. Today I got down (down a ladder) all the bottles and moved them into my bedroom (upstairs) for unpacking. Boy, how easy that last...
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    Interesting bottle-related article

    This is an interesting article about a 19th Century black female entrepreneur (and yes, smart @@s, I did have to look up the spelling.) I wouldn't mind having one of the bottles to go along with the article. Wilson Hair Regenerator

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