The glass is "light bulb" thin and I've sorta always doubted if they could be extracted without destroying at least some of them. I'm surprised that me as a kid didn't break them just because I could. My Dad and I also wonder why they got put there? Just a 175 year old mystery I guess.
Story: In the late 1970's my Dad and I would go on metal detecting day trips around central Alabama where we lived, he would detect and me being a kid would dig targets, play or explore. This particular day we were at a road intersection in Pickens county at a dilapidated two story wood building...
Bostaurus, I currently live in Birmingham suburb of Pinson.
Some posts refer to "puffs" or "pontil puffs"? I did learn what a pontil was today by searching around before I posted here, but what is a puff?
I told my father about me posting the story and picture here and he said "you know, we...
I have kept this oddity in original condition for 33 years and I'm curious as to any info anyone may know, here is the story in a nutshell: My father enjoys the hobby of metal detecting, One day during the summer of 1976 when I was 8 years old, I tagged along with him during an outing in west...