If a bottle *was* coated to change the color, any idea what solvent one would try to test the deception? I would guess that a transparent color coating would have to be made from a polyurethane or clear acrylic. Other possibilities?
Thanks for the info!
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Hi bigkitty53,
I don't know if anyone ever corrected you on this, but you've got it backwards. UV is high-frequency short-wavelength radiation. IR is low-frequency long-wavelength radiation.
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I hope someone can shed light on this for me.
Lately I've been seeing some oddly colored bottles on eBay, and I am uncertain whether the colors are natural. I know that the ultra-deep purples are almost certainly bottles with manganese glass that have been heavily "nuked" with UV. But I...
I really can't say. I'm not used to seeing hand-tooled crown tops at all, but that is clearly what it is. I based the bottle age on other bottles pulled from the same strata. I found several attractive blue-green (not aqua!) BIMAL olive/pickle jars (my best guess), all with fairly crude lips...
Looking for info on a:
Clear BIM, beer/soda, with a hand-worked crown lip
Circular embossing on front reads: "Registered, Ferdinand Haas, Dobbs Ferry, N.Y."
Large script "FH" embossed in center of circle
Embossing along front base reads: "This bottle not to be sold"
I estimate the age as...
Greetings RobF!
I, too, have been researching the history of Rockland and Orange Counties. With such a long history, there should be plenty of bottles in the ground. Unfortunately, suburban sprawl makes accessing them difficult. I have gone bottle hunting in the area five weekends now and...
Hi braddboi,
I had to do a Google search to figure out what you meant by "southern tier", but now I know you meant 3 NY counties: Chemung, Schulyer, & Steuben. How is the digging out there? Rockland and Orange counties were well settled back to the American Revolution. I would be great...
I'm a longtime California diggrrr! displaced to the East Coast (Suffern, NY). There's a whole lot of history out here, so I figure there have to be some old bottles in the ground. I'm looking for a digging partner to share effort and help keep me motivated. Let's go find a glory hole!