Call it what you like, but here is a great example of an anomaly that has been discussed at length in the past.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/RARE-SUPER-CRUDE-LADY-LEG-BEER-BOTTLE-STODDARD-THOUSANDS-BUBBLES-/160711272521?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item256b236849#ht_500wt_1276
I was in my attic tonight and put my foot through the ceiling about two feet from the cabinet where all of my good bottles are. While I am not at all excited about the huge hole in my ceiling, I am so relieved that the tons of debris that fell down didn't break any of my bottles!! Of course...
I was pretty surprised after getting an email yesterday inviting me to comment on a customer who wanted to return a bottle to American Bottle Auction. Regardless of whether the buyer just had "buyers remorse" or not, the policy of ABA is you can return a bottle "not questions asked". And yet...
Well, I have a new appreciation for those who do professional pottery and ceramic restoration. I decided to glue together some of the shards from my dig with Alan, Chris and Doug. This was a difficult task! Right off the bat, I superglued two of my fingers together. This was right before I...
Matt (antiquemeds) has been very helpful with giving me advise on resizing photos, but I thought I'd throw out a couple of questions for everyone.
How do you resize photos so that it is small when you post it, but if you click on it, it enlarges for the viewer?
Does anyone have a program...
Went on my first dig yesterday with Chris, Alan, and Doug and had a great time. They had no objection to my posting a few pics on the forum so here they are......This first one is a picture of the breezeway that we walked through to get to the back patio area, where the privy was buried in...
I rarely use ebay any more, but took advantage of free listing period to post these - Check them out!
http://shop.ebay.com/ccsuter44/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=&_trksid=p4340
With the exception of the middle blacking bottle in the third picture, these aren't new to me......just thought I'd take advantage of the sunny day and get some new photos.
No this is not the one that sold on ebay recently - but that prompted me to finally take some pictures of mine as this is one of my favorite bottles that I acquired this year.
I don't know a lot about inks, but I think that the umbrella inks in this clear flint glass are quite a bit more scarce than the aquas that you see quite a bit. I really like this one - it has almost a smoky gray tint to the glass.
Nice poison on ebay.....
http://cgi.ebay.com/RARE-KU-22-DR-ORESTE-POISON-BOTTLE-W-STOPPER_W0QQitemZ190330208086QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item2c50907f56&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14
This may have been posted before, but if it was I missed it........
http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/nyregion/1-in-8-million/index.html#/jack_fortmeyer