Blue pontiled ink found in NY

earlyglass · Oct 27, 2007

Nice inks! The 12 sided inks are typically pretty scarce in comparison to the 8 sided umbrella, however they seem to be more plentiful in the straight-sided versions. They come in a number of different sizes, shapes and colors. Here are a my examples. I collect New England glass and I am pretty confident that these are from the region. I can't speculate on where your ink was produced, but blue is not typical for New England glasshouse (other than Sandwich). If I were to guess... I would say that it was produced at the Lancaster Glassworks, NY, 1840-50. It is a rare and beautiful ink. If you decide to sell it, put it up for private auction in this forum, otherwise you should put it on a shelf for a while and enjoy it!

Mike

beendiggin · Oct 27, 2007

Stonebottle, these were dug as a group in Maine. it was in the basement of an old ship captains home, I was lightly probing a grid pattern when I finally heard glass. Apparently a floorboard had been used as a trap door for trash and it was about 4 feet long by a foot wide. There was no sign of the floor anymore until I scraped a little dirt away, then the wood fibers showed up. Under that was an eight or ten inch layer of bottles. 30 or so in all, most were broken. Most were not pontilled but these are. I also got an aqua Harrisons Columbian Ink pontilled, which I sold to Bob Heath. I kept these, knowing it would be a long time coming before I would get a day like that again. Bob thought that the green bottles were possibly Keene. The other two are definitely Stoddard, as the cone has the "X" on the base, and the colors are a perfect match.

beendiggin · Oct 27, 2007

Thanks, Ron..I really did hit it that day and I know how lucky I am.

stonebottle · Oct 28, 2007

Those really are a great group of bottles and a good story to go along with it. My bottle was about 20 feet from an old foundation, along traces of what was left of an old road. This was on a back road that gets very little traffic. We only found one other pontiled bottle. It was a medicine with embossing but it was shattered and I could not make out what it had on it. I was really hoping for a stoneware bottle but I guess it turns out this ink is even better. So far I have still not heard that anyone owns a 12-sided ink of that blue color, so that makes it even more interesting. stonebottle

blade · Oct 11, 2013

Looks sapphire to me.

epackage · Oct 11, 2013

ORIGINAL: blade

Looks sapphire to me.

You're hooked on 5, 6 and 7 year old posts I see blade...[

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blade · Oct 11, 2013

They age like a fine wine ![8D]

treasurekidd · Oct 11, 2013

I know this is an old post, but the CPC ink is actually the Cross Pen Co of Rhode Island. It comes in several sizes and colors, and the aqua is kinda common, but they are really nice bottles. There are also a couple variations of master inks, but I've only seen those in pictures. Here's a link to them on the Little Rhody Bottle Club site, just scroll down to the bottom of the page:

http://www.littlerhodybottleclub.org/bottlebook/abofrimiscc.html

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