Is this a bird swing?
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epackage
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It's not a bird swing, it's a big bubble, a bird swing is a piece of glass extending from wall of a bottle to the other side. That way a bird could sit on it like a branch...
Here's a PERFECT example...
https://www.antique-bottles.net/forum/ERROR-BOTTLE/m-227216/tm.htm
Here's a PERFECT example...
https://www.antique-bottles.net/forum/ERROR-BOTTLE/m-227216/tm.htm
]RED Matthews
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Hello dw3000, Your bottle is of interest to me because of the form of the Half Leaf look. If you have been to my homepage, you might have read about the Half Leaf form in glass that I have been studying for several years.
I have some bottles with birdswings also. I try to collect bottles with anomalies of either forming methods or strange things created in the forming process. Your bottle is of interest to me. RED Matthews
I have some bottles with birdswings also. I try to collect bottles with anomalies of either forming methods or strange things created in the forming process. Your bottle is of interest to me. RED Matthews
dw3000
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Hi Red, I just read your piece about the the half leaf repair. I think the “bubble†in my bottle could be that. At first I wasn't sure because it appears from the images on your website that the half leaf is slightly lower than the surface of the glass, whereas on my bottle the imperfection is below the surface with embossing over top. But then I realized that it is slightly lower than the glass surface on the inside of the bottle (I initially thought it appeared to be raised). So perhaps it is half leaf repair, or maybe it is just an open bubble shaped like a half leaf.
bottle_head9
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RED Matthews
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Hi again dw3000; I looked at the mark pictures again, and feel that they are showing a bubble with a straight side to it. The half leafs that I have seen all have a cloth looking surface on the leaf surface. This is caused when the small carbon particles are eroded out of the welded in mold iron that was put in the milled out mold metal and filed (or riffled) consistent with the mold cavity surface.
I really look for the defect marks of all kinds to try and relate them to what caused their existence. RED Matthews
I really look for the defect marks of all kinds to try and relate them to what caused their existence. RED Matthews
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