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hydrogeologist
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Oh, and I was looking over the Eye Water bottle last night and noticed it is embossed 1854 very crudely in smaller font next to Phil on the side. Very cool!
bottlecrazy
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Love the eye water bottle! I'd be excited as hell finding that anywhere. Congrats!
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I should start gambling, because I found this one today on the ground surface in a newly excavated soil pile not 50' from the other Eye Water bottle posted earlier in the thread.
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Pontil scar.
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hydrogeologist
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Looked at them side by side in the sunlight when I got home today. I'm new to this but they look intrinsically different. See below:
The pontils also look very different to me. I think the left one is an older iron pontil and the right is an open pontil.
Again, I'm a newbie, but these two bottles look very different to me. I know this doc's proprietary medicine was sold in the 1840s and 1850s, so were these bottles two different stages of glass technology?
The pontils also look very different to me. I think the left one is an older iron pontil and the right is an open pontil.
Again, I'm a newbie, but these two bottles look very different to me. I know this doc's proprietary medicine was sold in the 1840s and 1850s, so were these bottles two different stages of glass technology?
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whittled
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It looks like the same mold (short and long legs on the "R") but at different stages of wear which might imply the right one is older. It may also just be the blower having a bad day for the left of two blowers with different techniques.
Can you get a few shots of the sides please?
Can you get a few shots of the sides please?
sandchip
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Both are open (blowpipe) pontils. Looks like the same mold to me too. A little more glass in the gather, temp or variation in composition of the batch, working temp of the mold, different gaffer, etc. can result in noticeable variations in the end product. That's what's so great about early blown glass. Also, the iron pontil is later than the open pontil and was considered an improvement. Very nice finds and thanks for sharing them with us.
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