A bunch of broken Pontiled locals, and what they taught me

[AntiqueMeds]

"Smokey and the Badger" wasnt that a really bad Burt Reynolds movie?

 

[THOMAS1967]

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[deacon_frost]

Dang Plummy cool find but also sucks. Got my fingers crossed for ya, do you already have a complete one in your collection?

 

[DruggistBottles]

Plumbata, did you ever find any more pontiled bottles at the river?

 

[ILUV2DIG]

Im wondering if those pontils were run off from a dump somewhere up the bank?

 

[appliedlips]

That is the second cache of Farrells I have seen dug. The first was during the the building of the new Busch stadium in St.Louis. A fellow digger and member here hit a spot of fill, with nothing but pontilled Farrells in it. Hundreds of unused bottles,some whole but a lot were broken. I dug an area full of Mexican Mustang liniments at the same site. Weird how bottles turn up like that. I know of a couple caches of bottles being found that were unknown at the time of the dig,and remain the only known examples. As Rick says,you never know.

 

[akronmarbles]

These bottles were puntied up on the blow pipes they were created on - you see it on puffs, flasks, etc. Note that the pontil diameter and thickness is always the same as the bottle top. I have stuck up pieces like this before - glass blower for 20+ years.

 

[DruggistBottles]

Here is a close up of the bottom of one. I have my own little cache of them.

 

[DruggistBottles]

Here are the others. Some are from H. G. Farrell in Peoria the other form W.B. Farrell in Chicago. W. B. Left the business in Peoria in 1849.

 

[zecritr]

nice pic and pontils ")