Plumbata
Well-Known Member
Relatively recently I decided that I wanted to get some slugplates for my collection, as they were an integral part of what makes this hobby exist nowadays, so I hopped on ebay and bought some, at a good price considering how stinkin' rare these things are. I haven't seen any listed since, besides a set from the clevenger glass works which should still be in business! My father and I want our own slugplated beer bottles to be handblown so we can package our homebrew in them and impress the heck out of friends, and stuff. Anyone know of other places that still do that sort of thing? The following picture was from the ebay listing where all you see pictured was sold to someone for the starting bid; 24.99. Nice deal, if you're into that sort of thing. Ive only seen several plates listed in several years, not that I was looking hard for em, but someone decided to list several and I'm glad that I was there to nab em.
Well, to get to the plates that I have, the one on top is for a bottle from "Diego Gibson Buenos Aires" Argentina and the other a nice big 2 pound plate for some "Elixir De Feras Dr Carlos Silva Para' (some iron tonic blood invigorator?) from Paraguay. Please note the abundant venting holes, the threaded socket in the back for fastening, the glassworks inventory numbers, and it may be hard to see, but note that the venting holes were drilled(i imagine) at whatever angle was easiest for letting the air escape. Some of them terminate at the sides, as you can see in the diego gibson plate, whereas most of them are drilled into the center so that they intersect with a far larger hole that was drilled through the middle lengthwise in every one(not pictured though) to let air escape from the majority of the vents which were drilled at an angle inwards. Holding things like this helps to teach you a lot about how the process of blowing glass was carried out.
My favorite one, by far, was used for a little brown bottle from my hometown (coincidentally I don't have it yet, just the mold to make em, what the heck!), the only town that I have really collected glass from! It is from "ALLAIRE WOODWARD & CO. PEORIA, ILL" which was a botanical and medicine distributor, and is quite awesome to me as a burgeoning local collector. Next to it is a very nifty plate for a sunken panel bottle which reads "Jordan Marsh Company Boston" which was a department store chain, the last of which were converted to Macy's as of 1996 I believe. The company was founded in 1841 and lasted quite a long time.
Well that's my humble slugplate collection, anyone else here have some of their own that they'd like to share pictures of?
Well, to get to the plates that I have, the one on top is for a bottle from "Diego Gibson Buenos Aires" Argentina and the other a nice big 2 pound plate for some "Elixir De Feras Dr Carlos Silva Para' (some iron tonic blood invigorator?) from Paraguay. Please note the abundant venting holes, the threaded socket in the back for fastening, the glassworks inventory numbers, and it may be hard to see, but note that the venting holes were drilled(i imagine) at whatever angle was easiest for letting the air escape. Some of them terminate at the sides, as you can see in the diego gibson plate, whereas most of them are drilled into the center so that they intersect with a far larger hole that was drilled through the middle lengthwise in every one(not pictured though) to let air escape from the majority of the vents which were drilled at an angle inwards. Holding things like this helps to teach you a lot about how the process of blowing glass was carried out.
My favorite one, by far, was used for a little brown bottle from my hometown (coincidentally I don't have it yet, just the mold to make em, what the heck!), the only town that I have really collected glass from! It is from "ALLAIRE WOODWARD & CO. PEORIA, ILL" which was a botanical and medicine distributor, and is quite awesome to me as a burgeoning local collector. Next to it is a very nifty plate for a sunken panel bottle which reads "Jordan Marsh Company Boston" which was a department store chain, the last of which were converted to Macy's as of 1996 I believe. The company was founded in 1841 and lasted quite a long time.
Well that's my humble slugplate collection, anyone else here have some of their own that they'd like to share pictures of?
