Anyone else go to the Clevenger auction?

[KentOhio]

Maybe the prettiest mold, one with a leafy design on the inside. It was described as a vase mold. I need to find the thing that this made too.

 

[KentOhio]

Finally, the tools I bought. One pair of shears has W.T.&Co stamped on it. They went out of business in 1901. One of the bottle lipping tools, the blob-top finish, I'm also pretty sure is 19th-century.

 

[cyberdigger]

Looks like good stuff to me.. I'd be sleepless and awake all night if I brought all this stuff home.. heck I'd be trying to find a way to melt glass by now! Very cool, thanks for posting!! We just don't see enough pics of molds...[]

 

[GuntherHess]

so when are you going to start blowing your glass??

 

[LC]

Great post Brian , I reall enjoyed looking at these mold up close .

The glass mold reminds me of some of the milk glass as well as the carnival glass glasses I have had before , do not know if I still have any of them in a box in the building or not , but will take a look when I have the time .

What is the frderal law whiskey mold of , I will check a box I have quite a few of the federal law whiskeys in and see if I have the one in question as well , Lou

 

[RIBottleguy]

That's some pretty cool stuff there. Now you can go and make some bottles! I wish you luck in finding matching bottles for the molds.

 

[Poison_Us]

Very cool! Blown glass is a dying art. Seen it done once, but a quick google for someone in the business should be able to help you create some modern antiques...maybe you will find someone close to you.

 

[RED Matthews]

Hi Been, I sure would like to see that 3-part hob-nail mold and the 3-part vase mold. I think you lucked out on tools, I am working on a homepage blog covering early glass making tools. There has been a lot already put together in books, but I am trying to just add to the items that are different than what we even know about. For example the empontilling tools that were used and produced a long holding mark on the glass. I have covered a couple of them in my demi-john blog.

I would really appreciate some pictures of the tools for my blog. I would think it best to clean them with electrolysis and then coating them with a brushing of extend to prevent extended rusting.

Neat trip. And I see from you PM page that you have a lot of other entries posted that I will have to review. Thanks for covering the auction for the ones that could not go.
RED Matthews

 

[KentOhio]

Thanks for the replies. Last night on ebay I found the Chemung Spring Water bottle as a buy-it-now for $12, so it's on its way already. The grape goblet looks the same as some made by Westmoreland. I'd have to do a better comparison to see if it's identical or not. As I was cleaning the insulator mold, I noticed it's stamped J.E. Travis Millville. I know a couple guys with their own glass shops nearby. Maybe they'll let me test the molds there.

 

[KentOhio]

Here's a photo for Red. This shows most of the tools they had at the auction.