Aqua Blacking

[annie44]

Just got this one in today and I really love it! It is an aqua blacking bottle, which is pretty scarce!

 

[annie44]

The pontil....

 

[annie44]

The top, next to a 1/2 pint Westford flask which is also a recent purchase....

 

[appliedlips]

Cindy, Nice blacking bottle.Your right about not seeing many of the aquas.

I may catch some grief on this one but I think some of them are midwestern.I have seen a few here in Ohio and even less colored ones.We dug a pit about a year ago that was full of broken blackings,in a very light yellow olive color and flared lips.They were about the exact mold as the Keene bottles except for the lip and a midwestern looking color.

 

[tigue710]

That's a sweet little flask there Cindy, what shade is it?

Many of the aqua blacking were made in Willingtion, Westford, Coventry and Keene, but I see no reason why they wouldn't have been made in Ohio. There is really to much emphasis on attribution with out reasonable practice... I mean why wouldn't Ohio glass houses make blacking bottles? Of course they would...

Its one thing if a bottle is found in an exact mold discovered to have been used at one glass house in particular but way to often something is Stoddard because it is old, or Keene if it is older! They were both actually small areas of production mainly serving localized markets, Stoddard had four glass works through out the times, but what is the likely hood a pontil ink cylinder found in CT, which had four operational works at almost any given time in the early years of glass making, was not made in CT? And then one found in Ohio?

Its kinda of a shame that Harry Hall White was not more interested in some of the more common stuff...

 

[annie44]

Thanks for the comments Doug and Matt. I tend to like the unembossed flasks and utilities, which is fortunate for my pocketbook, but does make it a little harder to figure out exactly where the bottles originated. To me the main thing is the glass itself - it doesn't really matter exactly which glasshouse it came from if it has a nice pontil, a good color, or is unique in some other way.

The flask is dark amber, the perfect match for a pint Westford I bought at Shuppes Grove a couple of years ago...

 

[Delta Digger]

awesome find..i need one like that..

 

[Stardust]

I'm drooling......[8D] I gotta get some bottles...
I'm happy for you .....enjoy

 

[downeastdigger]

Doug, I dug an aqua one like that in a privy ( yes privy ) in Exeter NH. Unfortunatly mine was broken, but I glued it back together because I hadn't seen on that I could remember. I've dug an emeral green ( Keene green) , and I've had a few olive ambers, but aqua seems to be the rarest. Nice bottle Cindy!

 

[tigue710]

nice... I love the old amber color... I take to plain utilitarian stuff myself. I am more interested in crude glass then anything else... Probably why I like Patent Whiskeys so much...