Bought 3 Stoddards Iron Pontils $100 w/Video

[madpaddla]

Hello all:

Gonna need some help on the other two that were purchased. I got 3 Stoddard Mineral Water type Iron Pontil bottles, two Early English/American bottles with really neat bases, and an amber Carters for 1 bean. Not bad. Great guy I got em off. Your help on the English/American ones is appreciated. Thanks

Here is the link for the video:
Stoddard Bottles

 

[madpaddla]

RE: Bought 3 Stoddards Iron Pontils $100

Here are some shots of the bases:

 

[madpaddla]

RE: Bought 3 Stoddards Iron Pontils $100

Nice ugly crude [][]

 

[madpaddla]

RE: Bought 3 Stoddards Iron Pontils $100

Any ideas on the bases. Thanks
Madpaddla

 

[madpaddla]

RE: Bought 3 Stoddards Iron Pontils $100

Here are some close ups of the bottles in question.
Whole bottle. Very appreciative of your thoughts. I have talked to some other forum members and they think they might be American.

 

[madpaddla]

RE: Bought 3 Stoddards Iron Pontils $100

Lip.

 

[madpaddla]

RE: Bought 3 Stoddards Iron Pontils $100

Here is the best pic of the base I could get.

 

[bearswede]

RE: Bought 3 Stoddards Iron Pontils $100

Hi Ben...

I have a similar bottle I dug back in the '70's, probably in Belchertown... I always called it a sand-chip pontil... Altho, I have seen similar scarring on so-called iron pontils lacking residue... Always assumed they were American... Somewhat common, I think... But nice to display...


Ron

 

[tigue710]

RE: Bought 3 Stoddards Iron Pontils $100

Very nice! The Stoddards are a type produced there, but also every else in New England at the time. I think you could safely say Stoddard. I'm going to have to go English on the other ones though, with three piece mold and more square types of lip. Refired pontil types like that where produced in both the states and across the pond, and it is almost impossible to say exactly where. I have found most made here in the states to have slopeing lips, and the english ones to have more square lips.... but even that is more of a guide line then a rule!