Embossed Puff

[tigue710]

Ive always heard these refereed to as travel inks... Ive dug a lot of unembossed ones, some pontiled some not. The idea is that it was an easy amount of ink to carry for any small task that might arise. Never heard of the two part use?

Puffs are bottles that only need a quick "puff" to make. Although used loosely for small early bottles, in New England it generally was used to described small free blown bottles in particular...

The terminology supposedly goes back to the description used by glass blowers...

 

[RICKJJ59W]

ORIGINAL: surfaceone

Does anybody know anything about these embossed puffs?

Hey Steve,

Terminology, or glossary-wise, I'm confused again. I've seen the word "puff" used to describe un-embossed bottles in the past, generally when describing smaller bottles.

Is this a proper interpretation of the term? Are "puffs" any small bottle? Is this a regional thang?

How do y'all use "puff" when, and if, you use it?

Here's a Puff for ya[]

 

[tigue710]

I prefer the magical dragon type

 

[AntiqueMeds]

described small free blown bottles in particular

I would agree that I dont consider a mold blown bottle to be a 'puff'.
A puff was a very quickly made freeblown bottle.
I think that would be a penny ink assuming its an ink.

I have seen pontil marked initial only bottles with JC NY DR M NSP HV AJB FK

 

[RICKJJ59W]

ORIGINAL: tigue710

I prefer the magical dragon type

He lived by the sea right???

 

[surfaceone]

Here's a Puff for ya []

Rick, here's one for you.

 

[Wheelah23]

I've always thought of a puff as a pontiled slick of any kind. Usually with thin glass, although not always. An embossed one wouldn't be a puff then. Maybe we really should make a dictionary of bottle digger terms... []

 

[tigue710]

puff rocks...

this is what by definition is a puff... I'll use the word to describe a number of slick mold blown bottles too, just for lack of a better term and because bottle collectors know what im talking about anyway... but to break it down this is a puff, a fat squatty "puffish" looking free blown vial...

picture borrowed, without consent...

 

[AntiqueMeds]

I think of a puff as a small freeblown vial that just took a puff of breath from the blower...

 

[bottlekid76]

What about this little guy? It's a small little thin glass OP with a tapered top. Dug from a pit down in Charleston SC. What do you think of the form?

~Tim