Finally, after months and months of negotiation!

[old.s.bottles]

ORIGINAL: surfaceone


"The only pontiled milk glass bottle I have seen was in the Sam Greer collection, a round bottle 7 inches tall, embossed Burger's Hair Restorative, New York." From.

It's not the only one thats out there. A while back I saw a label only milk glass bottle from boston with pontil on ebay...

Congrats on the find though, its a great looking bottle

 

[sandchip]

Congrats! That's one fine looking bottle. Unreal backlit.

 

[milkglassbottles]

I feel as if Don has down played the bottle a bit more than one would expect. Additionally, the place marker in lieu of a photo lends me to believe that he doesn't have one. Feel free to draw your own conclusion.

I know who dug them and they came from an early privy. One person I know of ended up with two and then there was the guy that dug them...let's give him two and then there was the Greer bottle that I don't know if there were firemen involved, why do you ask?

Sam Greer had one and I believe it brought $1600.00 back in 1988, I am reasonably certain that Dr. Cannon was referring to the same.

Thanx for the interest and by the way, it will not be located on the shelf next to commercial Barber's Bottles blown by the tens of thousands.

 

[cowseatmaize]

I'm gonna throw this out there, don't be insulted.
I'm not convinced that it's pontilled. It looks more like the base stuck when coming out of the mold. A comparison with the other examples would help. Were any of them actually and more obviously pontilled?

 

[milkglassbottles]

No offense taken. This is the base of one that didn't make it out of the pit in one piece, I this was given to me by the same person who sent me the picture in 1990.

So much for that, huh? LOL

 

[milkglassbottles]

Another view.

 

[milkglassbottles]

I posted this pic some time ago, same piece.

 

[ajohn]

Way to go Gary!

 

[milkglassbottles]

Thank you all for the kind words.

 

[cowseatmaize]

So much for that, huh? LOL

Yup, that's the comparison and yup, that's a pontil. Very cool!