drjhostetters
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Hey friends....
I was browsing through one of my favorite antique stores here in town and I spied this strange looking bottle/jar(?)..looked like an ink bottle about the same size as the familier screw lid kind you remember back in the 50's and 60's (if you're old enough to remember the 50's and 60's)..anyway..what caught my attention was the lid screws appeared to be attached to the jar, I could see "flashing" that had run down the side of the jar a little ways, but it had screw threads..the unusual part was the screws were all misshappen and the top has sagged in in a few places..like they had screwed the lid on while the "top" was still slightly molten and it sagged and "ran"...??? Has anyone seen anything like this before? Was this a usual practice to let the lid "cut" it's own threads by screwing it on while the glass was still liquidy..??? I almost bought it but it was a little out of my price range and I had already spent my allowance for the month and besides my wife made me a deal..she said if I didn't buy any more bottles for awhile she would let me live...and I thought that was a pretty good deal[].
Thanks for any help on this one...
Keep on browsing the shops...
The Doc...[X(]
I was browsing through one of my favorite antique stores here in town and I spied this strange looking bottle/jar(?)..looked like an ink bottle about the same size as the familier screw lid kind you remember back in the 50's and 60's (if you're old enough to remember the 50's and 60's)..anyway..what caught my attention was the lid screws appeared to be attached to the jar, I could see "flashing" that had run down the side of the jar a little ways, but it had screw threads..the unusual part was the screws were all misshappen and the top has sagged in in a few places..like they had screwed the lid on while the "top" was still slightly molten and it sagged and "ran"...??? Has anyone seen anything like this before? Was this a usual practice to let the lid "cut" it's own threads by screwing it on while the glass was still liquidy..??? I almost bought it but it was a little out of my price range and I had already spent my allowance for the month and besides my wife made me a deal..she said if I didn't buy any more bottles for awhile she would let me live...and I thought that was a pretty good deal[].
Thanks for any help on this one...
Keep on browsing the shops...
The Doc...[X(]