monster tops

[cobaltbot]

Show us your monster tops. It's hard not to keep these guys when I find them, I wish I could have seen the whole bottle. Digging one of these whole doesn't happen very often. The second biggest was a Whitall Tatum and has a 17 on it.

 

[cobaltbot]

I showed this one recently but had to throw it in, I really would have like to seen this beauty!

 

[earlyglass]

Here is an incredibly large Stoddard demijohn top....

It took a set of lungs to blow the demijohn this went on to!

Mike

 

[earlyglass]

another shot...

 

[Dabeel]

Here you go Steve,
This one was from last spring SF,CA early 1850-60's.

Doug

 

[cobaltbot]

Thanks guys, that stoddard would have been killer. Doug, that's an interesting top!

 

[RED Matthews]

Hi guys; I just wanted to add a fact to the big blown demijohn appreciating people. In a lot of cases on blowing extra large demijohn's and bigger carboys the bottle blower often took a nip of whiskey and blew it into the blowpipe. The vaporizing alcahol expanded and and blue the bottle to size more easily. Spell check isn't here. RED Matthews

 

[JOETHECROW]

Interesting that, about the nip of whiskey Red.....Here's one I found at the base of an ancient Hemlock tree , hiking along a narrow guage railroad grade in the snow ...it had the jagged neck part like some of the above pics, but I ground it down at work for a paperweight...It's a real deep blue/aqua... Joe

 

[JOETHECROW]

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[JOETHECROW]

hey,...please pardon our dust,....[] We heat with wood and it's a constant thing,...the dust.