More Stoddard help needed.

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Pontil on the cone with the "x" embossed. There is a smear of glass at the seam on the left, and the key mold lines are clearly seen.

 

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Here they are together for color comparison.

 

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Pontils showing mold lines. The utility does not have an offset mold line like the cone. The utility is thin , light and fragile while the cone is just the opposite: thick, heavy and dense.

 

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Another shot with different lighting

 

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One more for fun.

 

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Thank You Paul great looking glass and nice pictures!! I will ad those tonight just got home from work long dayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy[X(]

 

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The history behind these two bottles goes like this. In Thomaston, Maine in the early nineteenth century there was a sea captain who wrote letters from his basement office. When he was done with his ink bottles, he would lift up the loose 4 foot long floorboard near his desk and toss the empty bottles into the dirt. After he died, his house was bought and sold many times over but sadly was eventually left abandoned and fell into disrepair to the point of being uninhabitable. By the mid twentieth century, nobody would ever live there again. In the spring of 1990, my brother and I were exploring that empty house and dirt basement and we were probing for glass. We discovered the little spot where he threw his bottles 150 years earlier and I'm happy to say that we found these two bottles along with other colored pontillled bottles, an aqua Harrisons ink, a pontilled GA Wright perfumer, and a variety of other pontilled bottles. We sold all but the four colored pontilled bottles. Here are the other two colored pontils we kept. It was quite a day finding them all together and the miracle is that none have any damage.

 

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I forgot to mention that the cone is 2-1/4 " in height, 2-1/8 " across the base, and the neck opening and the pontil are 5/8 inch wide.

Thanks by the way for the info and the link on the glass repair stuff. I'll have to pick some up. Do you have any idea what that decanter might be worth in perfect shape as compared to a broken/repaired one? I'm out of my league on those.

 

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I forgot to mention that the cone is 2-1/4 " in height, 2-1/8 " across the base, and the neck opening and the pontil are 5/8 inch wide.

Thanks by the way for the info and the link on the glass repair stuff. I'll have to pick some up. Do you have any idea what that decanter might be worth in perfect shape as compared to a broken/repaired one? I'm out of my league on those.

Go over to here Paul https://www.antique-bottles.net/forum/m-622876/mpage-1/key-/tm.htm#623389 for an answer to your question I think you will be pleasantly surprised and thanks for the Story on you inks and bottles I will include it.If you have pictures of the house send them as well!!

 

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Thanks Steve, I hadn't been over to that post today. Thanks for that info.

Unfortunately, the house fell down in a heap some years back. I'm sorry to say I didn't get any pictures of it before it went down. Picture a three story colonial and you get the idea. I am glad to say we went in it when we did.