Plumbata
Well-Known Member
Well, before I went digging today I told my gal that I would find something awesome, perhaps something that would help pay the incessant bills.
I had no idea that my casual statement would actually come true.
I went out, scratched for less than 3 minutes, and out popped something that I knew was special. I actually smacked one of the panels with my modified hoe. Thank god I didn't break the thing! I felt each of the 6 panels, and much to my surprise i felt embossing! I rubbed the dirt off the base, and felt something even more uncommon considering my experience; a pontil! [
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It came out of a post-TOC layer, but it is a good 45-55 years older. The wear on the base indicates that it saw plenty of use, so it must have been a VERY late throw, tossed after it served whatever final purpose it had. The only stuff around it was china, no other complete bottles, just a newer broken Ponds' Extract and some crappy slicks. After finding what I knew was a good one, I packed up and left, knowing that I wouldnt find anything else nearly as good even if I stayed 20 hours on top of the 10 minutes it took to pack up and take off.
It is 9 inches tall, a light emerald or lime-green, and it has no chips or cracks, just a little conchoidal divot in the base which detracts almost nothing from this fine specimen (at about 10:30 in the last image, the other protuberances are intentional mold alterations). It has a rolled lip and is about as fine a specimen of pontiled glass that i could expect to find in a town that hardly even existed in the 1850s
It is embossed "E.H.V.B. N.Y." and, as stated, has an iron pontil (that is very well preserved).
Well, here is where the questions come into the scene. How old is it, what do you know about the company, and is it desirable as far as embossed and colored pickles go? I am a noob and know nothing about it, so any and all info is much appreciated.
Take care and good luck digging y'all! If this can be had in TOC dumps in the midwest, then such things can be had anywhere, so go get 'em people! []
I had no idea that my casual statement would actually come true.
I went out, scratched for less than 3 minutes, and out popped something that I knew was special. I actually smacked one of the panels with my modified hoe. Thank god I didn't break the thing! I felt each of the 6 panels, and much to my surprise i felt embossing! I rubbed the dirt off the base, and felt something even more uncommon considering my experience; a pontil! [
]It came out of a post-TOC layer, but it is a good 45-55 years older. The wear on the base indicates that it saw plenty of use, so it must have been a VERY late throw, tossed after it served whatever final purpose it had. The only stuff around it was china, no other complete bottles, just a newer broken Ponds' Extract and some crappy slicks. After finding what I knew was a good one, I packed up and left, knowing that I wouldnt find anything else nearly as good even if I stayed 20 hours on top of the 10 minutes it took to pack up and take off.
It is 9 inches tall, a light emerald or lime-green, and it has no chips or cracks, just a little conchoidal divot in the base which detracts almost nothing from this fine specimen (at about 10:30 in the last image, the other protuberances are intentional mold alterations). It has a rolled lip and is about as fine a specimen of pontiled glass that i could expect to find in a town that hardly even existed in the 1850s
It is embossed "E.H.V.B. N.Y." and, as stated, has an iron pontil (that is very well preserved).
Well, here is where the questions come into the scene. How old is it, what do you know about the company, and is it desirable as far as embossed and colored pickles go? I am a noob and know nothing about it, so any and all info is much appreciated.
Take care and good luck digging y'all! If this can be had in TOC dumps in the midwest, then such things can be had anywhere, so go get 'em people! [
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