baltbottles
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I just picked this one up from a friend today. This is the Cole tenpin mold with St. rather then Street spelled out in sort of a pale blue color. This puts me up to 13 of the 17 different embossed Baltimore torpedo and tenpin molds. I have been working on getting an example from each of the known molds for almost 10 years now. I'm also doing the same with the pontiled Baltimore sodas and still need 14 different mold variants to complete my Baltimore soda collection for molds then its just color and lip type variants I would have to work on which is a huge undertaking.
Throw in all the marked stoneware root beer and mead bottles from the pontil era and the unembossed porters and sodas that can be attributed to a Baltimore glass house and I still need a huge amount of bottles. But thats what makes collecting fun. Finding that elusive bottle to complete a grouping and researching the company that used the bottle to know when it was used.
The Cole ten pin I just got was likely only used from 1849-1851
Chris
Throw in all the marked stoneware root beer and mead bottles from the pontil era and the unembossed porters and sodas that can be attributed to a Baltimore glass house and I still need a huge amount of bottles. But thats what makes collecting fun. Finding that elusive bottle to complete a grouping and researching the company that used the bottle to know when it was used.
The Cole ten pin I just got was likely only used from 1849-1851
Chris
