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Merle

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Found a cool one for the shelf today
 

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Nice one! Is it pontiled? Whered you find it
 

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Sure is, has nice iron pontil with deep kick up. I got it from a buddy of mine here in Illinois. I bought it for the imperfection in the bottle mold. Did you zoom in and look at the pic and see the little circles
 

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Sure is, has nice iron pontil with deep kick up. I got it from a buddy of mine here in Illinois. I bought it for the imperfection in the bottle mold. Did you zoom in and look at the pic and see the little circles
I did! Thought that was cool, was too small to be a blank embossing plate so I was wondering what it was
 

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Same here, kind of hoping someone may be able to tell me what they think too.
Hello Merle! Nice add! I'd surmise that it could be a couple of possibilities.

1) The wall in the mold may have had a near surface cavity that failed during operations or was found in pre use inspection, and was then repaired (possibly twice) leaving the rectangle and drill hole plugs.

2) A novice mold cutter started to cut embossing into a utility mold that is never going to see embossing. The deed was noticed and caught before it went too far, and the noob had to repair the mold to the best of his abilities.

.....just a few guesses on it,
~Fred
 

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Well, I usually don’t like when people mess up at they job but made this bottle stick out to me. Love it just the way it is
 

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