GuntherHess
Well-Known Member
Can anyone tell me why this pontil has no iron in it? This is as found. I have done nothing to clean it. Was two feet under mud in lake bottom but the bottle is nearly mint... No oxidization hardly at all. You can still see some lake bottom inside of it. i will clean that out soon. There are 130 tin oyster cans in decent shape. I don't think this bottle ever had iron in the pontil. So how was it made?
That appears to be a perfectly good iron pontil scar, it just has no iron residue left, probably from being in water. Sometimes even ones in the ground have little or no residue.