repaired bottles, the sequel

[bearswede]

This is a saratoga-type mineral water that hails from a town near me in western MA... A Haskins with a small basal chip just sold at one of the big 4 online auctions for around $850...

Mine had a flat, nickel-sized clam-shell flake off the base toward the front of the bottle... It displayed ok, but the missing glass was noticeable on close inspection, and quite obvious when the bottle was turned over, exposing the base...

 

[bearswede]

here's a pic of the repair from the front...

 

[bearswede]

Here's the base... The repair is at the top... You can see that the glass at the base is naturally undulous, and the repair fits right in...

 

[bearswede]

Here's (perhaps) a better photo of the bottom front...

 

[drjhostetters]

Hey Bear...

Repaired or not that is a beautiful bottle ..I see why that other one sold for so much...of course I am partial to green bottles...if you want you can will me that bottle..snicker snicker!

Keep on huntin'..

The Doc...[X(]

 

[bearswede]

Hey Doc...

Thanks... If my wife, kids or dog don't want it, or I don't sell it at the Little Rhody Bottle Show this weekend, or at some show in the future, or on ebay...it's yours!!!!

When I was diggin' bottle dumps back in the 70's in Belchertown, MA, I dreamed of finding a Haskin's... Now I do my "diggin'" on ebay, and this baby popped up at a price I couldn't afford to pass up...

Say, do you have one of those early, crude black glass Hostetter's kickin' around the house you don't need anymore???


Ron

 

[tazmainiendigger]

Ron would you settle for a yellow one? Taz

 

[bearswede]

hi taz...

I actually have a beautiful honey amber "hoss" , shiney glass like liquid amber, with L&W and 4 dots embossed on the base... it has what appear to be a series of scratches, but the more I look at them, the more they look more like in-manufacture flaws that were manifested at the surface of the glass...

anyway, I've been salivating at the crude, black-glass "hoss"es that have been floating by on ebay, just out of reach (of my pocketbook, i.e.)...

Ron

 

[drjhostetters]

Wow...

Where have I been? Is it really the 30th of Forever now? Guess I didn't expect a reply to my silly statement...

And alas the only true Dr. J. bottle I have is a medium amber...it was my very first dig find about 30 years ago (thus my Forum "handle"), (I dug a case of twelve, several amber, a few clear and only the one embossed...I gave all but one amber and one clear to friends..kept the embossed one naturally.)


Keep on diggin' and lookin'...

The Doc...[X(]

 

[kastoo]

Do you repair bottles? I have one that is not valuable enough to repair by most folks standards but I want to anyway. I wish I knew how. I have 2 bottles, a broke off top and a broke off bottom that I want to make one bottle out of. It is a straightside coke.

this is the top: http://www.thetreasuredepot.com/cgi-bin/bottles/bottles_config.pl?read=9067

this is the bottom: http://www.thetreasuredepot.com/cgi-bin/bottles/bottles_config.pl?read=9066

What would you charge to do it?