Show off your crudest bottle

[Steve/sewell]

[h2]Wisatrburgh Mallet bottle[/h2] [attachment=3472890_orig.jpg] [attachment=7728402_orig.jpg] [attachment=6803310_orig.jpg]Nice bottles everyone.... Tim that is an old English Onion (300 years) where did you get that from!!,Jason great looking crude New England glass. Rory simply the best always,FitsandTic or Anon is that Greek lol nice looking bottles very crude and old. Buzz that is an Army one handed push up not a girly man push up lol great looking bottle. Mason that bottle has a John Wayne stance nice, Red Matthews would enjoy a close up of the neck. Jim Sandchip you have an awesome collection of early medicines please post them more often!!. Some of you have seen this bottle before.This one is old 270 to 260 years and buried for 250. A Wistarburgh made mallet wine bottle.Water,calcification,and an acidic soil changed the glass completely on this one. Jim epackage this glass has the same texture as your great looking blob bottle you posted earlier in this thread . This proves that the glass is turned quickly when exposed to an acidic environment. Jim's bottle is 115 to 125 years old and looks exactly the same as this one.

 

[Steve/sewell]

On the base you can see a letter C pressed into the pontil mark. This is a makers mark no doubt and may have stood for Caspar Halter one of the master gaffers who was a part owner of one of the glass companies operating under the Wistarburgh Umbrella.[attachment=4407472_orig.jpg] [attachment=7065518_orig.jpg] [attachment=7310434_orig.jpg]

 

[sandchip]

Wild!

 

[fer_de_lance]

[h2]Wisatrburgh Mallet bottle[/h2] [.... Tim that is an old English Onion (300 years) where did you get that from!!,

Steve, The 1790ish transitional S&G to onion came out of Birmingham,UK. http://www.knowleauctionrooms.co.uk/catalogues/gs080513/lot0126.html.above link is the auction where it was sold to the person I purchased it from. I'm still on my quest for a true Shaft &Globe but I felt this bottle fit well into the time line and would not kill my budget. If you have any of those Wistarburgh mallets that need a new place to gather dust, I have the perfect shelf for it. The devitrification of your example reminds me of the circa 1700 onion I just purchased from a Florida dealer.I hope you take it as a compliment, you are the King of Crude. Tim

 

[cacarpetbagger]

Some mighty fine looking bottles, love seeing the good stuff. Some of those pontiled meds were off the chart!!

 

[MaineMtnDigger]

[attachment=DSCN0621.JPG] If you look close you’ll see how the slag in the glass spiraled around as they put on the lip

 

[sandchip]

Pretty bottle.