Show us your Birdswings!

[downeastdigger]

As I have no new dug stuff to show you guys, I have resorted to posting pictures of past digs. How sad. Do you guys have any of these? I've heard them called 'birdswings', usually on the inside of the bottle is where they are found. This bottle was the first pontiled bottle I ever dug out of a privy ( as apposed to a dump). It has a birdswing on the neck, where a drip of glass dripped off the lip when it was made, and made a little "bridge". I'm fascinated that it made it out of the glass house without this fragile thread of glass breaking, never mind that it was filled and sold and used, then discarded, then dug by me, and I have managed to not accidently break it off all these years. Anyways, I'd be interested to see any of your birdswings, especially if you have any 'outside ' ones.
Bram

 

[downeastdigger]

It is a fairly large sided unembossed med, about 7" tall

 

[downeastdigger]

Nice birdswing Lobey, thanks for posting it! You hardly ever see them. Did you dig that ink?

 

[tigue710]

here is a nice little pontil utility I picked up off of e-bay last year, love this one!

It's amazing that your outside bird swing survived! I've seen a few bottles with mold blow outs or wings on them, some extending almost a quarter inch from the bottle, I always ponder how the did not break when buried...

 

[tigue710]

Thanks Lobey, those two are out of 16, but it is the camera really... I need a new one as this one is messed up but I cant find one that gets as good of a close up as this camera does. It is a Cannon powershot A300, 3.2 mega pixel. The lens' for these were made by the same people who made the Hubble lens (that a good thing, really!), but cannon no longer has them make their lens'. When I first got this camera I coulda of taking the shot with one try and you woulda seen every little bubble in it.... it's getting blurry now a days. I do have an Olympia 5 mega pixils, but it doesn't come close to this one messed up!

 

[bigghouse]

wow those r really cool! howed they get on their?

anna

 

[GuntherHess]

Here is my bird swing. an odd thing to ask to see in a bottles forum?

 

[cowseatmaize]

Here's one, can ya see it? It's that thing at the shoulder that looks like glare but isn't.

 

[downeastdigger]

Hi Anna, they got there from when the bottle was blown, and the glass was still liquid, and a string of glass dripped away from the bottle and somehow stayed solid when it cooled. Kind of like how pizza cheese can be real stringy and a thread of cheese will stick to the plate and stretch out when you take a bite.

ORIGINAL: bigghouse

wow those r really cool! howed they get on their?

anna

 

[downeastdigger]

Hey Cowseatmaize thanks for the post, yes they are hard to photograph on the inside, mine was easy cause it was on the outside. Do you want to sell or trade that bottle? I'd like to start a collection of birdswings

ORIGINAL: cowseatmaize

Here's one, can ya see it? It's that thing at the shoulder that looks like glare but isn't.