Show us your Birdswings!

[downeastdigger]

HI Tigue , nice job on the photo of the birdswing on the inside! Thats a cool one, I've never seen one like that. Would ;you sell it or trade it? I'd love to have a birdswing collection. One of my favorite bottle collections I've ever seen was a few years ago, where a guy had bottles that had been wrapped in tree roots. He had carefully sawed the tree root, saving the bottle. So he had them lined out on a table, just 3 or 4 of them, and each one had a THICK root, like 4 or 5 " thick, completely grown around the bottle. I thought it was cool because there is no way you could reproduce it or make a fake one. And in order to be made, it requires 50+ years, or however old that 4" root was. Anyone ever see one of these? Or are you saying "what the hell is Bram talking about?"

ORIGINAL: 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...

 

[downeastdigger]

OOPs, sorry didnt mean to reproduce all those pics again

 

[tigue710]

This is one of my favorite bottles, maybe someday though.... but I dont want to get your hopes up! I've seen a few root bottles, even dug a warranted flask once myself that had a nice thick root wrapped around it. I remember someone posting a historical with a root around it, I think it was double eagle? might have been Rick? It was very cool...

 

[appliedlips]

Cool topic.I know I have a couple bottles with them around here somewhere,will post when I find them.In the meantime,here is a coffin flask with a large chunk of glass inside( much larger than the neck).I broke the shoulder of the bottle shaking the chunk around like a moron.I wonder how it possibly could have gotten in the bottle and not attached itself to the inside of the glass.Hope to see some more of these oddities.Doug

 

[tigue710]

dang Doug, that is interesting there... you sure that isnt a chunk of ice though?

 

[appliedlips]

Thanks Tique,It' not ice but that was my intitial thought until I realized I was digging in 90 degree weather.It is glass and was dug near the factory where it was made.Doug

 

[cowseatmaize]

Sorry Bram, mines one of a few that I have left from my pre-teen digging days. It's the only common I kept do to the swing. Everything else has long since been sold, given or thown away. Desperate times call... but I'm not quite there yet and if I was it would have to sell for a big chunk of change which it isn't worth. If I need a kidney or some other organ I'll let you know. I hope no one ever gets to that point.
I also have a near outside swing olive cone. It's got a big swoop of sharp glass but never connected to a point on another place.

 

[idigjars]

Sorry it took me so long to post some pics. I have one Piso with a bird swing, really hard to take the pic so I guess you might have to use your imagination a little? [] Take care, Paul

 

[idigjars]

A new beer but this Coor's is for you [] Paul

 

[idigjars]

another view of the Coors