Some color on a winter day

[annie44]

Chris - I'm going to my mom's this weekend and she is going to help me try to glue together some of the pottery from our dig. We had pieces to probably eight chamber pots, and two or three have enough pieces to glue back. I'll bring them to the Baltimore show.......

Caz - thanks for the info. I'm going to check out some of my bottles and I'll post pics if I have any with the mark you mentioned.

 

[bottle_head9]

Heres a couple Mark.I hope you don`t mind if I add to the post.Great photos by the way.[]

 

[bottle_head9]

All pontiled Townsends.I just love These bottles.Big Beefy and Crude..[]

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[JOETHECROW]

Tom,...those Townsends look great in the window! Nice grouping! Nice bottles.

 

[bottle_head9]

Thanks Joe.Heres one I wanted to share.You don`t see these too often.It`s embossed Wolfes on one panel, Schnapps on another and a bell on the third panel.Med golden amber with an applied top.It has been tumbled, but I still love it.I also like this post, EVERYBODY likes to show thier bottles.It`s fun..[]

 

[bottle_head9]

Last one.Got these five in the past few months.Thanks agin Mark(cazdigger), for starting this post.Lets see some more winter bottle pictures people..Love looking at other peoples bottles..[8|]

 

[annie44]

I have a snuff with a debossed "W" on the base that also has the "dot". I think it is a Stoddard snuff.

 

[kungfufighter]

Love to hear folks thoughts on "these" bottles...

http://www.jeffnholantiquebottles.com/webpages/Item2441.html

 

[CazDigger]

Hi Jeff, Red Matthews has some comments on 3pm bottles with that mark on his website. He states that it is from a "key" where the molds come together to lock them in place (If I understand correctly). If that is so, it probably is not unique to Mt Vernon if that is where they are from. Last year I dug a simliar utility in an 1830-50 privy not far from Vernon but with a longer neck, which still could be that same mold. It also shares the unusual characteristic of having an open pontil. Most 3pm black glass ales/porters usually have a sticky ball or sand pontil. Here is a pic of the one I dug. I have not seen Vernon shards of the shoulder area of this type of bottle showing that mark but I have seen a lot of shards (usually base pieces) from that type of bottle in various sizes and the color of yours is consistant but also similar to most glass houses of that time. The mark is on the right of the bottle in my pics.

 

[kungfufighter]

As I recall, Rich Strunk had uncovered some info linking these bottles to both Mount Vernon and Mount Pleasant. I'll have to remember to ask the next time I see him....

I've owned three and seen one or two more (and now yours) - each a little different in neck length and mouth application but with very similar if not identical pontil scars (this type of scar is as you say Mark very unusual for an American beverage bottle, C. 1840), mold markings and color/texture of metal.

Like you I am wary of making definitive statements without lots of solid evidence but the examples I have seen exhibit many characteristics of what I perceive to be Mount Vernon glass.