The Beater

[fer_de_lance]

Hello All,
This one has been around the block a time or two and looks it but you would too if you were over three hundred years old. A form I needed for my English wine bottle timeline I'm happy to aquire it although it took a bite out of my bottle budget.
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[Canadacan]

Nice ancient relic!...I think anything over 300 years has to be ancient!...so did that come off the sea floor? The brown is whats left of the glaze??

 

[goodman1966]

Beautiful Tim ! But we need the Money Shot too(pontil) lol. Mitch

 

[sandchip]

Heck, I don't see a thing wrong with it. A truly beautiful bottle!

 

[fer_de_lance]

circa 1670 Shaft & Globe form with a hardened layer of tan colored residue and devitrification from long term term burial. The pontil mark is somewhat obscured .http://nautarch.tamu.edu/CRL/conservationmanual/File5.htm[attachment=IMG_1125.JPG]

 

[RED Matthews]

Hello again - I just started a note to you and the computer went to a different post of coverage. I think we have had contact to you before. Have you had my newbie write up to read? You pretend to be new, but your bottles are extremely old. I would love to just get this one in my hands to evaluate the making marks on it. Is the finish an applied tooled result? It is now, part of it to have the burial covering on it. I have reviewed some of your posted history and appreciate your coverages. I have a home page that you have possibly reviewed. I have collected, worked in, and traveled the world to visit glass factories and get acquainted with their mold engineering people. I have collected around 2000 glass product objects in my study of how the glass was made before I went to work in the industry. Now at 84 years of living - my daughter will have a big job of selling my collection. I have a neighbor bottle collector that thinks I should write a book about my glass study. I think I am too old for that now though. RED Matthews

 

[fer_de_lance]

Red, we've had several correspondence. I've have a fair knowledge of bottles but I'm always interested in learning more. I hope I speak intelligently about the pieces I post but I may sometimes be coy about it in my initial post in hopes of starting a discussion.All that said, I think I know what this one is. It was posted in New To The Collection mainly to share my joy of getting a long sought after piece.
Tim

 

[RED Matthews]

Well that bottle would fit well here in my bottle den. There are always bottles I like, that I can't have. It would be nice to just study it. It would be difficult to not be able to see it under the surface coating hiding the how it was made marks. This hobby has it's limitations. RED M.