What was your first pontil?

[deepbluedigger]

A Solomons Balm of Gilead from Liverpool. Bought about ten years ago. Until then I collected stoneware, but when I unwrapped the Solomons I fell in love and have never looked back. The stoneware I used to collect has funded my pontils collecting ever since, although that can't last forever.

 

[carobran]

ORIGINAL: Wheelah23

I ain't got one yet, and I sure ain't buyin' one! [8D]

you might not...................but i sure will!![8|][&:][]

 

[countryflames34]

i have recently became interested in antique bottles. i started digging around an area where there was broken glass and be known old bottles statred comin back alive. i have got quite a variety but am having a hard time finding a price on them. some sites give low price some give a high one some times i cant even find what im looking for. i do have some pontil bottles. i have done quite some history looking up of theses bottles and when and who made them.

 

[Plumbata]

The first and only pontil I've dug:

Had to sell it sadly, but the proceeds served me far better than the bottle ever would.

 

[dollarbill]

I belive this was the first one out my first pontil dig American oil.
bill

 

[botlguy]

Back about 1965, in the stone ages of bottle collecting, I was living in Southern California where pontiled bottles are almost never dug or, at that early age, even seen. We were all so new we didn't know anything. We were at a bottle show in San Diego and a collector /dealer from Florida was there and I bought my first open pontiled bottle, a Dutch (I think) Onion with a HUGE tubular pontil scar. I excitedly took it back to my sales table where half my club members were sitting. Most of the guys got all excited while the ladies sat silent. After awhile the club Presidents wife piped up: "What's the big deal about the broken crap?" Needles to say, she was teased about that comment after she became more knowledgeable and built a fine collection of Cathedral Pickles and Pepper Sauce bottles. The onion is long gone.