Who Collects Black Glass?

[Harry Pristis]

Thank you, timeinabottle, for reminding me of this thread. Perhaps there are new black glass finds to be shared. Here's an interesting master ink bottle. It appears that this bottle was blown in a 3-piece mold which was an ale bottle mold doing double-duty. That's what I surmise, anyway. What do you think?

 

[timeandabottle]

These 3 are new to me. I’m a novice to this style. Why are they called black glass when they aren’t black?

 

[timeandabottle]

Thank you, timeinabottle, for reminding me of this thread. Perhaps there are new black glass finds to be shared. Here's an interesting master ink bottle. It appears that this bottle was blown in a 3-piece mold which was an ale bottle mold doing double-duty. That's what I surmise, anyway. What do you think?

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I’m not educated enough in this style if bottle to give a good opinion! It certainly has the shape of an ale bottle though. It’s sexy for sure!

 

[Harry Pristis]

These 3 are new to me. I’m a novice to this style. Why are they called black glass when they aren’t black?

Some glass IS opaque black or nearly so. By convention, the term has been expanded to include (usually) olive-green and olive-amber glass which is less opaque. Black glass, in collector parlance, usually refers to 18th and 19th Century glass with an olive-green or olive-amber cast. Even within this blanket definition, there are extensions such as less opaque "black-amber, black-green, even black-amethyst.

Examples are easy, though exceptions are not rare. Here is a black-amethyst bottle that is near-opaque . . . the light behind it is from a 500watt photographic bulb.

This bottle is near-opaque black glass:

 

[timeandabottle]

Harry, I'm glad you post pics of some of the most amazing bottles you have in your collection. If anything, it gives me greater motivation to keep hunting and digging. Your website is pretty amazing too and I highly recommend it.

I’d like the link to that site if you’re willing to share please.

 

[Harry Pristis]

I’d like the link to that site if you’re willing to share please.

The link to my web-site appears in the signature area of each of my posts.

 

[sandchip]

These 3 are new to me. I’m a novice to this style. Why are they called black glass when they aren’t black?

Great lineup, Time!

 

[Mudbug]

Most of you have probably seen it, but I'll throw it on to keep things rolling. "Washington - Purifier - M.A. Micklejohn, N.O." Pontil's a little weak but we can't have everything.

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Most of you have probably seen it, but I'll throw it on to keep things rolling. "Washington - Purifier - M.A. Micklejohn, N.O." Pontil's a little weak but we can't have everything.

Very, very nice piece. Highly prized bottle from my neck of the woods. He was only in business for a couple years and the bottles for the "cure" sure are nice. I dug the M.A.Micklejohn Gout and Rheumatism O.P. version back in the 1980's in a privy full of 1880's hutchinson type bottles. I couldn't believe my eyes when it rolled out. Musta been in grandma's medicine chest and she decided to toss it in the hole. Probably went "bad". L O L

 

[sandchip]

Very, very nice piece. Highly prized bottle from my neck of the woods. He was only in business for a couple years and the bottles for the "cure" sure are nice. I dug the M.A.Micklejohn Gout and Rheumatism O.P. version back in the 1980's in a privy full of 1880's hutchinson type bottles. I couldn't believe my eyes when it rolled out. Musta been in grandma's medicine chest and she decided to toss it in the hole. Probably went "bad". L O L

Do you have a picture of the bottle you found? I've heard of the Purifier and the Internal Remedy for Rheumatism, but not one with Gout. Would love to see a picture of it.

 

[Harry Pristis]

I am fond of these flared wide-mouth jars from the early 1800s. The center jar is German, I believe. The left and right jars are French. The center jar is too light yellowish-green to be considered "black glass" IMO. The other two are definitely black glass.