Your best find of 2004

[Trying not to break it]

hi everyone, this is my favorite. i dug it last year. C.L.G. Co. i love the color; thanks for looking, rhona

 

[warith]

I reckon I can now start a "Best Find for 2005". Check this one out! The best part is that it's from Newtown (the area that I mainly collect bottles from). To the best of my knowledge there are almost certainly less than 10 known and perhaps under 5! It's a "Sharpes Patent" I believe.

 

[Tony14]

Very nice set of codds warith I would love to have those.

 

[IRISH]

Top Item Warith [] , I've seen one of them before but that's the only other one I know of.
It's a patent I haven't yet got the Sharps patent, do you know of any other companys who used them than your one and Chester lodge cordials ?

 

[warith]

Thanks Tony14, I'd also love to have a pair of these (my photo is perhaps a little confusing; it's only one bottle, but the front and back).

Irish: I only know of the Wilce and the Chester Lodge ones, but I've heard rumours that other inner-west companies used them (perhaps unfounded? I've never seen photo's of them). I've only seen one of thes eonce previously, of course it was mint! After a polish mine will be nearly mint, but it will never be mint. Was the one you saw previously also ice-blue?

I found a broken 12oz Chester Lodge on the same trip (also their Sharps patent), perhaps I'll find an intact one soon! They are a nicer bottle being a pictorial bottle.

 

[preditor]

Whiskey, i was told by some of you when i origionally posted it that it was over 100 years oldthere are no seams because it was spun in the mold. but there are a lot of air bubbles.
Preditor[8D]

 

[preditor]

close up of the label
Preditor[8D]

 

[preditor]

there's nothing really spectacular about this one but because the color its one of my favorites. its about 10 to 12 inches tall.
Preditor[8D]

 

[baltbottles]

Here is a pic of the large pontiled snuff i dug from a huge circa 1790s privy in the middle of downtown in febuary of 2004. It washed up mint no stain or wear just good glass. Its open pontiled and due to the light clear color of the glass and the form i believe this to be an early American made bottle and very probably Baltimore in origin. I dug more valuable bottles in 2004 but this is still one of my favorites.

Chris

 

[madman]

hey rhona do you have any info on the clg co ive got acouple embossed with that mark thanks mike