Your Best Heartbreaker

[Bixby Bill]

Two jars of some interesting tops, including the top to the green Tippecanoe and remains of a cobalt umbrella ink.

 

[Bixby Bill]

The back side.

 

[kungfufighter]

Thanks for posting the pics Bill!

 

[kungfufighter]

Is it me or does the sunburst top look like it could be a GVIII-3 (ostensibly Coventry) or perhaps a 5, 5A or 7 (typically attributed to Pitkin)?!

 

[Bixby Bill]

The sunburst looks like a GVIII-3 or 5. It has the nice light yellow-amber that you see a lot of the Pitkin style flasks in, but then again, those were also made in Coventry, Glastenbury, and probably Willington also. Willington started in 1815, and these 3 glass houses weren`t that far apart, and in 1828 Gilbert, Turner & Co. bought both the Willington and Coventry glass houses, so those two I`m sure shared molds and probably glass blowers too. It`s too bad that more isn`t known about what Willington produced, they were in business for 57 years and probably made bottles that we`ll never realize were made there. Someday when and if the CT Glass Museum gets on it`s feet, I`ll be donating these pieces to them so hopefully they and the fact that they are from Willington will never be lost.

 

[CALDIGR2]

I'm a HUGE failure in the "crier" dept 'cause I have never saved any. Busted goes back in the pit, no matter how rare.

 

[tigue710]

Fresh out of the ground today, you can just make out out in the picture that this is green, what you cant see is its loaded with bubbles and is a vibrant olive forest green that passes light easily.

https://i1195.photobucket.com/albums/aa396/tigue710k/034028d9.jpg

 

[downeastdigger]

Wow, what a bunch of killer criers on this thread !

Here's my murderers row, all glue backs

 

[downeastdigger]

blurry pic of a John Clarke New York, and a Binningers

 

[downeastdigger]

Couple of new england meds, a Smiths green mt renovater from Vt, and a Leavitt cylinder