Your Best Heartbreaker

[Wheelah23]

...Not lookin' so good.

Luckily, its older brother survived... He'll be seen again in the next American Glass Gallery auction.

 

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ORIGINAL: Wheelah23

Hxtal candidate if you ask me...

 

[Wheelah23]

At least then it'd display right... Who does that sort of thing? I have no idea how it works, but it would certainly make my colored ink collection look a lot better...

 

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ORIGINAL: Wheelah23

At least then it'd display right... Who does that sort of thing? I have no idea how it works, but it would certainly make my colored ink collection look a lot better...

Youtube it, it's for the profesional if you ask me...

 

[Poison_Us]

Our best heartbreaker? It was the day we sold this...

Still feel ill when I think about it. Was our pride and joy of our collection.

 

[bottlekid76]

Wow, those are heartbreakers James! I'm looking to find a cobalt Cairns with or without damage. Keep me in mind if you ever decide to do something with it. []

~Tim

 

[lexdigger]

Yes, that would be a Prime candidate for restoration. As long as the crack has an opening (you can FEEL it with a fingernail) they can use color matched resins to Bond and Stabilize the crack. Most of the better artists can hide 90+ percent of the refraction making the crack virtually invisible. The BEST restoration artists use UV Enhancement (because the work they do is so good it can easily be undetected). I would look into it if I was planning on Keeping and Displaying the item.

 

[Wheelah23]

ORIGINAL: lexdigger

Yes, that would be a Prime candidate for restoration. As long as the crack has an opening (you can FEEL it with a fingernail) they can use color matched resins to Bond and Stabilize the crack. Most of the better artists can hide 90+ percent of the refraction making the crack virtually invisible. The BEST restoration artists use UV Enhancement (because the work they do is so good it can easily be undetected). I would look into it if I was planning on Keeping and Displaying the item.

I'm interested... Know any names? I'd love to be able to see this bottle restored to its former glory...

 

[lexdigger]

There are a LOT of restoration artists out there. I know that each one specializes in an area (glass, pottery, etc). I have seen some work that Dr. Gomer (Thornton Pyles) has done and it is exceptional. He mainly focuses on Native American artifacts, but I believe he will restore Anything he feels he is capable of. It would be money well spent!

 

[bottlecrazy]

Hope this works - first attempt at posting pictures.

Here's a sad sight - casualties of my most recent move:

Busted paper-thin 8-sided pontil puff
Busted neck on cute miniature
Smashed Petzold's
Smashed green Townsend's
Smashed "Krieger Baltimore" whiskey