Your Best Heartbreaker

[coldwater diver]

I forgot to mention That is a photo of a Flag Flask, A Chapmans Genuine(stoddard Med), and a nice tombstone flask

 

[Atlas]

Here's a heartbreaker of a different kind: In the 70's, I dug a beautiful aqua, super whittled Elliman's Royal Embrocation for Horses, Manufactury Slough England. I sold it and a few others to my Dad who was looking for some things to spruce up his office. I visited him some time later and I see that, using a Ronco-type glasscutter, he had made a PENCIL-HOLDER out of my bottle. *&>@#!... I didn't speak to my Dad for a long time

 

[blobbottlebob]

I'm sorry everyone for your near misses, losses, and pencil holders. Here are three shots from the spot that refuses to grant me a whole example. Basically everything I find there is a crier. But I always go back in the hopes of whole examples. (What was the definition of insanity again?) Actaully, I enjoy this dive. I just wish I'd get some pristine pieces for my collection.

This first shot is all amber quarts from Wisconsin Glass molds (early 1880s). As you can tell from the picture, one was almost in one piece.

 

[blobbottlebob]

Here's some of the aqua glass I'm pulling out. This pile could be bigger but I thought it was enough to get the feel for it.

 

[blobbottlebob]

Lastly, one or two pieces worth special mention. I have never found an embossed soda with a graphite pontil whole while diving. In fact, I almost never come close. This picture shows as close as I've ever been.

 

[blobbottlebob]

If you are interested in the story I wrote about finding these, check out the link to where I posted it earlier. (Scroll down to where you see the red text. That is where it starts).

https://www.antique-bottles.net/forum/5-Matthews-gravitational-glass-stoppers/m-195787/tm.htm

 

[Oldihtractor]

Dug this locally and was Sad to dee it in this condition.. but something is better than nothing.. I belive it is poss. wistar glass

 

[Oldihtractor]

another view

 

[Atlas]

Back in the 70s, this kid (his Dad worked on the highway dept of our town) told me his Dad was on a job site near a new road and mentioned some old bottles. I went up there, saw the freshly bulldozed raised path in the woods and saw glass shards. I then walk down alongside the path. I found two bottles that had been unearthed and then rolled down the 10-foot embankment and were sitting there on the leaves. One was a 12-sided aqua Atwood's Jaundice bitters and the other was a beautiful dark green kick-up turn-mold wine. It had hit a rock and was in three big pieces next to the rock. :-( I wish I had taken the shards but didn't know better then.

 

[PrivyCheese]

Heres my contribution, We dug this yesterday. Was only a hinge mold but love it anyways. It was a quart one. Also found a broken Drakes in the same hole.