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Oct 26, 2011, 12:18 PM
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Big SURPRISE open pontil ink found at old mining camp in Colorado
My brother and I were playin around in a very small mining tent camp in Colorado ,dug into a small depression ,some nice bottles were poppin,but then a first for us !!! .This little open pontiled ink popped up and said HI  It caught me off gaurd with the wide lip , flipped it over and there was the pontil . I know this might not be to exciting for the diggers back east,, but for us ,it is a rare,rare,rare find !! In 30 years of diggin we have never found a whole open pontil in our area of Colorado, In the 1990s I found a iron pontiled decanter,and now this little ink  I'm sure it predates where it was found by at least 30 years. All smiles. HH,HD
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Oct 26, 2011, 12:38 PM
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Re: Big SURPRISE open pontil ink found at old mining camp in Colorado
It's amazing that the lip is undamaged - sweet!!! 
How about showing us pictures of the other bottles?
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Oct 26, 2011, 02:14 PM
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 GA GREY
Re: Big SURPRISE open pontil ink found at old mining camp in Colorado
now that's a sweet find !!!
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Oct 26, 2011, 04:26 PM
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Re: Big SURPRISE open pontil ink found at old mining camp in Colorado
That is a very nice bottle!
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Oct 26, 2011, 04:27 PM
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Re: Big SURPRISE open pontil ink found at old mining camp in Colorado
Holy cow that lip is crazy! Cool find  jgas
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Oct 26, 2011, 08:52 PM
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Re: Big SURPRISE open pontil ink found at old mining camp in Colorado
Saving History! Artifacts or Fossils it's all Good!
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Oct 26, 2011, 10:24 PM
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what hath god wrought
Re: Big SURPRISE open pontil ink found at old mining camp in Colorado
That seems unusual for an ink. I think this could be something else. But it probably is an ink. I can't remember ever seeing one like it.
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Oct 27, 2011, 11:23 AM
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Re: Big SURPRISE open pontil ink found at old mining camp in Colorado
 Originally Posted by sodetraveler
It's amazing that the lip is undamaged - sweet!!!
How about showing us pictures of the other bottles?
 Will be posting pic's from all our summer outtings here in Colorado soon,the ground is about to be frozen 
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Oct 27, 2011, 11:27 AM
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Re: Big SURPRISE open pontil ink found at old mining camp in Colorado
Thanks everyone for the replies !!!!! It was a rush for us to find this,I'm always looking at Jgas's Flask's with green eyes,I have heard of a couple of Pikes Peak flask's being found out in eastern Colo a long time ago. I found a piece of a historical flask in New Mexico once ,buuuuuut
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Oct 27, 2011, 01:07 PM
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Re: Big SURPRISE open pontil ink found at old mining camp in Colorado
Covill figures this ink bottle in his book. It's figure #359. Covill provides dimensions of 1-9/16" D x 2-1/16" H.
Good find!
“A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.”
--Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle) in "The Sign of Four"
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