Big SURPRISE open pontil ink found at old mining camp in Colorado

[PikesPeakCharlie]

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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[sodetraveler]

It's amazing that the lip is undamaged - sweet!!!

How about showing us pictures of the other bottles?

 

[blugotti1]

now that's a sweet find !!!

 

[GaRebel1861]

That is a very nice bottle!

 

[jgas]

Holy cow that lip is crazy! Cool find jgas

 

[DarkwaterDiver]

Love it!!! Great Fine.

 

[gleaner1]

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.

 

[PikesPeakCharlie]

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

 

[PikesPeakCharlie]

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

 

[Harry Pristis]

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!