Who Collects Black Glass?

[NJKLAGT]

Here's a Continental mallet, recovered in Belgium (where it may have been produced). It fits the guidelines for English mallets -- a shoulder-height to base-diameter ratio of less than one. IOW, the base diameter is broader than the height of the start of the shoulder. It has a rough glass pontil scar.

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Digging a bottle of this age and in this condition would put me on the ground, and I envy anyone who has!

 

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[NJKLAGT]

I'll just share this one again, from May 2017. I loved finding this one down in a trench that I had been to many times before, but sticking out of the debris after a heavy wet winter had moved everything around. I had assumed that it was English and from a little before the turn of the century but got home and found out it's American and earlier. So it was a nice surprise bottle! I'll also share this whiskey that I dug in June 2015, I like this one.

 

[epackage]

Black glass Paterson N.J. style, blood red when lit up, being sent out for restoration in October...

 

[sandchip]

What? Wow. How does this thing even exist? I'd like to hear more about this one, Chip. Do you know how it was found or anything?

It came out of a New Orleans privy about 15 years ago. There are a couple more examples out there that I know of. There's another variant that's embossed "Internal Remedy for Rheumatism" on the front panel instead of "Purifier", and only very slightly more common. There's also a smooth-based square Purifier known as well. Appreciate the "Wow", man.

 

[Blak bart]

Black glass Paterson N.J. style, blood red when lit up, being sent out for restoration in October...

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That's very cool epackage.....I've never seen one light up red like that !! Thanks for sharing.

 

[Harry Pristis]

I suspect there's more black glass to show off. Doesn't everyone have images of their bottles for insurance purposes?

 

[glass half fool]

Here is the only black glass I ever found .When I dug it I thought at first it was a modern wine bottle . After I cleaned it up and looked at the bottom it says Carlsbad LS I started doing some research .And that is how I found out about TreasureNet .I signed up because I had been digging for a lot of years but never really knew all that much about what i had found . TreasureNet is a place to go to learn about everything that involves old items and their history

 

[epackage]

That's very cool epackage.....I've never seen one light up red like that !! Thanks for sharing.

He sold Cherry Beer, so we believe that's why he used this color...

 

[A2coins]

Thanks for sharing those are freakin awesome I wont show my display case to embarrassed great bottles you have. Tommy

 

[Harry Pristis]

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Here's a large demijohn, probably produced in Stoddard, NH.

 

[Harry Pristis]

Here's another:

 

[Blak bart]

Wooo hooo got one harry !! Nothing super special to most but special to me !! First black glass find since the spring for me. I only lost a little blood retrieving it from the oyster beds under the city docks in Beaufort NC.

 

[Blak bart]

heres the little mini gin I found in the spring in the bahamas....I already posted it, but thought it should also be here on your black glass thread harry !! Heres my patinaed black glass cryer from the same spot in the bahamas....i kept it anyway until i find a whole one with a patina like this.

 

[RustyRelics]

Kinda black...okay, it's greenish yellow, but close enough.

 

[Harry Pristis]

This is one of a few historical flasks on my shelf:

 

[RustyRelics]

So Harry, how old would this one be? Smooth bottom, very thin walls.

 

[Harry Pristis]

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So Harry, how old would this one be? Smooth bottom, very thin walls.

Without a closeup of the lip finish, I'd guess early 20th Century. It's an interesting bottle, either pre-WWI or. if American-made, pre-Prohibition. Can you provide some provenance?

 

[RustyRelics]

Without a closeup of the lip finish, I'd guess early 20th Century. It's an interesting bottle, either pre-WWI or. if American-made, pre-Prohibition. Can you provide some provenance?

I'll get a closeup of the lip tomorrow. It is American, pre-pro, (I thought Civil War era or 1870's, but I'm no expert on gin bottles). My grandfather bought it at a Pennsylvania estate auction, Schuylkill county, in 1990 something.

 

[sandchip]

Here's a Willington eagle pint, one of very few historical flasks that I have.

 

[devldog]

That is one Nice looking bottle. Congrat's.