Who Collects Black Glass?

[Harry Pristis]

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

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Nice, strong strike on that eagle! I have a similar flask with a less-prominent strike.

 

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[sandchip]

That's a beauty, Harry!

 

[bottles123]

Came upon this black glass bottle at an estate sale recently for 4 bucks. Nowhere near as nice/interesting as what some of you have, but it's a start. Looks like an ale bottle from the 1860s-1880s to me, but I could easily be wrong, as I'm very green (only started collecting this summer). Apologies for the poor pictures; someone else took them for me because I'm away from home. If you've seen something like this before please let me know!

 

[Harry Pristis]

I think you're right, an ale bottle from the last quarter of the 19th Century.

 

[sandchip]

Here's a Gardner & Landon Sharon Sulphur Water to keep things rolling.

 

[Harry Pristis]

That's a lovely example, Sandchip!

 

[A2coins]

I do just cant find any wow those are really nice

 

[Blak bart]

Well the holidays have been busy and I've had very little time to break free but I was able to stumble on a nice little bottle dump in the mangroves while detecting.....quickly put the detector down and filled a back pack with as much black glass as I could dig out of the mud !! and wow....22 black glass ales.

its a long haul way down in the lower keys but this dump has a lot of good ones.
I left some wines and other goodies for next time....man this is a good little low tide spot, I cant wait to return !! Plenty of aqua beers here too got a good amount of round bottom ballast bottles also....the down side is it took all day to get 2 back pack loads out of this bush !!

 

[islamoradamark]

just wow what a score

 

[Harry Pristis]

just wow what a score

An old thread for old bottles! What's new? Who has newly acquired black glass to show us? Here's a French truffle bottle:

 

[pepperj]

An old thread for old bottles! What's new? Who has newly acquired black glass to show us? Here's a French truffle bottle:
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You have some amazing glass Harry.
Late to the thread, and kind of in a rush this AM.
This case gin was floating in a water ditch of a mountain ghost town.
The place was built on stilts above the muskeg, and small drainage ditches were through the site.
Recovered 50+ yrs ago.

 

[pepperj]

My favorite, the lip is just so stout, like it should belong to a large bottle.

 

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[Harry Pristis]

Very nice, pepperj!
Here's a favorite, black as can be. That's a 500w photography lamp behind it:

 

[Harry Pristis]

Here's a black snuff jar:

 

[Harry Pristis]

Here's an artifact made from a black glass "fort bottle" as they're known in Florida. Judging by the contour of the scraper, it was taken from the shoulder of a bottle.

 

[glass half fool]

When I first found this bottle about 5 years ago I did not think is was that old .I saw the word Carlsbad embossed on the bottom and started to try to learn something about it At the time I did not know about Treasure Net .I learned some basic info about a pretty nice bottle .Better yet IL found a great place to learn about bottles and all things that are a great way to keep up to all the fun ways to enjoy digging for treasures scattered around the countryside

 

[Harry Pristis]

A Carlsbad bottle . . . can you tell us something about the bottle? I am not familiar with the brand(?) . . . manufacturer(?) . . . place(?) . . . content(?).

Here's one that I favor, one of Dr. Townsend's early sarsaparillas: