Who Collects Ink Bottles?

[Tnmountains]

Harry

You always take the best pictures. They look ready for publication. Very nice ink wells.

 

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[curbdiggercarl57]

Beautiful inks, all! I just dug two this week, and I plan to write a short story of the finds that I've recently dug, just been busy condo hunting. Here's a nice emerald green "Carter's 1897" I just dug. Found it with a pretty teal colored Carter, as well as two other bottles.
Carl

 

[scratcher]

Beautiful inks, all! I just dug two this week, and I plan to write a short story of the finds that I've recently dug, just been busy condo hunting. Here's a nice emerald green "Carter's 1897" I just dug. Found it with a pretty teal colored Carter, as well as two other bottles.
Carl

Nice dog!

 

[curbdiggercarl57]

Beautiful inks, all! I just dug two this week, and I plan to write a short story of the finds that I've recently dug, just been busy condo hunting. Here's a nice emerald green "Carter's 1897" I just dug. Found it with a pretty teal colored Carter, as well as two other bottles.
Carl

Nice dog!

Nope, cat!

 

[Harry Pristis]

Those Carter's cone inks are so colorful!

Definitely a cat, dogs don't have vertical pupils, do they?

I have neither dog nor cat . . . I have an Amazon parrot. He has managed to break a couple of good bottles over the past 25 years despite my best efforts.

Carl, how did you train your cat to stay off your bottle shelves?

 

[BuckleBoy]

No kidding about the cats on the bottle shelves. I lost a good bottle or two due to pets over the years.

Harry, I'd love to know how you take and edit your photos. Perhaps a new thread is the place to discuss it...but I'd love some tips. Do you photoshop out the the backgrounds and do a white fill? How do you backlight? What wattage? etc...


Thanks again for sharing such great examples with all of us.


Regards,



Buckles

 

[whitesPA]

i like ink bottles but only ever found 1 in 10 years of detecting

 

[gleaner1]

Amber cone with "x", dump find.

 

[Harry Pristis]

Here's a golden amber cone ink. This one has no markings on the base, like the cobalt example. The third cone ink, the olive-green one, has the CARTER'S embossing on the bottom.

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[Tnmountains]

Wow they kinda have the color of those old glass insulators. Comfortable colors they are . Nice inks guys

 

[gleaner1]

Purchased today at an estate sale, has a bit of sickness on outside but overall very nice. You never know what you'll find.

 

[DigginThePast]

Great ink bottles guys. Thanks for sharing.

 

[glassrelics]

I'll bite on this one! GREAT INKS HARRY! I dug this one about 2 years ago from a 1850's era privy. It is a Hover INK from Philada!

 

[kieser sousa/rip]

I found this Colombian ink awhile back....shame it has a hole in it.

 

[Tnmountains]

That broke is a real heart beaker.

 

[kieser sousa/rip]

That broke is a real heart beaker.

Yeah .....but still pretty nice. I should go back and see if there are any more.....and mabey find the piece that was broken off.When I found it it was lying on top of the ground but I dident think to look for the broken piece.....to busy diggin coins and stuff.

 

[Tnmountains]

Harry
Did you have a post at one time telling how you shot your photographs ? It seems like I saw it once. Thanks. Have enjoyed your topic and post.
TnMountains

 

[Harry Pristis]

Harry
Did you have a post at one time telling how you shot your photographs ? It seems like I saw it once. Thanks. Have enjoyed your topic and post.
TnMountains

Yes, I think I did post something about my set-up. I've made a manual search and used the newly-available search feature here, but I cannot come up with it. I'll post something soon.

 

[gleaner1]

Harry offers good photo advice in my "Nice Stoddard Flask?" post. This might be what Harry remembers....

 

[Harry Pristis]

Harry offers good photo advice in my "Nice Stoddard Flask?" post. This might be what Harry remembers....

Yep! 'Tis what I was trying to find. Thanks 'gleaner1'!