The Confederation… of Toilet Hole Adventurists of the Southern States

This stately porter has class for an unembossed bottle. It is hammered with whittle, and features a single taper top, in that light to medium yellow green coloration that most of the Baltimore torpedos were blown in. This example also has clusters of unmelted sand dripping down the neck and into the shoulder. It was fairly scratched, but cleaned up to a nice shaded color, a little less yellow green and a hair more blue green than later examples-especially where it lightens up in the upper shoulder. (click images twice to super-size)

This example also had an inch long edge of lip chip, which I repaired. Some of the chipping discoloration appears through and beneath the epoxy. Not perfect, but a big improvement. Rare pontil treatment, with iron oxides over a ring of glass chunks-literally an iron over scar pontil treatment. An early example, dating to the 1840′s, though the mold continued well into the 1850′s. This is a Baltimore glass house product, though unmarked — probably Federal Hill. It is the same mold as several dug in Baltimore, though none with this pontil style.

$85.00 (plus $9.50 S.H. & I. to U.S. destinations only)

Here we have a mint, pontiled DUFFY porter in a nice, pastel, greenish aqua color. Full ring shaped iron pontil. If you don’t have this mold, or this color, it is the best possible example you will ever find. Never cleaned, never in the ground. Gem Mint!

Here are some pics of the gogeous MONJU from the Daphne (Mobile) Bottle Show.

As with all my thumbnails, click once to enlarge, then click again on the next page to supersize. These are high resolution images and in most browsers a 4th click will expand the image even more.

As stated in the show report, it is the best condition example of the 6 or 7 I’ve seen over the last couple decades. Looks like it was returned and reused maybe once or twice, then discarded, as there’s no base wear, no chips or nicks, no case wear and only the most minor remaining wear marks and light scratches in a few spots-overall about perfect plus, displaying as near mint.

This one was loaded and unloaded 4 times to prevent over-cleaning, but no cutter was ever used on the outside glass at all, which retains it’s original glass texture. A pinch of cutter was used on the 2nd inside tumble to remove a little remaining cloudy stain patch.

The bottle does not appear cleaned (and certainly not over cleaned) .

You can read more about the origin of the bottle in the MOBILE show report.

This bottle has been sold.