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)

Lime Geeen Eagle spinning now. Light Sapphire Baltimore porter bought from R.K. next to normal color (same mold). Black COUGHLAN lip repair. Crazy color stubby from Ralph (Tekesta, FL). Baltimore WHEELER top dip mold rum, late 1830′s.

Each bottle in photos below has undergone a medium to major sized repair.

Both the digital camera and image editing software had additional brightness applied in order to show these darker colors on your monitor. Click once to enlarge an image, then click again for full-size.

While the positioning of the bottles is complimentary to the repairs, the improved display-ability should be evident in the photos.

In second pic you are looking directly at deep moss green porter lip repair with epoxy in front and in-making vertical bubble showing in glass from back side of lip. In the next post you see the glass and bubble view in front and epoxy repair in back (so you are seeing both sides of lip repair in 2 separate pics).

Three bottles shown have lip damage, one has a substantial hole in the shoulder.

All are RARE Federal Hill Glassworks products, circa 1848-1851.

This is the oversized half pint 3 pt. mold (center) with C. A Cole style rounded double taper (circa 1848) which dwarfs the C.A. Cole porter at left. In fact, the top looks more like an oversized WHEELER’S BERLIN BITTERS style top used around the same time.

To the right is its smaller stubby companion piece with same top and refired conical pontil.

In the first pic, you are looking directly at a 1 by 1/2 inch shoulder hole repair to the far left, with horizontal mold seam molded into the resin repair. Along the mold seam from far left you see 3/4 inch of epoxy at seam tapering elliptically outwards toward top and bottom. May look slightly darker and glossier in photo.

Silicone putty was molded against the shoulder just to right of the hole, them slid left to cover hole and taped over it-small slit punched through silicone flap allowed resin to be squirted into hole from below with no inside drip, cured with center of gravity pulling epoxy into mold flap.

In the second pic, the repair is at left but still hidden, though the olive amber color shows through. In either pic it would have been difficult to hide the gaping shoulder hole, but the direct head on view of the repair is a little dark with light behind it and a little light in reflected light.

As always click the little thumb once to enlage-twice to super size.