The Confederation… of Toilet Hole Adventurists of the Southern States

OK, well for those you who may have felt slighted by the one unlisted pontiled soda covering 2 months, here’s another UNLISTED Baltimore Porter to fill the gap. And it answers the supposition of the CR reference to the yellow green stubby mold. This is the kind of stuff that’s hard to catalog in a database listing, which is why I pop it up here at the CONFED.

So without further delay, I’m posting the images and the text from CR in the email they were attached to. It is the 4th bottle from the left that is the new one.

Wil,
Saw your post on The Confederation site about the porters. I’m attaching some pictures of 4 porters from my collection.
First is a black glass Stubby type with the Cole porter lip. The base is smooth and kicked up concentric rings and no evidence of a traditional pontil (iron or roughness) the base edge sports 16 evenly spaced dots.
Second is my yellow green porter with the Cole porter lip this one also has a deep kickup but has an iron pontil with no remaining iron. I have yet to see this mold in any other colors. It does not have the base edge dots of the olive green example. And is slightly larger.
Third is a typical “high shoulder” in puce for size and mold comparison with a typical iron pontil.
Fourth is another porter mold that I have. It is similar to the high shoulder mold except the shoulder has more of a curve to it. It also has an iron pontil and as you can see in the base pictures there is a mold defect at 12:00. It is also a very dark puce.

So another Federal Hill Porter emerges in 2011.

While not exactly two seperate Featured Pontiled Sodas (since Chris R.’s yellow green stubby is pictured here) it is still worth comparing the black glass examples, especially in this pic which shows the color difference between these two examples.

So the little stubby is known, even though the black variant is ex. rare.

But I do believe his older brother, Big Hoss, is a newcomer to the web. Both of these examples feature deep conical completely refired smooth pontils with concentric ridges following the circumference of the pontil all the way into the center tip (However C.R.’s is iron pontiled).

And they both have the circa 1849 C. A. Cole Porter style top, which runs about 1845-49.

Both of these early Federal Hill Porter’s had severe damage, but both are extremely rare, and were definately worth repairing.