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)