Featured Example: The Puce Carter's Spanish Mixture
The Puce Carter's occurs in the earlier mold (no apostrophe in "Carters"), is iron pontiled, and exhibits a taller than normal lower bevel in the applied top.
Having attended many early Baltimore Antique Bottle shows from 1982 onward, I would say that I have probably seen 35 to 45 Carter's in shades of deep green and olive ambers to pure black glass examples, but had never seen a true puce variant until now.
This example is best described as being apricot puce in the shoulder area, shading to a deep strawberry puce in the lower half. In certain lighting conditions with a white or off-white backdrop, the stronger reddish tones in the bottom half of the bottle can be seen as a swirling arc of deeper puce striations which encircle the bottle from top to bottom. But in normal sunlight, the shading appears even. Click the image above or at right to see more.
I acquired another CARTERS in the same mold, with the same top and in almost exactly the same color. I would be willing to trade that bottle for a colored, pontiled Baltimore soda or beer of equal stature, or a CARTERS in a color that I don't have.
I know of a deep amethyst puce example, and of one other puce example having been discovered in a Charleston, S.C. privy (unfortunately, that one was struck and run clean through by a probe during the first stages of discovery).
I am still interested in obtaining the medium grass green variant, as well as a tobacco amber example, and an olive yellow example (if one does exist) or any other color I currently do not have.
