A few of us got together the other night to have steaks and a photo shoot of a few fifths. The Circle Cutter lineups were put together in the window while we thought about all the bottles we are going to dig this season...
The bottles change colors all afternoon in the natural light.
Looking at the 4 on the bottom right... the one on the far right, 2nd from right, 4th from right.. all dug in Ut. and in different locations... east, west, south.
They are all the "tall mold", the bodies are about 3/16" taller from the base to the mold seam above the circle.
They are all the "tall mold", the bodies are about 3/16" taller from the base to the mold seam above the circle.
Reds and yellows really stand out at sunset.
A few green ones have been found in UT.
We have Jewels... second from right.
All across the top of the crown on this beauty.
FANTASTIC GLASS!
ReplyDeleteAlso, I have NEVER seen such an unusual method of securing bottles to a shelf or window sill. Quite a feat of enginerring!
Dale M.
Thanks for a great posting and sharing your photo shoot.
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Yeah, what are those things in the tops of the bottles? Heck, none of mine have so much as "earthquake putty". They just sit on the shelf plain an day.
ReplyDeleteFantastico ! Colors, Jewels, Strikes.....what more could you ask.
ReplyDeleteI think the springy things on top of those fifths & flasks could be buffer tubes from M-16's - What do you think OldCutters?
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very nice pictures of some really RARE glass, thanks for posting them......Andy
ReplyDeleteAnd with that much value, I can see the need for the elaborate safety mountings, especially if ya are in a quake zone...Andy
ReplyDeleteYeah, Rick, they do resemble those things. EBR buffer tubes and springs? Stranger things have happened. Is western Utah as shaky as Cal?
ReplyDeleteA little info please on the earthquake mounts? A "do-it-yourself" instructional on how to make these could be the best and most useful thread ever posted here. After all, one of our main goals as collectors and diggers is preservation, right?
ReplyDeleteI will get some specs and "trial and error" history from the creators. They are pretty easy to work with. The non skid material for the base 'flask shelf' seems to work well. The three prong base holders you see for the fifths look awkward, but getting the bottles up in the air makes them light up like a light bulb in that natural light.
ReplyDeleteThe 3 pronged base support system looks shaky and awkward all right. The springy things are the only thing keeping the bottle standing upright as it would fall without it...earthquake or not.
ReplyDeleteIt is the "error" of the trial and error that would be interesting to know about...usually "error" when it comes to glass involves a loud crashing sound.
The most amazing system of securing bottles I ever witnessed was the great Bill Anderson's method of glass shelves floating in mid air completely impervious to any tremor. The bottles were secured to said shelves with putty, but the entire system was like some magic trick!
Dale M.
LOL Yeah, it was "Magic" wasn't it? Pretty ingenious. Bill is a mining engineer, so a design like his makes perfect sense. I have no idea how he did that, though.
ReplyDeletethe three prongy things sorta look like what the jar doctor uses on his stopples for cleaning bottles, just springier and out of clear plastic?...Andy
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