Big chunk of glass...slag?

[Gunsmoke47]

That is some beautiful glass knapping longneck! Thanks for sharing, Kelley

 

[Bottleman]

If any of you arrowhead makers need some colored chunks of glass, I have some. They are not slag from iron furnaces but just solid chunks of colored glass. I have cobalt, red, lime green, pink, light amber, bubbly clear with a red streak, and Vaseline glass. I stuck a penny in the middle for size comparison. If anyone wants them just send me a PM with an offer.

~~Tom

 

[DIGGER DAVE]

Looks as if I am going to have to give up knitting pot holders at the office. Now I am going to start leaving arrow heads all over the forest floors to keep the newbees guessing .

 

[Picklejar]

I have a bunch of slag glass and shards from the Dyottsville factory site in Kensington. Dug from a layer about 3.5 to 4 feet below surface, I also found glass and pearl buttons, an intact 1/2 pint strapped whiskey flask (clear, not embossed) and some nice english glass shards (Kilner Bros. Glass Co.) The Dyottsville specific stuff is really cool, a blob of porter bottle green, a perfect drop of light blue glass, some pieces of the "philda" embossing, deformed waste portions that were embossed but discarded. This historic "junk" is a nice companion collection to the beautiful bottles produced at this important early american glassworks/social experiment. This whole area is under rapid development and soon digging, let alone any type of access, to the dyottsville site will be barred. Right now its an empty dirt field butting up to the river where people atv. More to come, some photos perhaps. Longtime collector, first time getting around to joining this awesome site!

 

[GuntherHess]

Now I am going to start leaving arrow heads all over the forest floors to keep the newbees guessing

I've been doing that for years.

 

[JOETHECROW]

ORIGINAL: Picklejar

I have a bunch of slag glass and shards from the Dyottsville factory site in Kensington. Dug from a layer about 3.5 to 4 feet below surface, I also found glass and pearl buttons, an intact 1/2 pint strapped whiskey flask (clear, not embossed) and some nice english glass shards (Kilner Bros. Glass Co.) The Dyottsville specific stuff is really cool, a blob of porter bottle green, a perfect drop of light blue glass, some pieces of the "philda" embossing, deformed waste portions that were embossed but discarded. This historic "junk" is a nice companion collection to the beautiful bottles produced at this important early american glassworks/social experiment. This whole area is under rapid development and soon digging, let alone any type of access, to the dyottsville site will be barred. Right now its an empty dirt field butting up to the river where people atv. More to come, some photos perhaps. Longtime collector, first time getting around to joining this awesome site!

Welcome to our helpful but sometimes dysfunctional forum, Picklejar..Looking forward to your postings.

 

[GuntherHess]

This historic "junk" is a nice companion collection to the beautiful bottles produced at this important early american glassworks/social experiment. This whole area is under rapid development and soon digging, let alone any type of access, to the dyottsville site will be barred. Right now its an empty dirt field butting up to the river where people atv. More to come, some photos perhaps.

sounds like cool stuff. I would value that as much or more than the whole bottles.

 

[rockbot]

Interesting repost. I love chunks of glass!

 

[Picklejar]

Hey thanks for the welcoming comments everyone! Sorry for the "s" in dyottville, thats a mistake I make in conversation. As in Dr. Dyott's ville. Anyway, at the glassworks site I recently dug the nice bottom of an olive colored bottle with the blue glass around the pontil scar. Also, a fist sized chunk of dark amber slag and a light blue soda bottom, with "L B" embossed on the it. I have yet to determine who this bottler was.

 

[VTdigger]

Interesting, Thanks for making this topic as I have found 1 peace of simular looking glass and was wondering what it was. Eventully I'll check the place where I found it for more.