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	<description>Information about rare and collectible glass bottles from a member of the glass bottle mold manufacturing industry.</description>
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		<title>An Old Demijohn Container with bottle mysteries!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 05:21:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Red</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have gotten another old wooden molded demijohn in my collection. As an OLD bottle it is a carrier of many bottle mysteries. They include the following points and if anyone has any clues that will help describe the functions and characteristics that caused these markings, I will appreciate hearing from you. If nothing else [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bottle Mold Cavity Half-Leaf Repair Marks</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:46:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Red</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The mold repair half leaf mark was used when a nick occurred in the mold cavity by rough handling.  If in handling, a tool was dropped or the bottom plug was dropped into a cavity, such a nick could have occurred.  When the cavity was damaged it would require either throwing the mold away or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cold Mold Ripple in Glass Bottles</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2008 14:57:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Red</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has always seemed strange to me that people started calling a *Cold Mold Ripple* something different than what it really is. Bottle collectors and sellers use the terms *Whittled *and *Hammered* to define what they see in the glass bottle. I haven’t found it referred to as this in the older books, but maybe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chilling the Cavity of Cast Iron Bottle Molds</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 01:50:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Red</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who, Why, and When I got a job at the Thatcher Glass Co. in Elmira N.Y. to work in their Central Mold Division as an Applications Engineer and management assistant. After being there for about a year, I was invited to attend a meeting of Glass Plant Managers and Production Engineering people. After the meeting, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Key Lock on a Shoulder Seam Bottle Mark Mystery</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 02:51:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Red</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A while back I tried to buy a bottle that had a mold mark on it that I didn’t recognize. The mark was on the shoulder mold seam line, 90 degrees from the shoulder mold parting line seams. So it became a bottle mystery. Unfortunately or untimely I found the solution before I got this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Snuff Bottle Dot Marks Mystery</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:51:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Red</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Through the years of bottle collecting I have never bought a snuff bottle. I have looked at them, fondled them, but never got the bug to buy one. Now I have done it. I have heard and read in eBay listings that the dots on the bottom of these jars, were an indication of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hand Blown Bottles</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 01:52:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Red</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The history of glass making is covered in lots of books. This is not to try to rewrite history. My object is to help the bottle enthusiast understand some of the skills that Early Bottle Makers have had to develop to create the beautiful bottles that they made. My main interest is in the American [...]]]></description>
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