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<p>[QUOTE="Collecting Nut, post: 7757052, member: 74863"]Another Roman bottle to add to my collection. This is the photo I took when I removed it from the box. Talk about covered in dirt. Whew, it took hours to soak most of it off.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1329180[/ATTACH] </p><p>After a careful but long soaking, in which I change the water to maintain the same temperature, it now looks like this. Still has some mud and dirt but that’s fine with me. Sometimes that ancient dirt keeps the bottle from splitting or cracking.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1329181[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1329182[/ATTACH] </p><p>It a lightly bluish-green color. About 5” high.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Collecting Nut, post: 7757052, member: 74863"]Another Roman bottle to add to my collection. This is the photo I took when I removed it from the box. Talk about covered in dirt. Whew, it took hours to soak most of it off. [ATTACH=full]1329180[/ATTACH] After a careful but long soaking, in which I change the water to maintain the same temperature, it now looks like this. Still has some mud and dirt but that’s fine with me. Sometimes that ancient dirt keeps the bottle from splitting or cracking. [ATTACH=full]1329181[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1329182[/ATTACH] It a lightly bluish-green color. About 5” high.[/QUOTE]
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