Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1879 — Antiques. [ARTICLE]

Antiques.

Modern pottery boiled in oil and buried in wood ashes soon becomes very old. Ivories boiled in honey and hung up the chimney quickly become venerable antiques. Glass buried in a stable becomes iridescent, and many a bottle of the time of Charles 11., fished out of the Thames, the water of which has wonderful chemical properties, has been sold as old Roman glass.