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Any more information on these two bottles? - 8/31/2010 4:56:16 PM    Wheelah23 Posts: 3648 Joined: 8/9/2010 From: Glen Ridge, New Jersey Status: offline This is a crown topped bottle my neighbor gave me. It's ultra crude, but I think it's machine made. The mold seams are very strong at the bottom, but faint at the top, but they are there at the top of the lip. It's got a crapload of bubbles and ripply things. It's slightly greenish, but mostly clear. Attachment (1) Post #: 1

RE: Any more information on these two bottles? - 8/31/2010 4:56:56 PM    Wheelah23 Posts: 3648 Joined: 8/9/2010 From: Glen Ridge, New Jersey Status: offline The base is pretty flat, with a six or a nine in the center. Attachment (1) (in reply to Wheelah23) Post #: 2

RE: Any more information on these two bottles? - 8/31/2010 4:58:09 PM    Wheelah23 Posts: 3648 Joined: 8/9/2010 From: Glen Ridge, New Jersey Status: offline It has "1205" embossed on the heel. I assume that's mold information, not useful. You can see some bubbles here. Attachment (1) (in reply to Wheelah23) Post #: 3

RE: Any more information on these two bottles? - 8/31/2010 4:59:06 PM    Wheelah23 Posts: 3648 Joined: 8/9/2010 From: Glen Ridge, New Jersey Status: offline Here's a drawing of the top, showing where the mold seams are. Hopefully it can shed some light on how it was made. Attachment (1) (in reply to Wheelah23) Post #: 4

RE: Any more information on these two bottles? - 8/31/2010 4:59:49 PM    Wheelah23 Posts: 3648 Joined: 8/9/2010 From: Glen Ridge, New Jersey Status: offline Last picture of this bottle, showing a strange ripply part on the neck. Attachment (1) (in reply to Wheelah23) Post #: 5

RE: Any more information on these two bottles? - 8/31/2010 5:00:53 PM    Wheelah23 Posts: 3648 Joined: 8/9/2010 From: Glen Ridge, New Jersey Status: offline I think this is the coolest bottle though. It has part of the label. The label reads: "ALCHOHOL/Absolute Ethyl ALCHOHOL 94.9% by volume/Red Cross Pharmacy/Phone 29B/231 Central Ave/St. Petersburg, Florida". It's numbered up one side with numbers 1-31. These are volume measurements, I'm assuming.  Attachment (1) < Message edited by Wheelah23 -- 8/31/2010 5:01:06 PM > (in reply to Wheelah23) Post #: 6

RE: Any more information on these two bottles? - 8/31/2010 5:01:51 PM    Wheelah23 Posts: 3648 Joined: 8/9/2010 From: Glen Ridge, New Jersey Status: offline Here's a view of the lip. It's tooled, I showed the tooling marks as well as I could. Attachment (1) (in reply to Wheelah23) Post #: 7

RE: Any more information on these two bottles? - 8/31/2010 5:02:42 PM    Wheelah23 Posts: 3648 Joined: 8/9/2010 From: Glen Ridge, New Jersey Status: offline Here's a view from the top. Notice it's not symmetrical. One side's corners are beveled (I think that's the term), while the other side 's are rounded. The top left corner has the measurements, while the opposite side has the label. Attachment (1) (in reply to Wheelah23) Post #: 8

RE: Any more information on these two bottles? - 8/31/2010 5:04:07 PM    Wheelah23 Posts: 3648 Joined: 8/9/2010 From: Glen Ridge, New Jersey Status: offline Here's the base. It's embossed with "W. B. M. Co.", which I found out stands for the Western Bottle Manufacturing Company. They were in business from 1901-1930, but this bottle is BIM. So, assuming the company adopted the ABM shortly after it came out, I can date this bottle to within a few years.  Attachment (1) (in reply to Wheelah23) Post #: 9

RE: Any more information on these two bottles? - 8/31/2010 5:04:51 PM    Wheelah23 Posts: 3648 Joined: 8/9/2010 From: Glen Ridge, New Jersey Status: offline Here's a closeup of the label. Attachment (1) (in reply to Wheelah23) Post #: 10

RE: Any more information on these two bottles? - 8/31/2010 5:05:22 PM    Wheelah23 Posts: 3648 Joined: 8/9/2010 From: Glen Ridge, New Jersey Status: offline Numbers on the beveled edge. Attachment (1) (in reply to Wheelah23) Post #: 11

RE: Any more information on these two bottles? - 8/31/2010 5:07:13 PM    Wheelah23 Posts: 3648 Joined: 8/9/2010 From: Glen Ridge, New Jersey Status: offline That's the last of the pictures I took. Any idea about values on these? Any more information on the bottles? I had to post this again because I didn't put it in the right forum before. I forgot to put this in the other post. In the top view, you can see that it says "3xxxII" on the shoulder. What could this mean? < Message edited by Wheelah23 -- 8/31/2010 5:09:16 PM > (in reply to Wheelah23) Post #: 12

RE: Any more information on these two bottles? - 8/31/2010 6:26:55 PM    cyberdigger Posts: 11901 Joined: 11/29/2008 From: I 195 @ US 9, NJ USA Status: online quote: it says "3xxxII" on the shoulder. What could this mean? It means 32 ounces.. the weird symbol stands for ounce(s) and the numbers are in Roman numerals.. the measurement marks down the side of it are interesting, very fine increments.. still probably not worth more than 20 bucks. The beer bottle is a junker, not to put too fine a point on it... (in reply to Wheelah23) Post #: 13

RE: Any more information on these two bottles? - 8/31/2010 8:57:39 PM    Wheelah23 Posts: 3648 Joined: 8/9/2010 From: Glen Ridge, New Jersey Status: offline 20 dollars is more than I expected. I plan on keeping it for now, though. It and the other one are the only (whole) old bottles I have. I understand the beer one is not worth anything. It's just BORING. No identification=boring. I understand what you guys mean now by age =/= value. (in reply to cyberdigger) Post #: 14

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