Steve/sewell
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Blade if you even found a half of a green one do you still have it because theyre are none recorded other then the one in the Corning museum which I show pictured here and that is a clear aqua.When the Mckearins,and Kenneth Wilson and all of the the people who compiled the book American Bottles and Flasks and their Ancestory talked about the possibility of there being colors other then various shades of amber all of the olive and dark green bottles which were supposed to be originals turned out to be Clevengers.You have to remember when this book was compiled the Clevengers had already done their dirty work producing thousands of them in the first years 1933 to 1937 in amber. Then came the different colors just after that.Different collectors and authors have raised the possibility of different colors but none have ever surfaced.I wish someone would post their green Whitney Manufactured Booz bottle here at the forum because at that point it would become a bidding war on the part of the glass auction houses to compete to sell it.The day you see a Green Booz bottle at auction is the day the new record established this past year when a Dr. Dyott G-1-114 blue flask sold for I think 110,000.00 will be surpassed in the first day of the two week auction.I cant say for for 100 percent sure that any green 1860 to 1870 Whitney produced Booz bottles were in fact manufactured.I live 6 miles from where they were made.There are an awful lot of glass collectors here in Southern New Jersey.Some real oldtimers in their nineties now all who have Booz bottles in their collections have never seen one in green only in the amber.I have talked to at least twenty different prominent collectors but none of them have ever personally seen a green Booz bottle.They have heard rumors of them but they always turned out to be the Clevenger made versions.You would think in this day and age that one would have sold at auction in the last thirty years. I cant find any record of it.I have seven original Whitney produced Booz Bottles 4 staright roofs and three beveled.The only difference in the color is determined by the thickness of the glass.Thicker glass is always darker,the thinner glass shows up as a pale orangy amber in the corners of the bottle where the glass blower had a hard time getting the glass to stay.
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E.G. Booz aqua cabin? - 
Still is, but a lot calmer.
Both are original also because of two tell tale signs on each bottle.The first sign on the shard is the alignment of the letters on the roof.If you dug the first bottle whole your looking at 2000.00 to 5000.00 depending on the day and auction.You put the second one up for auction and you would have been a rich man no doubt. 
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