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Found Prohibition-era salesmen's sample liquor bottle c... - 10/1/2003 12:35:48 PM    pattisch   Posts: 2 Joined: 10/1/2003 Status: offline Hello, everyone. My boyfriend isn't a bottle collector (yet!) but he is a pottery collector, so collecting is in his blood and he has a good eye for valuable things. At a flea market last weekend, he came across a rather interesting collection of salesman's sample liquor bottles (miniatures). There are at least 125 of them, I'd guess, mostly from American companies, but a few from Hungarian and Polish companies. Most are in excellent condition, still full, with the stamps that go over the top intact. A few are half-full or even empty, but almost 100 percent of them still carry all of their original labeling. I believe they might be historically significant because they're all dated sometime in the 1930s, and most are dual stamped with a pre-Prohibition Canadian stamp and a post-Prohibition American stamp as well. All of the American bottles were bottled in federal bond. We spent the weekend finding the right way to clean them up, and then cleaning them up, and they're amazing. Can anybody tell me roughly the value range of this type of collectable? Where's the best place for us to determine the individual value of each of the bottles? Where is the best place for us to see who might be interested in buying the whole collection? I'm a journalist and I did go online and find some of the bottle collector's sites, but wanted to ask those of you who are the real experts where you think the best place to find these answers is. Thanks so much for your help, Patti Post #: 1

RE: Found Prohibition-era salesmen's sample liquor bott... - 10/1/2003 12:57:35 PM    Guest are these bottles marked as sales samples or might they just be single serving size? i have a few of these type bottles from about 1900-1920. and have always thought they were just miniature single serving size. diggerjeff (in reply to pattisch)   Post #: 2

RE: Found Prohibition-era salesmen's sample liquor bott... - 10/1/2003 1:20:50 PM    Guest pattisch Welcome to Antique-Bottles.Net ! Miniatures are a real specialist area and the centre of knowledge is the world famous Midwest Miniature Bottle Collectors' or MMBC as they like to be known. I would suggest that you make contact with them and make sure you have some nice digital pictures of individual bottles to send them. Their website is here here. (in reply to pattisch)   Post #: 3

RE: Found Prohibition-era salesmen's sample liquor bott... - 10/1/2003 6:34:19 PM    pattisch   Posts: 2 Joined: 10/1/2003 Status: offline quote: ORIGINAL: diggerjeff are these bottles marked as sales samples or might they just be single serving size? i have a few of these type bottles from about 1900-1920. and have always thought they were just miniature single serving size. diggerjeff Diggerjeff: Yes, the bottles are marked as samples. The Pennsylvania bottles had "possesions by a licensee is illegal", which we took to mean if you had a liquor license, you weren't allowed to have them and they were not for resale. They're tax marked 1/10 th of a pint, but they appear to have more in them, about 2-3 oz. Does this make them rarer or more common? Thanks for the welcome and the interest. I've been searching and this field is very interesting. Patti (in reply to Guest) Post #: 4

RE: Found Prohibition-era salesmen's sample liquor bott... - 10/2/2003 2:59:05 PM    Guest usually sales samples command a higher value that is why i ask if they were marked as such. but this is a little out of my realm . the site roger provided will be your best bet. good eye diggerjeff (in reply to pattisch)   Post #: 5

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