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Found two interesting bottles - 8/21/2008 10:45:00 PM    BeachComber   Posts: 49 Joined: 12/10/2007 Status: offline Hey, I was out diving today looking for bottles as usual!! I found these two bottles which i am not familiar with. The first one is the usual square shaped shear top ink except for the embossings. Its embossed F.M & Co on one side and then has a picture of a dagger or something on the other side. Does anyone have any info on this ink well? The second bottle looks kinda like a miniature perrier bottle. Its in a skittle shape and dark green, with many bubbles in the glass. Any ideas on what this one was?? Attachment (1) Post #: 1

RE: Found two interesting bottles - 8/21/2008 10:45:48 PM    BeachComber   Posts: 49 Joined: 12/10/2007 Status: offline The second bottle. Attachment (1) (in reply to BeachComber) Post #: 2

RE: Found two interesting bottles - 8/21/2008 11:09:17 PM    CWBookAuthor   Posts: 23 Joined: 7/5/2007 Status: offline The FM&Co is a fairly common bottle in the United Kingdom, where it was made. I've had a number of them and sold them very quickly, so the word "common" is just a term that means one thing here and another thing in the U.K.  The green bottle is a sauce bottle that also came from the U.K.  Someone else can give you a possible  retail value and perhaps the approximate date for them.. Are you from the U.K. or here in the United States? Mike Author of The Collector's Guide to Civil War Period Bottles & Jars -- 3rd Edition and numerous other books and articles (in reply to BeachComber) Post #: 3

RE: Found two interesting bottles - 8/22/2008 5:20:06 AM    TROG   Posts: 262 Joined: 9/27/2004 From: South Australia Status: offline Hi Beachcomber, Both bottles you have found are from around 1900 and are relatively common and both would sell for around the $10.00 - $15 .00 in Australia. The green one I have seen labelled and was for a bath perfume similar to Eue de Cologne. _____________________________ AMERICAN POT LIDS WANTED (in reply to CWBookAuthor) Post #: 4

RE: Found two interesting bottles - 8/22/2008 8:02:36 AM    BeachComber   Posts: 49 Joined: 12/10/2007 Status: offline hey, Thanks for the info. I am from Bermuda, and have found these bottles here locally. We get bottles from all corners of the world here in Bermuda. I have even found some Australian and New Zealand codd bottles here in Bermuda. So is it a dagger on the little ink well? Thanks again.  (in reply to TROG) Post #: 5

RE: Found two interesting bottles - 8/22/2008 9:57:54 AM    TROG   Posts: 262 Joined: 9/27/2004 From: South Australia Status: offline Hi, The pictorial on the ink is definitely a dagger and these are known as dagger inks _____________________________ AMERICAN POT LIDS WANTED (in reply to BeachComber) Post #: 6

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