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Ice Blue Moxie Nerve Food w/ Fluted Lip - 11/27/2004 9:09:25 PM    Sam_MaineBottles Posts: 384 Joined: 4/5/2004 From: Mid-coast Maine Status: offline Hi Folks - I was fortunate enough to purchase an entire bottle collection with over 130 bottles a few weeks ago. There are several bottles that I have questions on that I'll be asking about as time permits. The first one I'd like to check on is a sweet ice blue Moxie Nerve Food bottle with a different style lip - not the typical blob top or crown cap. The picture is better than me for giving the description. My question is - what type of closure would be used on this type of bottle and how rare/common is it? Thanks - Sam Attachment (1) Post #: 1

RE: Ice Blue Moxie Nerve Food w/ Fluted Lip - 11/27/2004 9:13:10 PM    Sam_MaineBottles Posts: 384 Joined: 4/5/2004 From: Mid-coast Maine Status: offline Here's a closeup of the lip. Attachment (1) (in reply to Sam_MaineBottles) Post #: 2

RE: Ice Blue Moxie Nerve Food w/ Fluted Lip - 11/27/2004 9:37:33 PM    ladyp3797   Posts: 60 Joined: 1/19/2004 From: New England Status: offline How tall is it? Lp (in reply to Sam_MaineBottles) Post #: 3

RE: Ice Blue Moxie Nerve Food w/ Fluted Lip - 11/27/2004 9:49:38 PM    ladyp3797   Posts: 60 Joined: 1/19/2004 From: New England Status: offline Here is a link for a cool sight about Moxie Nerve Food :) http://www.xensei.com/users/iraseski/WhatIs.html Lp (in reply to Sam_MaineBottles) Post #: 4

RE: Ice Blue Moxie Nerve Food w/ Fluted Lip - 11/27/2004 9:55:27 PM    Sam_MaineBottles Posts: 384 Joined: 4/5/2004 From: Mid-coast Maine Status: offline The bottle is 10.25 inches tall. (in reply to Sam_MaineBottles) Post #: 5

RE: Ice Blue Moxie Nerve Food w/ Fluted Lip - 11/28/2004 9:00:23 AM    tree planter   Posts: 11 Joined: 8/24/2004 Status: offline hi sam looks like a later moxie possibly one of the first metal caps reminds me of the later master inks tops that were made abm nice looking bottle proberly a scarce one . sent you a email back about trading did you get it steve (in reply to Sam_MaineBottles) Post #: 6

RE: Ice Blue Moxie Nerve Food w/ Fluted Lip - 11/28/2004 9:37:14 AM    David E Posts: 995 Joined: 5/24/2004 Status: offline Hi Sam, Richard Fike book, looks like you top on bottle is called "Flared Ring" Dave (in reply to Sam_MaineBottles) Post #: 7

RE: Ice Blue Moxie Nerve Food w/ Fluted Lip - 11/29/2004 10:25:43 AM    spanishsilver Posts: 21 Joined: 11/29/2004 From: Live Free or Die NH Status: offline Very Nice Bottle.. (in reply to Sam_MaineBottles) Post #: 8

RE: Ice Blue Moxie Nerve Food w/ Fluted Lip - 11/29/2004 4:36:31 PM    Maine Digger   Posts: 823 Joined: 2/4/2004 From: Augusta, Maine Status: offline Hey Sam! Nice bottle, I've been collecting moxie bottles for a while now, but I've haven't come across any like yours. I haven't checked yet, but did moxie still refer to their elixir as 'Nerve Food' very long after the advent of ABM? That's a beauty, wonderful color. _____________________________ Norm Miller (in reply to Sam_MaineBottles) Post #: 9

RE: Ice Blue Moxie Nerve Food w/ Fluted Lip - 11/29/2004 7:37:34 PM    Sam_MaineBottles Posts: 384 Joined: 4/5/2004 From: Mid-coast Maine Status: offline Hey Norm - This bottle's mold seams stop right at the top of the bottle's shoulder. I think that I read somewhere that Moxie dropped the 'Nerve Food' reference when the Food and Drug Act went into effect in 1906. Later - Sam P.S. - Heard anything about when next year's NEABC show will be in Portland? (in reply to Sam_MaineBottles) Post #: 10

RE: Ice Blue Moxie Nerve Food w/ Fluted Lip - 5/3/2006 6:41:51 AM    cowseatmaize Posts: 2135 Joined: 12/2/2004 From: Metro West, MA Status: offline I know this is old but I felt like reviving it with a question and answer. Nice bottle too!! Sam_MaineBottles, I thought the F&D act might have done that too (last post). I just noticed a bottle with Trademark and Registered on one. I believe Moxie was trademarked in 1924. I couldn't see if it was ABM. I'm still trying to find out when the Nerve Food ended. Maybe I'll have to spring a ton of $$$ for the Moxie Encyclopedia. Either hope I can find a library with it. Anyone come up with something since this? < Message edited by cowseatmaize -- 5/3/2006 7:20:34 AM > _____________________________ My 10¢ worth (inflation) Eric If you love what your doing it might be illegal, so watch your back. (in reply to Sam_MaineBottles) Post #: 11

RE: Ice Blue Moxie Nerve Food w/ Fluted Lip - 5/3/2006 4:13:20 PM    GuntherHess Posts: 5444 Joined: 12/13/2004 From: Frederick Maryland Status: online That is a rare Moxie bottle. I have seen one sell for $259 a couple years ago. It's listed in my medicine book. The lip use is a mystery to me, may have been a prototype for some closure that didnt catch on. Its an early bottle. _____________________________ Looking for Frederick Maryland and Dr Fahrney Bottles email http://www.mattsoldhouse.com/MC/bottles/email.jpg (in reply to Sam_MaineBottles) Post #: 12

RE: Ice Blue Moxie Nerve Food w/ Fluted Lip - 5/3/2006 4:28:10 PM    capsoda Posts: 8082 Joined: 11/15/2005 From: Seminole,Alabama, USA Status: offline Wow, Thats a really odd closure for that type bottle. I have seen it on bottles that held nitroglycerine. It had a cork that was held in place by a twisted wire. What did they put in that stuff. _____________________________ Warren Diggin down in Dixie, USA Work is for people who don't dig bottles President, Panhandle Cruisers http://www.panhandlecruisers.org/ (in reply to Sam_MaineBottles) Post #: 13

RE: Ice Blue Moxie Nerve Food w/ Fluted Lip - 5/3/2006 9:21:05 PM    Sam_MaineBottles Posts: 384 Joined: 4/5/2004 From: Mid-coast Maine Status: offline Hi Folks - The moxie thread still lives! Since I posted the first message I've slowly been adding Moxie Nerve Food bottles to my collection. I have over 20 variations on my list and have 15 bottles all told. Five different lip types: flared ring, 'doughnut' blob, Baltimore loop blob, sloping collar and crown top. They're all BIM. I've got a feeling that there aren't any Nerve Food bottles that are ABM but I could be wrong. Some have Patented, some have Trade Mark, some have Lowell Mass or various combinations of those. Base embossings add another dimension to the varieties: letters, numbers, dots, stars. The only one I have that says just Moxie Nerve Food is a crown top - go figure. It's been kinda fun seeing how many variations are out there. Now I'd like to add some of the Western (Chicago and Denver) ones to the collection but they're not found in this neck of the woods. Later - Sam _____________________________ Author of 'Maine Bottlers and Their Bottles, 1840-1980' (in reply to Sam_MaineBottles) Post #: 14

RE: Ice Blue Moxie Nerve Food w/ Fluted Lip - 5/4/2006 4:53:10 AM    cowseatmaize Posts: 2135 Joined: 12/2/2004 From: Metro West, MA Status: offline I just bought one to research. It's a crown top trade mark. I also found this pic online. I wish I could find the link to it now. I like the hutches. Attachment (1) < Message edited by cowseatmaize -- 5/4/2006 4:53:54 AM > _____________________________ My 10¢ worth (inflation) Eric If you love what your doing it might be illegal, so watch your back. (in reply to Sam_MaineBottles) Post #: 15

RE: Ice Blue Moxie Nerve Food w/ Fluted Lip - 8/8/2008 6:36:16 PM    monalisa Posts: 104 Joined: 8/21/2005 Status: offline Hey Sam, I am pretty sure that is the lip used from the 1870's era before Moxie was carbonated. It was a "health" syrup until it was carbonated in the early 1880's + or - a year here or there.                                Mike  (in reply to Sam_MaineBottles) Post #: 16

RE: Ice Blue Moxie Nerve Food w/ Fluted Lip - 8/8/2008 8:19:09 PM    beendiggin Posts: 915 Joined: 6/30/2005 Status: offline Sam, that is really cool!  Wish I knew something about it, to me it looks like a back bar top or dispenser type top.   I'm anxious to see what else you bought.  You said the show is in Portland this year?  Is that for sure?   How's the medicine book coming?  (in reply to Sam_MaineBottles) Post #: 17

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