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Millville Bottle - 9/19/2010 3:05:57 PM    staticx32   Posts: 74 Joined: 7/19/2010 Status: offline I was at the usual antique store and came across a pretty blue bottle with a circle design on the front that read "Millville Bottle Company 1888" or something like that. (I am back at school now and left the bottle at home).  I saw where back in 2006-2007 there was a post about this type of bottle, but in green and amber.  Mine is blue.  Someone mentioned they were reproductions and I was wondering if this was so.  The guy had $15.00 on it and ended up selling it to me for $7.50.  I told my mother who was with me this was a great deal and I quote "if it's not a fake or reproduction."  Washed it out and looks great.  I had a feeling when I bought it that it might not be from the date, but can anyone help?  Thanks.  P.S. The bottom has a "M" or "W" stamp. Post #: 1

RE: Millville Bottle - 9/19/2010 3:08:24 PM    woody Posts: 3646 Joined: 10/29/2002 From: Gilmanton, New Hampshire Status: offline Yes, I believe they are reproductions as I have them in green and blue. _____________________________ Woody (in reply to staticx32) Post #: 2

RE: Millville Bottle - 9/19/2010 3:10:31 PM    woody Posts: 3646 Joined: 10/29/2002 From: Gilmanton, New Hampshire Status: offline Here are pictures of the bottles in question that I have from a previous thread. http://www.antique-bottles.net/forum/m-5221/mpage-1/key-millville/tm.htm#5318 _____________________________ Woody (in reply to woody) Post #: 3

RE: Millville Bottle - 9/19/2010 3:24:08 PM    staticx32   Posts: 74 Joined: 7/19/2010 Status: offline My blue bottle isn't that light.  It is a dark aqua/royal blue color. (in reply to woody) Post #: 4

RE: Millville Bottle - 9/19/2010 4:00:34 PM    woody Posts: 3646 Joined: 10/29/2002 From: Gilmanton, New Hampshire Status: offline The one I have goes from light blue to almost black colored because of the mixing of the glass, I suppose. You can see the swirls of the different colors. Attachment (1) _____________________________ Woody (in reply to staticx32) Post #: 5

RE: Millville Bottle - 9/19/2010 4:04:12 PM    woody Posts: 3646 Joined: 10/29/2002 From: Gilmanton, New Hampshire Status: offline I can hear the Nascars racing from my house. I live about 2 miles from the NH Motor Speedway. _____________________________ Woody (in reply to woody) Post #: 6

RE: Millville Bottle - 9/19/2010 9:33:17 PM    Plumbata Posts: 1658 Joined: 12/4/2007 Status: offline When I was 10 I bought a box of bottles at an auction for 2 bucks (my father would get 2 bidder cards, one for him and one for myself and I would pay with my own money) and in it was a minty ACL "Donald Duck" cola or ginger ale or something like that. I had no idea it was good since I didn't like ACLs, just embossed stuff, so when a fellow brought over a Millville 1888 blob beer that I believe he paid 8 bucks for and offered a trade with me I accepted happily, as I was heavily into coins at the time, I trusted that people everywhere had good intentions and strove to present unadulturated truth, and assumed that an embossed year was an honest and accurate time of manufacture (at the time I knew 1858 masons were made for a long while but I had not encountered fakes/reproductions of other overtly dated glass). I still remember his facial expressions, and with the benefit of 13 years worth of experience I now know he was trying to, and successfully did, screw me over with full knowledge and without compunction. I still have that reproduction, and still kick myself for falling prey to that middle-aged skeezbag, but overall my youth helped me get alot of good stuff cheap when, at times, my competitors saw they were bidding against a 95 pound little kid and let me get what I wanted. Back then I figured I was just skilled at getting good deals, lol _____________________________ Alterius non sit qui suus esse potest. Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper. - Thomas Jefferson (in reply to woody) Post #: 7

RE: Millville Bottle - 9/20/2010 7:57:42 AM    staticx32   Posts: 74 Joined: 7/19/2010 Status: offline Well, if anyone is interested I am wanting to sell it for what I paid $7.50.  I do not collect reproductions and they are simply a waste of my time. PM me if interested.  I would even be willing to trade.  Thanks. (in reply to Plumbata) Post #: 8

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