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Newbie Collector with a Modest Start Needs Help with Id... - 3/27/2009 1:06:50 PM    ChimChim   Posts: 8 Joined: 3/27/2009 Status: offline Hi, there!  I'm glad I found this site.  I have a magpie obsession with pretty colored glass and have just recently become interested in learning more about some of my collection.  I'm posting some of my bottles for comments.  I don't know what to make of the amber bottle.  It is machine pressed (there is a seam that runs up the sides all the way up to the lip) with an applied lip.  Any info?  It has bubbles traped in it and on the bottom, you can see strands of whatever was used to make the amber color.  I can't tell if someone was just being sloppy or if it has any value.  Either way, I really like its color and the ripples in the glass. Many thanks for helping this newbie on her journey.  Chim Chim :) Attachment (1) _____________________________ -- How can I miss you if you won't go away?! Post #: 1

RE: Newbie Collector with a Modest Start Needs Help wit... - 3/27/2009 1:23:37 PM    ChimChim   Posts: 8 Joined: 3/27/2009 Status: offline LOLOL - sorry for the gigantic bottle!!  Here are some more "digestible" thumbnails of some of my bottles: Attachment (1) (in reply to ChimChim) Post #: 2

RE: Newbie Collector with a Modest Start Needs Help wit... - 3/27/2009 1:31:10 PM    ChimChim   Posts: 8 Joined: 3/27/2009 Status: offline I know this Aqua Flask is a repro - probably 1970's - but I'd love to know more about it - who created it and why? (Also what were they thinking with that goofy eagle that cracks me up every time I look at it?) Front: Attachment (1) _____________________________ -- How can I miss you if you won't go away?! (in reply to ChimChim) Post #: 3

RE: Newbie Collector with a Modest Start Needs Help wit... - 3/27/2009 1:33:06 PM    ChimChim   Posts: 8 Joined: 3/27/2009 Status: offline Back: Attachment (1) _____________________________ -- How can I miss you if you won't go away?! (in reply to ChimChim) Post #: 4

RE: Newbie Collector with a Modest Start Needs Help wit... - 3/27/2009 1:35:46 PM    ChimChim   Posts: 8 Joined: 3/27/2009 Status: offline The next two pitchers are definitely hand-blown but I don't know how to research their history.  Any suggestions?  The smaller, ribbed one is very heavy with a more prononced pontil but both pontils are very clean and centered so I don't think these guys are very old. Attachment (1) _____________________________ -- How can I miss you if you won't go away?! (in reply to ChimChim) Post #: 5

RE: Newbie Collector with a Modest Start Needs Help wit... - 3/27/2009 1:37:46 PM    ChimChim   Posts: 8 Joined: 3/27/2009 Status: offline 2nd pitcher: Attachment (1) _____________________________ -- How can I miss you if you won't go away?! (in reply to ChimChim) Post #: 6

RE: Newbie Collector with a Modest Start Needs Help wit... - 3/27/2009 2:18:06 PM    ChimChim   Posts: 8 Joined: 3/27/2009 Status: offline One more and that's it - thanks for putting up with my postings - this is a liquor bottle - it has "federal law forbids sale or re-use of this bottle" embossed on the back near the neck.  The numbers on the bottom are "D-90 12 A 55 15."  I'm pretty sure it's post 1900's because the seams run to the top of the bottle.  Just would like to know more about it.  Thanks!  Attachment (1) (in reply to ChimChim) Post #: 7

RE: Newbie Collector with a Modest Start Needs Help wit... - 3/27/2009 3:19:01 PM    RED Matthews Posts: 2268 Joined: 8/2/2008 Status: online Hi, ChimChim:   Well I just went through your pictures and I have to suggest that you go to our Bill Lindsey's  informational coverage of Old American Bottles. Ths link is: http://www.sha.org/bottles/index.htm   After you have studied through that material you will learn more about bottles and how they are made.  I am sorry I don't have the time right now to comment on your bottles.  I will look at them later tonight, if I can.  I didn't see where you had any.to get excited about.  My question is - where did you get them from. More later,  RED Matthews _____________________________ http://www.bottlemysteries.com/welcome/ (in reply to ChimChim) Post #: 8

RE: Newbie Collector with a Modest Start Needs Help wit... - 3/27/2009 6:54:55 PM    ChimChim   Posts: 8 Joined: 3/27/2009 Status: offline Thanks for the response and the link, Red.  I've been poking around Bill's site.  What a wonderful resource!  It is definitely something that you have to take in small bites.  These are just a group of bottles that I have acquired from various thrift stores and yard sales in my area over a couple of years of magpie shopping.  I don't mind that they aren't valuable; I didn't pay more than $1-2 for any of them.  I just wanted to know a little bit more about them.  If anyone has a similar bottle and/or knows something about any of their origins, I would love to hear your thoughts.  ChimChim _____________________________ -- How can I miss you if you won't go away?! (in reply to RED Matthews) Post #: 9

RE: Newbie Collector with a Modest Start Needs Help wit... - 3/28/2009 11:10:00 AM    cc6pack   Posts: 1147 Joined: 7/12/2003 From: Mableton, Ga. Status: offline Kris Your first bottle is a wine carafe, it came with wine with foil top. If I remember correctly some where in the 70's, cheap wine at that. Ahh the 70's As you stated the flask is a repo, a lot of different companies made these in the 60's-70's. If you like it it's worth  you paid for it. The pitcher looks modern I know nothing about it. The whiskey bottle was made between 1933 to about 1965, that's when the bottles were required to have the Law forbids resuse.............................. on them. From the code you gave looks like 1955 to me. The BLM site is a great resource, if you need more help don't hesitate to ask. (in reply to ChimChim) Post #: 10

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