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Odd Colored Whittemore & Bixby - 2/11/2011 9:16:35 AM    Bixby Bill Posts: 345 Joined: 4/24/2009 From: Ellington, CT Status: offline Here`s a Whittemore shoe polish that I recently picked up on fleebay to match the Bixby I have with the same weird coloration. They are light green with amber towards the base, almost as if the amber was heavier and settled to the bottom. It`s my guess that they were probably made from the same glass batch as the colors are identical. I`ve seen a couple other Bixbys like this, but never any other bottles until this one popped up. Does anyone else have a bottle with the same color? Attachment (1) _____________________________ Always looking for anything Bixby: bottles, tins, boxes, trade cards, advertising, etc. Been collecting for 33 years and still don`t have enough of them! Also looking for early gas & steam engines, machinery, and Conn. drugstore bottles! Post #: 1

RE: Odd Colored Whittemore & Bixby - 2/11/2011 9:31:17 AM    Road Dog Posts: 2791 Joined: 6/9/2005 From: Clayton, North Carolina Status: offline Nice! you see that happen more in the fruit jars. (in reply to Bixby Bill) Post #: 2

RE: Odd Colored Whittemore & Bixby - 2/11/2011 9:40:39 AM    Digswithstick Posts: 2068 Joined: 3/6/2008 From: north west pa Status: offline Very nice Bill ! I know  i have dug 30 or 40 of the clear ones ,but never have seen one that color no shards either. _____________________________ Digswithstick (in reply to Road Dog) Post #: 3

RE: Odd Colored Whittemore & Bixby - 2/11/2011 8:52:57 PM    CazDigger Posts: 584 Joined: 6/26/2005 From: Central NY State Status: offline I have seen medicines and soda & Beers that look like that, don't recall the name but I believe the ones I have seen were blown at a northern PA or southern NY glassworks near Binghamton NY. I had a SS coke from Binghamton once that looked like a mix of aqua, yellow-green and faint amber swirls. Very odd looking. (in reply to Digswithstick) Post #: 4

RE: Odd Colored Whittemore & Bixby - 2/11/2011 9:59:10 PM    JOETHECROW Posts: 9807 Joined: 9/3/2005 From: Northwestern Pa. (Near scenic Lake Perfidy) Status: offline That's kind of coincidental Bill,...I used to dig the occasional "Whittemore Boston" bottle in citron shades, in one of my original dumps from the 70's, that is now covered by a giant wood proccesing plant... It was the site of an early boarding house, as I later learned when I became more interested in local history and lore... I also discovered bixby bottles (for the first time) in that dump..and would dig many diff. colors of them,...I was told they were common, and didn't know they weren't (in odd colors) back then...although I never dug a bixby with the odd amber towards the bottom like that. Those are cool and interesting bottles. _____________________________ Joe ``````````````````````````````````` In the woods we return to reason and faith. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooTyuRd9zSg&feature=related (in reply to CazDigger) Post #: 5

RE: Odd Colored Whittemore & Bixby - 2/17/2011 8:06:14 PM    donalddarneille   Posts: 518 Joined: 6/23/2008 From: Portland Status: offline Hello Bill, Figures I searched French Gloss and not Whittemore when looking for other examples so did not see this post. Thanks for your response to my post, would you mind if I asked how much you paid for your example? Here is a shot of mine, color is very close to what it looks like in person..... Attachment (1) _____________________________ Just another day in Pffffft..... I stepped in what!!?? (in reply to Bixby Bill) Post #: 6

RE: Odd Colored Whittemore & Bixby - 2/17/2011 8:14:50 PM    Bixby Bill Posts: 345 Joined: 4/24/2009 From: Ellington, CT Status: offline I don`t remember exactly how much it was, probably in the $20 - $30 range. Usually if I come across an odd Whittemore I`ll pick it up if it`s reasonable, it`s getting very tough to find Bixbys I don`t have anymore. Plus I had the Bixby with the same color, so I just couldn`t resist it! _____________________________ Always looking for anything Bixby: bottles, tins, boxes, trade cards, advertising, etc. Been collecting for 33 years and still don`t have enough of them! Also looking for early gas & steam engines, machinery, and Conn. drugstore bottles! (in reply to donalddarneille) Post #: 7

RE: Odd Colored Whittemore & Bixby - 2/19/2011 1:30:36 AM    rockbot Posts: 3491 Joined: 6/17/2009 From: Hilo, Hawaii Status: offline I've been told that the citron glass was formed when the glass house added left over amber to the aqua batch. A friend of mine had two citron hutch sodas from my home town and they sold for $$$$ great color! _____________________________ " Politicians are like diapers, they need to be changed often, and for the same reason" Samuel Clemens (in reply to Bixby Bill) Post #: 8

RE: Odd Colored Whittemore & Bixby - 2/19/2011 10:12:00 AM    coboltmoon Posts: 581 Joined: 4/17/2009 Status: offline CITRON GREEN SAWYER’S CRYSTAL BLUEING Attachment (1) _____________________________ Please visit my Ebay Bottle Store http://stores.ebay.com/CobaltMoon Old Antique Bottle Website http://oldantiquebottle.com (in reply to rockbot) Post #: 9

RE: Odd Colored Whittemore & Bixby - 2/19/2011 11:16:56 AM    tigue710 Posts: 4143 Joined: 7/11/2007 From: connecticut - nor cal Status: offline I had a dump that produced those whitmores in citron, amber and aqua glass, along with every shade bixby... Another dump that madpaddler and I were digging threw all kinda of strangely colored commons at us. It was strange, father johns, sawyers, whitmores so many others in strange shades... Here's a cool one found there, the syphol naythol co in teal! _____________________________ •={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•= (in reply to coboltmoon) Post #: 10

RE: Odd Colored Whittemore & Bixby - 2/19/2011 11:18:18 AM    tigue710 Posts: 4143 Joined: 7/11/2007 From: connecticut - nor cal Status: offline Opps, here it is <a href="http://photobucket.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u143/tigue710/tigue710-A/IMG_3973.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a> _____________________________ •={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•= (in reply to tigue710) Post #: 11

RE: Odd Colored Whittemore & Bixby - 2/20/2011 9:25:51 AM    Bixby Bill Posts: 345 Joined: 4/24/2009 From: Ellington, CT Status: offline Those Sawyers come in a lot of colors too, every shade of cobalt, citrons, and a lot of greens too. Those in odd colors are getting tough to find now also, they`d make a nice collection if you could get all the different colors. Your citron one is nice, and that cobalt one is harder to find in the darker shade like that. Nice bottles! _____________________________ Always looking for anything Bixby: bottles, tins, boxes, trade cards, advertising, etc. Been collecting for 33 years and still don`t have enough of them! Also looking for early gas & steam engines, machinery, and Conn. drugstore bottles! (in reply to coboltmoon) Post #: 12

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