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Post a pic of the best bottle you own or have ever owned - 11/17/2008 5:23:04 PM   
LayerSlayer


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Status: offline 		Let's stick with value.

We all have bottles we love where money doesn't matter but I am talking about money bottles.

Here is mine:


I bought it for $10.






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RE: Post a pic of the best bottle you own or have ever ... - 11/17/2008 5:35:24 PM   
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Status: offline 		Very,very nice! The way it is sitting on that post puts the "BOTTLE BREAKING FEAR" IN ME!

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RE: Post a pic of the best bottle you own or have ever ... - 11/17/2008 5:47:24 PM   
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Status: offline 		Here's one of my better Baltimore Pontils

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RE: Post a pic of the best bottle you own or have ever ... - 11/17/2008 6:50:44 PM   
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Status: offline 		Here is mine. This is a pontiled Pittsburgh medicine bottle, c. 1840-50s. The sides are embossed PREPARED BY// H. VAN. VLECK. It is the only one of its type known to exist, as far as I know. There are other variants of H. Van Vleck bottles, but I have not seen another like this.  ~Jim






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RE: Post a pic of the best bottle you own or have ever ... - 11/17/2008 6:51:20 PM   
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RE: Post a pic of the best bottle you own or have ever ... - 11/17/2008 6:56:56 PM   
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Status: offline 		I am told that this is the best bottle I have . Bought it in an anitque store in Tucson Arizona about ten years ago .




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RE: Post a pic of the best bottle you own or have ever ... - 11/17/2008 7:20:25 PM   
LayerSlayer


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Status: offline 		That shape is unreal.

I've never seen anything like that.

As far as that cobalt demijohn goes, I went to a flea market my wife loves to go to and looked through the the old guy's bottles.  It was the usual screw top hell.  I was on my way out when he stopped me and reached on a high shelf for a bottle wrapped in wicker that was hidden behind a picture.  He asked if I liked it.  I tried to act like it was nothing when I saw that cobalt color and sloping collar.  I asked what he wanted for it and he said $10. 

It pulled almost $700 on Ebay.



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RE: Post a pic of the best bottle you own or have ever ... - 11/17/2008 7:20:25 PM   
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Status: offline 		Top of the line for me was the famous Pepsi Hutch from Escambia Pepsi Cola Bottling Co. in Pensacola FL owned by Jacob Lipps. I have others that I like more but when the hutch left my collection it fetched 2 grand.




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RE: Post a pic of the best bottle you own or have ever ... - 11/17/2008 7:49:40 PM   
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Status: offline 		Heres a Butler ink from Cincinnati O. 1845 to1850S. Not sure what its really worth and it doesn't really matter as this is my top ink and its staying in my collection for a long time to come the Lord willing . I do know that a lite olive colored one went for 10,000 from the Roger Long collection and this is the only grass green one I've seen . Theres quite a few out there in aqua that sale for a few hundred .Anyway made my day the day I dug it .Thanks for looken and as allways good luck diggen and finding to all.
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RE: Post a pic of the best bottle you own or have ever ... - 11/17/2008 10:23:09 PM   
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Status: offline 		One of my best bottles.  "Jacob Pinkerton Wahoo & Calisaya Bitters"  I found in the river a couple of summers ago.  Not sure of the value. Any one have any idea?? But I know its one of my best bottles. Definatly stays on the top shelf for as long as I'm around. The picture doesn't show it, but its more of a gasoline color or light honey amber.

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RE: Post a pic of the best bottle you own or have ever ... - 11/17/2008 11:00:00 PM   
Wilkie


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Status: offline 		Pioneer Whiskey from San Francisco.  This is the later version, tooled top.  Worth about 700 bucks.  This is actually the least valuable of the Pioneer whiskey's. 

This was a yard sale find in the late 70's.  I seem to recall paying 15 dollars for it, I was a kid so it couldn't have been much more than that.






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RE: Post a pic of the best bottle you own or have ever ... - 11/17/2008 11:26:13 PM   
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RE: Post a pic of the best bottle you own or have ever ... - 11/17/2008 11:31:12 PM   
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Status: offline 		The base(Didn't mean to make the last picture life size)Always wondered what kind of pontil that is?




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RE: Post a pic of the best bottle you own or have ever ... - 11/17/2008 11:41:49 PM   
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One of my best bottles.  "Jacob Pinkerton Wahoo & Calisaya Bitters"  I found in the river a couple of summers ago.  Not sure of the value. Any one have any idea?? But I know its one of my best bottles. Definatly stays on the top shelf for as long as I'm around. The picture doesn't show it, but its more of a gasoline color or light honey amber.
Runner

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RE: Post a pic of the best bottle you own or have ever ... - 11/18/2008 12:15:35 AM   
earlyglass

 

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Status: offline 		Not sure if it is "my best", but certainly up there... and a really cool IMPRESSIVE bottle!

It is a demijohn size bottle (towers over that quart Lamoille mineral water!), very Stoddard looking, olive amber color, tiny seed bubbles, applied double collared top, and an iron PONTIL base....

and embossed!... "OLD VIRGINIA PEACH BRANDY"!

One of those bottles that you hold and say, "what the hell..."  :)






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RE: Post a pic of the best bottle you own or have ever ... - 11/18/2008 2:41:57 AM   
L C

 

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Status: offline 		I plan on owning one of those in the next life ........................

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RE: Post a pic of the best bottle you own or have ever ... - 11/18/2008 6:19:50 AM   
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RE: Post a pic of the best bottle you own or have ever ... - 11/18/2008 9:43:18 AM   
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Status: offline 		Best and favorite bottle is the "Dr. Manly Hardy's - Jaundice Bitters - Bangor ME" that I recovered a few years back in the waters off Eastport, Maine.  It is very whittled, open pontiled and has a top that I have not seen on most other examples.



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RE: Post a pic of the best bottle you own or have ever ... - 11/18/2008 11:50:43 AM   
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Status: offline 		I sell most of the bottles I dig, so this is the best I have right now.  Front:  "H. Nash & Co./  Cincinnati"




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RE: Post a pic of the best bottle you own or have ever ... - 11/18/2008 11:53:49 AM   
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