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Unique Atlas Figure bottle - 9/2/2008 12:30:19 AM    CasualGlassNY   Posts: 6 Joined: 9/1/2008 Status: offline This is my first post. Any info on this bottle is greatly appreciated. The bottle is clear glass, with some bubbles. It has a hand finished square band lip which is 1-1/4" across. Overall dimensions are 6-3/4" high and 2-15/16" across. It has no other markings anywhere except for the Atlas-type figure holding up a giant sphere which I assume represents our planet. The design is 1-1/4" high and 5/8" wide. I found this bottle on a small private dump at a construction site in Corning, NY. Attachment (1) Post #: 1

RE: Unique Atlas Figure bottle - 9/2/2008 12:31:28 AM    CasualGlassNY   Posts: 6 Joined: 9/1/2008 Status: offline Here is a closer shot of the design... Attachment (1) (in reply to CasualGlassNY) Post #: 2

RE: Unique Atlas Figure bottle - 9/3/2008 11:06:40 PM    CasualGlassNY   Posts: 6 Joined: 9/1/2008 Status: offline One hundred and ten hits on this post and not a single member has anything to say about it? What gives? (in reply to CasualGlassNY) Post #: 3

RE: Unique Atlas Figure bottle - 9/3/2008 11:43:37 PM    OsiaBoyce Posts: 1759 Joined: 12/8/2005 From: Chinquapin, S.C. Status: online Maybe no one knows anything or everybody is shy? _____________________________ What I tell Paula EveryDay http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKfF0YkFtYg (in reply to CasualGlassNY) Post #: 4

RE: Unique Atlas Figure bottle - 9/3/2008 11:55:24 PM    GuntherHess Posts: 5160 Joined: 12/13/2004 From: Frederick Maryland Status: offline quote: What gives? Its a plot , we all voted not to answer on the other secret site. I could give you an answer but its too late at night for me to make up a good story.  < Message edited by GuntherHess -- 9/3/2008 11:57:38 PM > _____________________________ Looking for Frederick Maryland and Dr Fahrney Bottles 2008 Medicine Bottle Price Guide on CDROM http://www.mattsoldhouse.com/MC/bottles/BottleBook2008.htm email http://www.mattsoldhouse.com/MC/bottles/email.jpg (in reply to CasualGlassNY) Post #: 5

RE: Unique Atlas Figure bottle - 9/4/2008 12:00:01 AM    OsiaBoyce Posts: 1759 Joined: 12/8/2005 From: Chinquapin, S.C. Status: online It's from  Ayn Rand Chemical Co. a division of Howard Roark Enterprises  originaly of Objectivisnski Russia. Mr. Roark came to the U.S. on the ill-fated S.S. Anthem in 1918. He setteled in Fountianhead N.Y. The co. sold out to John Galt  Inc. in 1957 and moved to Ohio where it died in 1982. _____________________________ What I tell Paula EveryDay http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKfF0YkFtYg (in reply to OsiaBoyce) Post #: 6

RE: Unique Atlas Figure bottle - 9/5/2008 11:30:21 PM    CasualGlassNY   Posts: 6 Joined: 9/1/2008 Status: offline So, I see we have some jokesters here! OsiaBoyce...I appreciate your input. I Googled both Ayn Rand and Howard Roark and found nothing about any chemical company. I'm confused. What did the bottle originally hold (other than the pint or so of dirt when I found it! lol)? Should I have posted this in the post-1900 forum? (in reply to OsiaBoyce) Post #: 7

RE: Unique Atlas Figure bottle - 9/6/2008 9:04:03 AM    GuntherHess Posts: 5160 Joined: 12/13/2004 From: Frederick Maryland Status: offline I have posted quite a few bottles in this forum and many do not get identified. There are many knowledgeable people that post on this forum but its impossible to know every bottle. Just a fact of life. Posting is no guarantee of a response on an open forum. _____________________________ Looking for Frederick Maryland and Dr Fahrney Bottles 2008 Medicine Bottle Price Guide on CDROM http://www.mattsoldhouse.com/MC/bottles/BottleBook2008.htm email http://www.mattsoldhouse.com/MC/bottles/email.jpg (in reply to CasualGlassNY) Post #: 8

RE: Unique Atlas Figure bottle - 9/6/2008 12:53:54 PM    glass man Posts: 1835 Joined: 1/30/2008 From: GEORGIA Status: offline Yeah man,it is so hard to say a lot about it .If only it had a co.or product name,SOMETHING!JUST AIN'T A LOT TO GO ON IN OTHER WORDS. _____________________________ JESUS said"COME TO THE WATER,STAND BY MY SIDE. I KNOW YOU ARE THIRSTY;YOU WON'T BE DENIED. I FELT EVERY TEARDROP WHEN IN DARKNESS YOU CRIED,SO I STROVE TO REMIND YOU FOR THOSE TEARS I DIED. "children of the day" (in reply to GuntherHess) Post #: 9

RE: Unique Atlas Figure bottle - 9/6/2008 10:17:53 PM    CasualGlassNY   Posts: 6 Joined: 9/1/2008 Status: offline So I'll assume froim what GuntherHess and glass man say, I may have a true rarity on my hands? The most unfortunate part is that there is a small chip in the top edge of the lip on the bottle. Still neat to me, though. Thanks all for your input. (in reply to glass man) Post #: 10

RE: Unique Atlas Figure bottle - 9/6/2008 10:39:07 PM    RICKJJ59W Posts: 3670 Joined: 3/8/2007 From: Lehigh Valley US of A Status: offline I think Scarface owned that bottle... "The world is Yours" _____________________________ My Web Page.Lots of pix. Dig story's published in Antique Bottle & Glass Collector. New story added 9/08 www.19thcenturybottlediggers.com Digs in action. http://www.flickr.com/photos/pitpirate/ (in reply to CasualGlassNY) Post #: 11

RE: Unique Atlas Figure bottle - 9/6/2008 10:58:05 PM    GuntherHess Posts: 5160 Joined: 12/13/2004 From: Frederick Maryland Status: offline quote: I may have a true rarity on my hands Possible, but rarity doesnt always equate to value or desirability in old bottles.  _____________________________ Looking for Frederick Maryland and Dr Fahrney Bottles 2008 Medicine Bottle Price Guide on CDROM http://www.mattsoldhouse.com/MC/bottles/BottleBook2008.htm email http://www.mattsoldhouse.com/MC/bottles/email.jpg (in reply to CasualGlassNY) Post #: 12

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