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What can 50 cents buy today? - 8/10/2009 9:22:41 PM    Wilkie Posts: 1199 Joined: 5/2/2008 From: Suisun City, CA Status: offline How about a 4" cobalt, owl poison bottle? This weekend, my mom baught 3 bottles from a yard sale. The smallest was a 4" cobalt owl drug company poison bottle for 50 cents. next was a bromo for .75 cents and lastly was a milk of magnesia bottle for 1 dollar. The prices went lowest for the smallest bottle and highest for the larger. Good ol' mom, I love her to death. She is always finding me bottles to "recycle" at yard sales (I say recyle cause they are always throwbacks). but this time she did very very good. I already have a 2 5/8" tall owl poison, the 4" will look really good next to it. Supposedly there is no damage, not even a scratch, according to mom. When I get it from her I will take a photo of it along with the one I already have. What is the best deal "you" have ever made for a good bottle? I got this picture from the web, it is just a representation of my bottle until I get mine in my hands: Attachment (1) _____________________________ www.myspace.com/westernbottles I buy samples, Jamaica Gingers from anywhere and Northern California hutches, blob tops. Post #: 1

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RE: What can 50 cents buy today? - 8/10/2009 10:34:58 PM    lobeycat Posts: 6697 Joined: 9/8/2003 From: RED SOX Nation Status: offline got a olive green dr. soules for $35. sold it on paybay a week later fot 395. _____________________________ http://youtu.be/YkdOqdpSc0A makes a man cry it does lol. (in reply to Deleted User) Post #: 3

RE: What can 50 cents buy today? - 8/11/2009 11:04:47 AM    Wilkie Posts: 1199 Joined: 5/2/2008 From: Suisun City, CA Status: offline Nice turn-around there Lobes, $360 free money, gotta love it. _____________________________ www.myspace.com/westernbottles I buy samples, Jamaica Gingers from anywhere and Northern California hutches, blob tops. (in reply to lobeycat) Post #: 4

RE: What can 50 cents buy today? - 8/11/2009 11:06:23 AM    Poison_Us   Posts: 2801 Joined: 5/27/2009 From: Savannah, Ga. Status: offline Nice score for a $75-$125 bottle.  We got lucky and scored a great deal over a year ago on a nice poison due to a poor photo.  We took a chance and it was what we thought it was.  Saved us over $50 cuz nobody else was willing to take the chance. _____________________________ Poison Us Member: APBCA ( www.poisonbottleclub.org ) Visit Us @: www.poisonousaddiction.com Looking for digging partners in/near Savannah. Be a friend. Give the "GIFT" of Poison. (in reply to lobeycat) Post #: 5

RE: What can 50 cents buy today? - 8/11/2009 11:30:28 AM    bottlenutboy Posts: 2293 Joined: 10/10/2006 From: Bordensprings, Ala. or Esom Hill, Ga. Status: offline i bought a previously unknown tennesee whiskey flask at an antique mall for $4 was offered $350 for it by none other than ralph van brocklin himself  and wound up trading it for an extremely rare cedar bluff, ala. soda bottle for my collection made me grin _____________________________ http://www.geocities.com/cleburneslim/index.html?1170417418125 http://www.freewebs.com/bottlenutboy/forsale.htm Spencer (in reply to Poison_Us) Post #: 6

RE: What can 50 cents buy today? - 8/11/2009 12:55:28 PM    jays emporium Posts: 1386 Joined: 12/18/2006 From: Victoria, Texas Status: offline Last year at the antique mall where I have a booth, I spotted a stained Hutchinson in one of the other booths.  Most of the other dealers look down on bottles so I was surprised to see a Hutch there and when I looked at it the bottle was from New Mexico.  I had seen the exact same bottle, except cleaner, sell in American Bottle Auctions for $600.  The price was $5.00 but that dealer had a 25% off sale so I got it for $3.75. I figured even severely stained it would bring at least $300. on ebay.  It actually sold for $540.  What a deal.  I have found other good bottle bargains there but nothing as ridiculous as that one. (in reply to bottlenutboy) Post #: 7

RE: What can 50 cents buy today? - 8/11/2009 1:05:35 PM    buzzkutt033 Posts: 1284 Joined: 12/17/2007 From: East Penn Township Pennsylvania Status: offline picked up this local rolling pin years ago. was in a box at a yard sale for $2.00. jim Attachment (1) (in reply to jays emporium) Post #: 8

RE: What can 50 cents buy today? - 8/11/2009 8:30:47 PM    Clam Posts: 724 Joined: 11/8/2008 From: Baltimore Status: offline $70 for a wooden captain's chest with 12 mint hand blown bottles ground with stoppers from the 1700's _____________________________ Ok if were gonna dig it............. were gonna dig it all the way ! (in reply to buzzkutt033) Post #: 9

RE: What can 50 cents buy today? - 8/11/2009 9:28:46 PM    RICKJJ59W Posts: 10982 Joined: 3/8/2007 From: Lehigh Valley US of A Status: offline I made a deal with a privy once,I said you give us some good bottles and we will fill you back up. _____________________________ My web site. Lots of privy and dump dig pictures.(New look) Also dig story's I wrote, published in Antique Bottle & Glass Collector magazine. www.19thcenturybottlediggers.com (in reply to Wilkie) Post #: 10

RE: What can 50 cents buy today? - 8/11/2009 9:52:52 PM    Brains   Posts: 742 Joined: 9/2/2006 From: Hilliard/columbus ohio Status: offline found an insulator (cd-102 Brookfield) for 50-cents once at a community sale.  Insulators worth just that but the last yard sale i saw insulators at they wanted around $20 a piece for the junk they had so for 50 cents i cant complain. _____________________________ Use nickels, nickels is money too, guys (in reply to RICKJJ59W) Post #: 11

RE: What can 50 cents buy today? - 8/11/2009 10:00:11 PM    appliedlips Posts: 3400 Joined: 1/30/2005 Status: offline      Found this flask in a small town antique mall one day. It had 3 potstones with issues, two with large cracks.. I had the attendant call the owner and work a deal for this and a ginger ale colored New England Eagle-Cornucopia for $300. The second flasks was worth my investment in my opinion so it was a no brainer. After a couple hours laying on a table at a bottle show getting feedback and some $2000+ offers, I priced it at $4500 and sold it a few minutes later,despite the damage..I miss it but with the pot stone cracks I would have always been nervous. Mint it would have sold for $30,000+. Attachment (1) _____________________________ LOOKING FOR PONTILLED OR EARLY SQUAT SODAS FROM HIGHLAND,ILLNOIS.. (in reply to RICKJJ59W) Post #: 12

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