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What is this bottle? - 2/17/2006 9:36:39 PM    kimfair   Posts: 9 Joined: 4/18/2005 Status: offline Found this bottle at a thrift store. It's a olive green color glass, with some striations. It's 7 3/8 th inches high, and 2 3/8th inches wide at it's widest point. It has many bubbles, at least one potstone, and what looks like an applied lip. The bottom has a bump of glassm, but no pontil. Any ideas? < Message edited by kimfair -- 2/17/2006 9:41:00 PM > Post #: 1

RE: What is this bottle? - 2/17/2006 9:38:56 PM    kimfair   Posts: 9 Joined: 4/18/2005 Status: offline THe picture said it loaded, oh well I'll try again Attachment (1) (in reply to kimfair) Post #: 2

RE: What is this bottle? - 2/17/2006 9:39:53 PM    kimfair   Posts: 9 Joined: 4/18/2005 Status: offline Here is another shot. This shows the lip. Attachment (1) (in reply to kimfair) Post #: 3

RE: What is this bottle? - 2/17/2006 9:42:43 PM    kimfair   Posts: 9 Joined: 4/18/2005 Status: offline Last one, here is a shot of the bottom. Attachment (1) (in reply to kimfair) Post #: 4

RE: What is this bottle? - 2/17/2006 10:01:49 PM    capsoda Posts: 7510 Joined: 11/15/2005 From: Seminole,Alabama, USA Status: offline Hi Kim, It's called a case gin. They were used to bottle gin and were in use for about 100 years until around 1900. _____________________________ Warren Diggin down in Dixie, USA Work is for people who don't dig bottles President, Panhandle Cruisers http://www.panhandlecruisers.org/ (in reply to kimfair) Post #: 5

RE: What is this bottle? - 2/18/2006 12:40:39 AM    kimfair   Posts: 9 Joined: 4/18/2005 Status: offline Awesome! Thanks so much! I got it for $1.50 so I guess I did OK. Thanks again! (in reply to capsoda) Post #: 6

RE: What is this bottle? - 2/18/2006 2:01:46 AM    capsoda Posts: 7510 Joined: 11/15/2005 From: Seminole,Alabama, USA Status: offline Yeah, I'd say you got a real good deal. Unembossed case gins go from $10 to about $30 depending on size and color. _____________________________ Warren Diggin down in Dixie, USA Work is for people who don't dig bottles President, Panhandle Cruisers http://www.panhandlecruisers.org/ (in reply to kimfair) Post #: 7

RE: What is this bottle? - 2/18/2006 7:28:26 AM    swizzle   Posts: 1325 Joined: 3/2/2005 From: Upstate NY Status: offline I thought case gins were dated back as far as 1790's. Jason (in reply to kimfair) Post #: 8

RE: What is this bottle? - 2/18/2006 8:04:16 AM    bearswede Posts: 2906 Joined: 9/28/2004 From: western mass Status: offline quote: I thought case gins were dated back as far as 1790's You mean like this one? Attachment (1) _____________________________ "I LOVE Wolfies!!!!!!!!!!!!" (in reply to swizzle) Post #: 9

RE: What is this bottle? - 2/18/2006 8:06:23 AM    bearswede Posts: 2906 Joined: 9/28/2004 From: western mass Status: offline Base... Attachment (1) _____________________________ "I LOVE Wolfies!!!!!!!!!!!!" (in reply to kimfair) Post #: 10

RE: What is this bottle? - 2/18/2006 8:35:52 AM    madpaddla Posts: 2536 Joined: 12/29/2005 From: The great state of New England Status: online Kim and Bear: Now why did you guys go and do that to me for the start of the weekend. I love the case gins and havent found one yet. Kim: GREAT PURCHASE ! $1.50 unreal. Keep the buys/finds coming and welcome to the forum. Bunch of good folk here. Ummm and I'll buy it off ya for say....$2..maybe even $2.50..very jealous here. Awesome purchase. Bear: That just isnt nice to do. Beauty of a bottle. Thanks for making the weekend. The 2 bottles I'm chasing are poisons and case gins and there you go with that one. Can you give a small history on how you got it? Keep bottling you too. Keep busting up my day with those great bottles. Madpaddla _____________________________ It pays to look down. Ebay stuff http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZspliffybigfeetQQhtZ-1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-ckIv1tiaU&feature=related (in reply to kimfair) Post #: 11

RE: What is this bottle? - 2/18/2006 9:01:45 AM    bearswede Posts: 2906 Joined: 9/28/2004 From: western mass Status: offline quote: Can you give a small history Not much to it, Ben... I think it was my first on-line auction... The one in Canada... Can't recall the name right at the moment... Oh yeah... It was Phil Culhane's Auction... I won a lot of 5 bottles, three of which I've sold, leaving this gin and a sealed ABM spirits bottle... If you get tired of waiting to dig one, Ben, I have a couple of nice ones I could part with reasonably... Ron Attachment (1) _____________________________ "I LOVE Wolfies!!!!!!!!!!!!" (in reply to madpaddla) Post #: 12

RE: What is this bottle? - 2/18/2006 9:51:00 AM    southern Maine diver Posts: 1436 Joined: 8/13/2005 From: South Berwick, Maine USA Status: offline Hey Ben... I know how much you're suffering from the "Bottle" illness... So remind me before you come up for the bottle show in April and I'll give you one of my case gins that I found diving. I have four or five of the common ones, so That'll give you something to look at and it will help me spread the "Bottle" disease even further!!! Then, when I come down your way, you'll owe me big time and we'll find bottles like that underwater!!! I might be driving through your area anyway, I'm looking at buying a newer Cargo van for my business and I can't find one up here at a reasonable price, so I'm looking at flying down south or out to the east to get a good deal on one. If I do, I'll swing by you on the way back. Wayne (in reply to kimfair) Post #: 13

RE: What is this bottle? - 2/18/2006 10:04:22 AM    madpaddla Posts: 2536 Joined: 12/29/2005 From: The great state of New England Status: online Wayne, Is there a cure for this disease "Bottle Illness"? Or are you talking about the "Brown Bottle Flu" I have that almost every morning. haha Still looking for that "Bottle Illness Cure" and thank -you for the case gin. Madpaddla < Message edited by madpaddla -- 2/18/2006 10:05:33 AM > _____________________________ It pays to look down. Ebay stuff http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZspliffybigfeetQQhtZ-1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-ckIv1tiaU&feature=related (in reply to kimfair) Post #: 14

RE: What is this bottle? - 2/18/2006 10:48:48 AM    southern Maine diver Posts: 1436 Joined: 8/13/2005 From: South Berwick, Maine USA Status: offline Hey Ben... Sorry to burst your bubble... There is no real cure for the "bottle bug" it gets worse and worse!!! You see bottles in every thing you look at... every old house you pass you try to envision where the privies are... where the dump is... What's in the barn... where is the rock wall... look for lightening rods on the roof tops... the old granite foundations Every antique shop you pass you strain your neck to see if they have anything good on display in the window... yard sales... estate auctions... E-bay... yahoo... Google... you check every e-mail address... every bottle site... you buy hundreds of books... (even ones you already have, but you have so many that you forget you have it!!! been there- done that)... You surround yourself in bottles... they're on display everywhere in your house!!! every nook and cranny is filled with a bottle... you have to dig a path to the TV, through the bottles from your favorite chair!!! (seen that, but she wasn't a bottle collector)... You actually take the time to dust off your bottles and label them on the bottom with date, time and location of find, you keep meticulous records of your bottles... you actually cry when you find a crack in one... you insist that everyone holds your bottles with BOTH HANDS... You polish not only your bottles, but your digging tools as well! Your garage and basement (attic too) are filled with boxes of bottles... You swing into the state liquor store, not to buy a nice bottle of wine for your honey, but just to fill your truck up with empty cardboard boxes for more dug antique bottles!!! You stay up till all hours of the morning chatting with your friends from Seminole, Al for more info on bottles.... You go to the library, buy maps, plan your next dig... scout locations, go deer hunting, but you bring a shovel, gloves, cutters and the recent Kovel's with you along with your rifle... You cuddle up with your honey and read a good book... Michael Polak, Jim Megura or Ralph Kovel... maybe even the newest edition of the Auction Price eport!!! Then and only then, do you realize that the bug has become a fever... You eat, sleep and drink and dream of bottles... you wake up with a hard bottle... well nevermind Eventually, it becomes a passion... an obsession not just merely a "hobby" ... In my case, I show a lot of these symptons, but I search for bridges, wharves, lakes, rivers, docks, mooring fields, shipping lanes, streams, ponds, train tressels, embankments, foundations, canals, river banks, ferry landings and so on... So little time and there are so many bottles yet to discover... Have a good day! Wayne (in reply to kimfair) Post #: 15

RE: What is this bottle? - 2/18/2006 11:54:52 AM    bearswede Posts: 2906 Joined: 9/28/2004 From: western mass Status: offline quote: you wake up with a hard bottle Cap told me your bottle was rubbery and leaning to the right...ROR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! _____________________________ "I LOVE Wolfies!!!!!!!!!!!!" (in reply to madpaddla) Post #: 16

RE: What is this bottle? - 2/18/2006 2:59:02 PM    capsoda Posts: 7510 Joined: 11/15/2005 From: Seminole,Alabama, USA Status: offline Thats a real good one Ron.RoR!!!!!!!!!!!! Hey Ben, Sounds like Wayne has got it bad. _____________________________ Warren Diggin down in Dixie, USA Work is for people who don't dig bottles President, Panhandle Cruisers http://www.panhandlecruisers.org/ (in reply to kimfair) Post #: 17

RE: What is this bottle? - 2/20/2006 3:14:02 AM    walkingstick Posts: 310 Joined: 1/28/2006 From: World Wide (presently Bemidji, MN Status: offline Hey Wayne, Here is one more for your list. Before allowing anyone to handle your bottle you insist that they sit down and only you can take it from it's "nest" and gingerly hand it to them. They must remain seated while handling your baby. < Message edited by walkingstick -- 2/20/2006 2:15:45 AM > _____________________________ Wil Grolsch bottles ... oh yeah, I know them well. They are for bottling homebrew ... aren't they? Photographer, homebrewer and meade maker for barter purposes (in reply to kimfair) Post #: 18

RE: What is this bottle? - 2/20/2006 10:17:40 AM    capsoda Posts: 7510 Joined: 11/15/2005 From: Seminole,Alabama, USA Status: offline Sounds like Wil has it bad too. I don't let anyone handle my bottles unless they are shovel qualified. Attachment (1) _____________________________ Warren Diggin down in Dixie, USA Work is for people who don't dig bottles President, Panhandle Cruisers http://www.panhandlecruisers.org/ (in reply to kimfair) Post #: 19

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