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medicine bottle,what year is it? - 12/9/2003 1:31:08 PM    bottlesome   Posts: 1 Joined: 12/9/2003 Status: offline my boyfriend dug up brown medicine bottle with cork still in top,it has 100-500mils going up the side of it,the markings on the bottom are7<0>6 the number 8 is at the bottom of the zero,and it looks like an (I) in the middle of the zero,can anyone please help date and tell me if it's worth anything.thank you so much Post #: 1

RE: medicine bottle,what year is it? - 12/9/2003 3:12:36 PM    woody   Posts: 1658 Joined: 10/29/2002 From: Gilmanton, New Hampshire Status: offline Alot of times when you find numbers embossed on the base of the bottle they are mold numbers from the glass manufactuer. Usually these are indicative of a machine made bottle, but not all the time. I don't think your bottle has much monetary value as they are fairly common. Keep looking, though, because the next ones you find might be older. _____________________________ Woody (in reply to bottlesome) Post #: 2

RE: medicine bottle,what year is it? - 12/9/2003 3:25:02 PM    kawdog   Posts: 192 Joined: 10/22/2003 From: Ruston Louisiana Status: offline Here is a site that is sometimes helpful in determining who made the more recent bottles and their age. http://www.angelfire.com/tn/traderz/marks.html (in reply to bottlesome) Post #: 3

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