CanadianBottles Thanks so much for the link to the trade card...I pulled the trigger on that...not only does it reference Bicycle Club, its a v unique cool advertising card in its self....so thanks again...We'll see if it still smells like fresh cut hay when it gets here : - )
Thanks Bruce....wow great info....so you apply gun oil lightly...and you leave it in there?...kind at art even getting a swab into it...the pipe cleaner wire sounds good...
So the chemicals in the perfume etched the glass?...
-carlton
https://cleopatrasboudoir.blogspot.com/2014/01/lazells-perfumes.html
http://collectingvintagecompacts.blogspot.com/2011/03/lazell-perfumer-brief-dance-in-sun.html
Hello Everyone...I haven't posted on here for long time...I collect 19th - early 20th century sports display pieces...most all...
know what ya mean...
American Pontil...very observant...that was early entry day...early entry at the Reno FOHBC National in 2012 was a huge crowd...so I just don't get it...Early entry at most antiques venues are usually the busiest time for selling...as that's when most of the serious...
http://www.sportsantiques.com/2018_bottle_p1.htm
Hello Carlton Hendricks here...Please know I have posted 170 Photos of the FOHBC 2018 National Bottle Collectors Convention August 2nd-5th in Cleveland, on my site....see link above... This is a sub-feature of my coverage of the National Sports...
A friend in the Sacramento CA area asked me if these bottles had any value...someone gave them to her and she wants to sell them and donate the money to a gofundme...can anyone help....thanks
What are the dimensions?...Anyone have an opinion what it was used for?...was it used commercially?...for what product?...Spirit Bear sir...your speculation it was made by a club is interesting...sounds possible...what kind of club would make a bottle like this...I could see this made in rural...
Here's my latest greatest eBay pick up...This candy container was produced in Argentina...the seller told me Quote "yours has engraved on its front wheel "Industria Argentina" Unquote..It was produced for the Mu-Mu Candy Company in Buenos Aires Argentina...the styling of the art looks...
Hi Eric, I'm fine thanks hope you are as well...yes nice to be on here after so long...but I don't find many sports bottles to post...
_____________________________________LtlBtl, Thanks for the link....yes based on that website there was indeed a Rugby Rye made (or sold anyway) in...
I picked up this bottle earlier this week at the 2014 National Sports Collectors Convention in Cleveland...I got it from a dealer from PA...but later learned he got it off eBay in February 2014...for a fraction of what I paid which doesn't doesn't bother me in the least I'm so glad to have...
Jim,
Yes thank you so much for putting me in touch with Mike...it was the missing link....
Boy if there is one thing I could say about antique bottles is there are so many avenues...I gravitate to the figurals since I collect all sorts of antique figural sports things....statues, trophies...