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RJ2

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Three weeks ago I purchased, at auction, approximately 1/3 of a Poison Bottle collection previously unknown to mainstream bottle collectors. .
I thought I paid way too much for what I ended up with, but liked the bottles none the less.
I've owned dozens of historical flasks, but never a good poison.
Until now. Now I'm hooked.

After just a little research, I'm thinking it was $1200 dollars well spent.

If you want any close-ups of any part of any bottle, feel free to ask.
(this pic contains only what I believe to be American poisons. I also scored a half dozen cool British poisons, to be discussed later.

Any input on history, and value appreciated.
Thanks - Ron
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CanadianBottles

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Those are some great bottles! I'm not an expert on poisons by any means but 1200 sounds pretty good for that collection. I'm betting that those are worth way more than that. I'm curious, what's the first blue one in the top row? The one to the left of the four brown ones. I don't remember ever seeing one of those before.
 

RJ2

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It is a "Riker Hegeman Drug Stores" 1 oz.

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Fine condition.


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Just checking on similar bottle sales , I would say you did very well! Overall , it's a beautiful collection.


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Nice to see your bottles! I had never thought of my 32-ounce Riker-Hegeman bottle as a poison, but I'll think about it differently now.

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you have some hard to fined poison's in that group . at lest wan it comes to digging.
 

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