Here is another pickle I had to wait about 26 years to get back. I originally bought it from my 11 year old digging buddy for 10 bucks when I was about the same age or a little younger. Probably about 1972. Claimed he found it in a caved in barn in the woods. Long story short, I got screwed out of it less than 6 months later by a guy who stopped at my house for a tag sale and asked if I had any bottles in the house. He saw this and started stuttering! I knew it was an iron pontil from reading Bottle News magazine but he said it was common and worth about 50 bucks. He waved a 100.00 bill at me and said I could always get another when I was old enough to drive to a bottle show. Years later I now knew I was duped but luckily found out who the current owner was. He had bought it right away from the guy who duped me who called him up crazed with this super pickle he just got from some kid out of a house. Anyway, he promised this one also as I again made a ridiculous standing offer and he felt I really deserved to own it one day because of the story. He eventually needed a roof badly so my money talked and he gave it up in about 1997/1998 or so. Embossed J. Mccollick & Co. New York. Probably always going to be my favorite as getting it back recaptured my youth and probably the best bottle I ever ran into outside of the collector circuit.