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Found this one awhile ago in a 1870's Privy. Anybody know how tough it is or value. You'll see a 100 Duffy Malt Whiskeys on ebay for every one of these it seems. Curios if rare or desireable?
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I'm surprised it's so low, I would have expected a bottle like that to be a lot more desirable.
It is a large city, in general when a bottle is from a large city there were more produced (not always), in particular Philly being as old as it is collectors want the older stuff, when I say older because this is an old bottle I mean pontil and earlier bottles, so this bottle is not quite that old. I think it is a mistake for collectors to overlook bottles like this, but it happens so the demand for them is not high, the same happens with the Philly beers, but that is good for me! Demand is affected by desirability and desirability is quite often affected by demand. Quite the conundrum. Sounds like Sarasota941 wants it and willing to pay cash. I think it is pretty sweet, but I don't want it. So where does that put it on the desirability scale?
 

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Found this one awhile ago in a 1870's Privy. Anybody know how tough it is or value. You'll see a 100 Duffy Malt Whiskeys on ebay for every one of these it seems. Curios if rare or desireable? LEON.
There is a faRcebook collectors group for Philly bottle collecting, would you like for me to post this and see what they have to say?
 

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It is a large city, in general when a bottle is from a large city there were more produced (not always), in particular Philly being as old as it is collectors want the older stuff, when I say older because this is an old bottle I mean pontil and earlier bottles, so this bottle is not quite that old. I think it is a mistake for collectors to overlook bottles like this, but it happens so the demand for them is not high, the same happens with the Philly beers, but that is good for me! Demand is affected by desirability and desirability is quite often affected by demand. Quite the conundrum. Sounds like Sarasota941 wants it and willing to pay cash. I think it is pretty sweet, but I don't want it. So where does that put it on the desirability scale?
One could amass a relatively large Philly blob collection for $100.
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There is a faRcebook collectors group for Philly bottle collecting, would you like for me to post this and see what they have to say?


I would personally be interested in what the Facebook site says about this bottle. I haven't seen 1 in a few years but I have dug and seen quite a few of this particular variation. I definitely hope I didn't low ball this bottle, I respect Hemihampton.
 

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