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New Here from Michigan

Welcome to the site, Wyatt. There are several Michigan collectors here. I live in Waterford. Bruce
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- Post #11
- May 25, 2022
- Forum: Introductions
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A word of advice to ebay sellers...

Whenever you win the bidding on eBay and the seller "forgets", "loses", or "discovers something new" and doesn't send the item - REPORT THEM TO eBAY! Those are just excuses because the seller has seller's remorse for selling the item too low. They should be banned from ever selling items again...
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- Post #27
- Jul 14, 2021
- Forum: General Chat About Bottles
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pics of my display cabinet

The ribbons were from whole display exhibits I had assembled. They're all disassembled now and I stupidly didn't take pictures. The titles of the displays were: Blobtop Beers with Original Contents, Different Blobtop Closures, Cobalt Blobtop Beers and Teal Blobtop Beers.
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- Post #37
- Mar 17, 2021
- Forum: Displaying and Photographing
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pics of my display cabinet

Sorry, I didn't want to focus on the size of my collection, just the frustration in getting enough display cases to show it. yacorie - I collect blob beers from all over. I have about 45 CT blobs (unfortunately none for sale or trade right now).
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- Post #35
- Mar 17, 2021
- Forum: Displaying and Photographing
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New beer bottle closure discovered: Morgenstern

I don't remember where I found the bottles, but I try to collect different closure types. It's great we have this web page to share our discoveries!
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- Post #18
- Mar 17, 2021
- Forum: New to the Collection
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pics of my display cabinet

Well, here's one of my display cabinets, but the other pictures show part of the rest of my collection!
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- Post #27
- Mar 16, 2021
- Forum: Displaying and Photographing
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New beer bottle closure discovered: Morgenstern

Here are two bottles from the same brewer Valentine Loewer shown in the original post in this thread. The larger one is embossed with Lager Bier and the smaller embossed with Weiss Bier. The Lager has the Morgenstern closure as shown in the patent drawing above. The smaller has fragments of a...
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- Post #15
- Mar 16, 2021
- Forum: New to the Collection
Cronk.jpg

Rare one of a kind early Cronk Beer. Twelve sided, iron pontiled, 9-1/2" high.
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- Media item
- Dec 11, 2017
- Comments: 0
- Category: Bottles and Glass