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    Repro?

    That helps :)
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    Repro?

    Do tell!
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    Repro?

    Hey folks. I've read, and reread, this thread a number of times and researched the things I didn't know about (like pontils). This bottle came to us from a family member that passed who was an avid collector of high end political stuff. I'm hoping to deduce if this is an original. There's a few...
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    Box of many old, dirty, bottles

    Tom, I seriously do NOT want to have this become an ebay debate :D We've been with ebay continuously since early 1997. It ain't what it used to be. That's why sites like Mercari, Facebook Marketplace, and craiglist have become popular. Personally, we have alternate outlets to sell stuff that...
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    Box of many old, dirty, bottles

    My thoughts are similar. I've got all of them that had no contents and no closures, two thirds of them, soaking in a water/bleach bath. The others I'll clean one by one as needed, taking care regarding their corks or caps. As for eBay, I'll pass there. When we sell on eBay we lose about...
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    Box of many old, dirty, bottles

    So you're suggesting the throw away the other thirty two bottles? The box cost me $1.50 for 33 bottles. Even if I sell them all for $1 a piece, that's a 2,100% profit. If two or three of them are worth $5 or more, then so much the better. I have the means to sell them, but not the knowledge on...
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    Box of many old, dirty, bottles

    My original post wasn't about value - it was about what to DO with the bottles. Like I said, some of the bottles, one small three inch bottle in particular, still seems to have its original contents, now in a solid form (maybe it was a powder) which is slightly smaller than the interior length...
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    Box of many old, dirty, bottles

    Is that in it's current state, or after it's been cleaned?
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    Box of many old, dirty, bottles

    My wife and I were at a church flea market today, and in the middle of all the usual stuff was a cardboard box filled with obviously old, very, very, dirty bottles. Some of them still had dirt, as in soil, encrusted on them, while others looked like they might have been sitting in a barn for the...
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    Curious find

    For those that don't know what a puff is... https://www.antique-bottles.net/showthread.php?51922-Pontil-puff
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    Glass bottle with dead mouse in it

    Thanks for that, but drano, lye, and hydrochloric acid are not things we keep in or around the house. I'm going to go a more natural route. I'm going to add a little sugared water to the bottle and lay the bottle flat in my backyard, far away from the house, some place where a mower cannot reach...
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    Glass bottle with dead mouse in it

    So we have a glass bottle that's been standing up in storage for years. We have no idea if the bottle has any value, but probably not. A few years ago a mouse managed to crawl in the bottle and there's no way for it to get out. Now it is stuck to the bottom of the bottle and desiccated. How do...
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