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  1. Skoda

    Baltimore show finds

    It could be! I honestly thought it was a lemur at first. The hands being... actually grabby hands and not paws makes me lean towards raccoon, though. Hard to say haha!
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    Baltimore show finds

    Went to the Baltimore show today. Got some cool stuff. Wheeeeee FINALLY got an example of a University (of) Free Medicine Philadelphia. Bogus non-existent "university" quack garbage. Pretty scarce, I don't think they lasted that long. Also got this adorable pumpkinseed flask with a raccoon on...
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    ONE QUART Liquid bottle and small Gordon's...any information?

    The first bottle is a classic quart milk bottle. The "Saturn" you see is an Owens-Illinois glassmaker mark, the largest in the country at the time. The 17 is the factory code and the "48" (or 46, hard to tell in the pic) is the date code- this one being 1948. The second is a Gordon's Dry Gin...
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    Queen City Bottling Works Elmira NY Pony Soda with Lloyd closure!

    My quest to acquire as many different soda and beer closures grows more complete having won this Elmira NY pony soda with an 1885 Lloyd closure off eBay. Really neat closure system that seems to have only been used in the late 1880's. Oddly, Edwin Lloyd also patented and put into production a...
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    Miniature Pontilled Carboy

    As far as I'm aware, there are no reproductions of these. Anecdotally I've seen a lot of perfume bottles with intricate molds from this era in not-dug, "attic" shape, and I think it's simply because people found them to be pretty and I would imagine relatively expensive because of the contents...
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    Miniature Pontilled Carboy

    These show up fairly often and were seemingly very popular. I had one several years ago, actually. One came up for auction a few years ago that had the label and if I'm remembering correctly it was an eu de toilette or eu de cologne.
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    Loraine Hair Promoter

    Looks like a knockoff Ayer's Hair Vigor to me. https://www.si.edu/object/ayers-hair-vigor%3Anmah_715094 Ayer's were quite popular and they definitely spawned some imitations with that very distinct bottle shape.
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    Any thoughts on this spiderweb pattern bottle?

    That is definitely a shot/dose cap whiskey flask as pointed out, but at the very oldest it dates from 1935, which is the year that "Federal Law..." moniker was required on all liquor and wine bottles. That style of flask with the included aluminum cap died out in the 1950's from what I've seen...
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    Duffy Malt Whiskey - Miniature bottle

    That sounds like a sample sized Duffy's. They're not too hard to find, I've seen quite a few over the years, but they're definitely a lot less common than the standard sized examples.
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    Caw's ink, NY

    That iridescence was caused from it being buried in the ground for 100+ years- to quote an article on ancientglass.wordpress: Those inks are seemingly pretty common and would likely only fetch between $5-10. The "sick glass" iridescence does make it very visually appealing, though!
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    what is this mass bottle LA CROIX ?

    Small bit of additional information here. I have a LaCroix example with a different slug plate that is fitted with a Thatcher patent 1901 closure, which would imply that despite the company name evolving into Clicquot Club in the late 1880's, it seems likely that after the sale of the brand in...
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    Need help identifying age and company on decanter

    Looks to me like early 1900's, most likely a back bar bottle. The only L.S.Co. I know of is L. Speidel & Co. out of Boston, MA who were rather prolific beer bottle distributor during the turn of the century. Not certain if that's the same company monogrammed in your piece, but there is a chance.
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    WTB Unusual beer and soda closures

    Hi all, I have been trying to build up a collection of antique North & Central American beer and soda bottles with varying closures. Closure methods fascinate me and if I find the time, I'd love to put together a video series on them at some point. In the event that I don't I'm always interested...
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    John A Quin, Carteret, NJ Bottle

    That appears to be a "blob top" beer bottle, likely dating from the 1890's-1910ish. Your bottle isn't listed on the sodasandbeers.com database and given the lack of information on it I'd imagine it's rather rare. The only scrap of information on John Quin I could locate is this short blurb from...
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    GRANGER SARSAPARILLA

    Dr. Granger sold a few other products it seems- a Liver Regulator, something called "Vin-O-Vitae" (wine of life, was a quack mixture other companies peddled), and Uracura which I assume would have been a urinary disease cure. There's a 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act notice on the label and box, and...
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