Thanks for your advice everyone. I suppose that ebay was the right medium to sell the bottle. I had so many questions and general interest in the auction. Am now going to polish up the ones I'm keeping!
Dear All
Thanks for all your advice, help and enthusiasm. I have decided to keep all the bottles except for one that I've put on ebay. It is different to the others and so doesn't sit so well with the others as it's paler glass. The link as some of you have requested is...
Dear Kat
I appreciate your thoughts. At the moment aside from the release of 'Scooby Doo and the Black Glass Bottle Mystery' or the MTV Guide to Early English Sealed Onions, it is highly unlikely that my children are going to develop an interest! But I have decided that unless I can get good...
Dear Alan
Thanks for your positive posts. Mark Nightingale gave me those estimates and he did say that the continental seal was a difficult one to value. I'm going to give him some moire information and he will make an offer for the collection.
PS While I'm going into this in greater...
Dear All
thanks for all your help. this is the appraisal I have from an expert in the UK
"I would expect to see these fetch individually in auction (from which commissions etc need to be deducted), from left to right:
Large squat with remnants of...
Thanks for all your posts. Very much appreciated. I'm slightly confused as to the opinions regarding ebay. Is this the best place to sell or to buy? If I was to put them into auction here it would take a few months and would miss most of the world market. However, as I don't have any clue as to...
Hi everyone
I have got this group of bottles in a bequest from my grandfather and I wanted to sell them. Can anyone tell me the best way to do this in the UK. I can post more detailed pictures if needed. To give an idea of scale the large bottle is about 14 inches high and very heavy.
Any...