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    Info Wanted On Kiderlen Rotterdam Green Barrel Gin Bottle

    I picked this bottle up last weekend at our local bottle show, and I can`t find any info on it. It`s barrel shaped, 8 7/8" tall, and has a square slug plate on the front with "Kiderlen Rotterdam / Celebrated Old Gin" embossed in it. Unfortunately the neck and lip have been replaced with a top...
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    What Do These Lids Fit?

    I`ve been going through my boxes of jar lids that I`ve dug over the years, and I`ve been able to place all of them except for these 3. I`m hoping some of you jar nuts can help me out. I`ve gone through my jar books without much success, they don`t always give good descriptions of the lids. Has...
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    Mid 1800`s Pair Pressed & Blown Decanters

    I picked this pair of decanters up at a local flea market last year, and I`d like to find out who made them, if possible. I know that is asking a lot with this early glass, but someone here may know the pattern or something else about them that may ring a bell. I doubt that the stoppers belong...
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    Northampton, Mass. Batter Jug

    My other addiction is antique engines and iron, and I found this in the flea market of the Central Mass. Gas & Steam Engine Club`s show in Orange, Mass. last year. It`s a pottery batter jug made by the Crafts Pottery in Whately, Mass. in the 1860`s-70`s. It`s stamped "Sold By Augustus` Clarke...
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    Cobalt Tippecanoe Style Top, What Was It?

    I found this top while digging in back of my house on the bank of the brook. It is very similar to the mushroom type top on a Tippecanoe bottle, but it`s cobalt blue. I`ve looked through my bottle books and can`t find anything. I remember way back in maybe the late 1970`s that there was an...
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    Unusual Small Insulator

    Here`s a small one I just picked up, and I can`t find anything out about it. It`s very crude, is 2 1/8" tall, has a hole going through the side, a V-groove on the top, and an indentation on the base where it may have been on the end of a post and then tied down. I think it may be an early...
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    To Display Or Not To Display

    This is associated with my post about doing a major weeding out of my Bixby bottles because I can`t find a major show here in the northeast to display them at, for me if others can`t see what you have when a collection reaches a certain point, then it`s time to just keep it for your own...
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    Weeding Out My Bixbys!

    I`ve decided that it`s time to do some major weeding out of my Bixby collection. I`ll still have the very best pieces for myself, but I can`t find a major show in the northeast to display them at, (see my upcoming rant in a different post), so I`ve decided it`s time to share them with the other...
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    Bixby Bottles

    There was some interest in info on Bixby shoe polish bottles, so here starts a series on what I know about them, starting with the first ones covered by Bixby`s March 6, 1883 patent, which covered the bulbous shoulder. In the patent, the applicator sponge would squeeze out any excess blacking at...
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    Who Made Bixbys?

    I`ve got a question for those of you who are more knowledgeable than me about glassworks outside of New England, where were the Bixby shoe polish bottles made? I really doubt that they were in New England because of the large variety of colors that they come in, with a couple molds bein found in...
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    1860`s Washing Machine

    Here`s a prize I recently picked up at an auction, a hand cranked Nonpareil washing machine made by Oakley & Keating of N.Y. The only info I`ve found so far are a few advertisements in some American Agriculturist magazines from the early 1860`s. I first saw this machine many years ago when a...
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    Unusual Blown Lamp or Cologne?

    I just picked this thing up in a box lot at an auction, and my first thought was that it was a lamp, but the lip is a little more flared out than the whale oil lamps I`ve seen with this kind of lip. Then I`m thinking possibly a cologne bottle, but the inside of the lip isn`t ground for any kind...
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    Nice Hopkins Lady`s Leg Bitters

    I finally got out to do some digging for the first time this year. I went back to an old town dump in my area that I`ve dug off and on for the last 20 years, and it has given up some nice bottles older than it`s late 1800`s age. Before this find, the best bottles to come out of there are some...
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    Beware The Evil Potstone!

    I picked this up at an auction today, the price was right and I liked the bottle, it has some wear on the sides that made me think that it was a good original one. It was in mint condition except for a large potstone in the side, but it looked harmless enough. The bottle is cased glass...
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    More CT Pieces From Somers Show

    It looks like some other forum members found some good pieces at the Somers, CT show yesterday. I wasn`t able to find any Bixby stuff, but I did find 4 nice CT made bottles to add to my shelves. Here are 2 Westford demijohns, the first is a scarce olive amber color for this mold, which is a 3...
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    A Westford/Willington Whiskey

    Here`s another one I picked up at an auction today, a 3 piece mold dark olive whiskey with a label for Keller`s Old Bourbon Whiskey bottled by Lee & Osgood, Norwich, Conn. The base matches perfectly with bases found at the Westford, CT Glassworks site, but since it is olive green, which was...
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    A Couple More Numbered Bixbys

    A big thank you to Slag Pile Driver for a couple more Bixbys with the number on the front. I had the 11 but it is light green and damaged. I didn`t have the # 26 so that one fits right in with the rest. Just goes to show what a great bunch of people are on here! So Slag, let me know what you are...
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    Odd Colored Whittemore & Bixby

    Here`s a Whittemore shoe polish that I recently picked up on fleebay to match the Bixby I have with the same weird coloration. They are light green with amber towards the base, almost as if the amber was heavier and settled to the bottom. It`s my guess that they were probably made from the same...
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    More Bixbys For The Collection!

    Last week I had an email from a forum member who sent me an ad from Craigslist in NH where a guy was selling a bunch of Bixby bottles cheap. To make a long story short, I finally went up there today, (we finally had a good day with no snow!), a 6 hour round trip, and bought two boxes of Bixby...
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    Bottle Blow Pipe?

    I picked this up at an auction recently, and it looks a lot like a blow pipe for blowing glass, but I`m not sure, I`m far from being an expert on these things. It is 4 feet long, the tube is rolled steel tubing, the mouthpiece end is brass, and the glass end has a brass hook thingy in it with 2...

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