I picked this bottle up along with some others a couple months ago from a seller on eBay who lives in a town near the end of the panhandle in West Virginia. It was dirt cheap so I went ahead and bought it. The bottle is of course nuked, but take a look at the top. I'm guessing the bottle and top...
I've spoken with that seller serial times about a year ago. He had a huge collection of around 1000-2000 bottles he was selling off. I remember he had more nicer ones too, I wouldn't expect him to sell a fake. [8|]
It appears he took a Wine bottle, colored it with a Purple marker, and enlarged the label 8x the normal size with MS. Paint! Makes me laugh everytime I look at it, how ridiculous it is and how somebody will probably buy it.
I don't believe I've ever seen one before. The register it's self looks okay, all the parts of the body match. The "coin bar" doesn't seem right though. Seems like the glass part at the top should be different, Mid-Late 1800's rather than early 1900's, and the scripting on the sign looks wrong...