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    Cracked Top or Not?

    All good info anyways Pops. sometimes, way back when, we used to use, reuse and then use again things until they could not be used again. If I were a rancher and wanted to put this bottle into use to hold turpentine, but not cut me, what better way than to grind the sharp edges. We gotta...
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    Tumbling Before and After photos

    Good job on those. I have a few I would like to clean, but not to be a buzz kill, I kinda like a bit of patina on my bottles, I call it provenance. Haha :)
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    Bottle collecting for over 50 years and cannot ID this one

    Could it be a candlestick holder, but you say the opening is 1/4”, so, uhm, skinny candles?! LOL Strange piece you have there‍. Thanks for the viewing.
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    Estate sale find

    Yep, Pitkin swirl flask in a somewhat rare color,,,, good find at an estate sale. I have a green one that was dug and the certain style of these pieces are the neck and some of the shoulders, that are recessed into the body or stand up proud on top of the body, like yours. Nice flasks, I wish I...
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    Hey Everyone, just joined and found this bottle

    Looks like a 3 part mold ale bottle in dark olive green (black glass). Dug many of them in the Big Easy, being a port city and all,I'd have to say most, if not all, were manufactured out of the USA. Usually date around C1880. Now I did have one, very similar type(not a 3 part mold), that was a...
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    Dream Dig: Barrel bitters dug from an incredible dump!

    Good find. Any bitters found nowadays are good. Here’s hoping you find the lemon yellow Old Sachem,,,,,,, that’d keep the home fires lit. Heckler auctions, close to $5000.
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    Black Glass bottle found scuba diving in the bahamas

    Very nice black glass rum or whiskey. I have several with that “sea washed” finish, that they get from being down in Davey Jones’ Locker,,LOL. I jokingly call them my “pirate bottles”, as they are from that 1760 to 1820 era. Most are very crude and that’s what makes them more desirable to...
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    Inherited bottle

    Very nice historical flask as others stated and a nice color to boot. To display these type flasks, is to use felt or other sticky thingies at points on the bottom to stabilize it best. If it has any rocking to it, this is a must to do……. don’t ask me how I know.
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    Antique bottles - value sought

    In reference to the last pic of the long slender piece, I've dug these in the Big Easy before and it was always told that they were possibly "gun oil bottles" for keeping the shooting irons from rusting outside in inside, but more likely wine testers that would fit thru the plugged hole in the...
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    Who Collects Black Glass?

    Very, very nice piece. Highly prized bottle from my neck of the woods. He was only in business for a couple years and the bottles for the "cure" sure are nice. I dug the M.A.Micklejohn Gout and Rheumatism O.P. version back in the 1980's in a privy full of 1880's hutchinson type bottles. I...
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    Ink well help

    Does it have a rough/sharp pontil scar on the base? The grey tint of the glass may indicate it is what's called, "flint glass".
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    I got a rock

    Sounds like it may be as others have said, a granite ballast stone. If you are close to where any old shipping channels are, it's a real good possibility. In the Big Easy, where I'm from, we find them all the time and they were actually used to make roads with, back in "the day". Found then...
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    Reselling tips and questions

    Free shipping attracts more possible buyers, but then it costs you out of your profits. It used to be if free shipping was offered there is some kind of "perk" ebay offers to entice it, but I'm not sure of that because eBay has changed a lot since I first started selling on it. They have cut...
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    Mobile Alabama Bottle & Collectibles Show & Sale, Saturday March 26, 2022

    Always a good show to attend.
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    Help to ID Bitters Bottle

    Yes willong, Peachridge Glass was the big reveal on this one, my thanks to Ferdinand Meyer of Peachridge Glass. As fate would have it and my loss of memory, I forgot to follow up on the reveal with the forum, my bad. Information in our hobby is so very important and no information is very hard...
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    Peychauds Bitters

    Nice clean Peychauds. It’s a Louisiana company bottle from New Orleans and has been around since mid 1800’s. I’ve dug several versions of them, some with iron pontil, some with seals, some with embossing only. If I’m correct, one version is used in our New Orleans drink, the Sazerac.(usually in...
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    Run in with the railroad bulls.

    It’s always been a problem down here of diggers leaving holes open, yards messed up enough to where the owner would never let any diggers back in. in the 70’s to the mid 80’s was some of the best digging down here, contractors would even let us in to dig UNTIL the unscrupulous diggers would...
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    This could be nothing but I liked the looks of it

    Hard to tell, but in pic 5, it looks like it may be an iron pontilled piece. Very decorative piece and likely was in some aristocrats home.
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    1848 Knickerbocker Soda Water Bottle

    It's already for sale on ebay....... http://www.ebay.com/itm/112018751473?_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT Here's another one for sale also: http://www.ebay.com/itm/112020911690?_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT
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    1848 Knickerbocker Soda Water Bottle

    I agree with botlguy, don't clean that patina off, it adds character to the piece.It's not original to the manufacturing process, it's caused by the chemicals,salts, PH and other factors in the ground where it was buried. In picture number 3, the light shines thru the top a bit and I see that...

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