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  1. Skoda

    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...
  2. Skoda

    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...
  3. Skoda

    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...
  4. Skoda

    Weird Lightning Closure variant that failed

    Hi all, nothing super exciting here but I did think it was interesting enough to share. I won a pair of NH blob beers last week and I was intrigued by the closures, which looked a little different from the usual Lightning closure. Turns out they are in fact Lightning closures, but a modified...
  5. Skoda

    Estate sale grabs!

    MoCo Maryland has like... No antique bottle collectors, which means there's so little that shows up at yard sales, antique stores, thrifts, etc. When they do show up however, it's like nobody wants them? It's wild, I found these three at a SECOND day sale and priced way undervalue for what they...
  6. Skoda

    What's up with this color?

    Hi all! I just took a vacation to the UK, first time overseas and it was an amazing time! During the trip I hit up a few antique stores, and while visiting Haworth I found this bottle. It's a typical 3-piece mold whiskey cylinder with convex neck and applied lip, but I was immediately struck by...
  7. Skoda

    Very unusual Liquozone (Sample?)

    Hi all, this came up for sale on eBay last week and I immediately purchased it because I've never seen anything like it. 4" tall, lead or pewter screw cap, BIM with a ground lip, vaguely flask shaped and clearly designed to be carried in the pocket. Obviously this looks absolutely nothing like...
  8. Skoda

    Another thrift recovery

    Once in a blue moon an actual antique bottle shows up at the thrifts around here, and yesterday was my lucky day! Not exactly something of high value, just an unembossed hand blown tooled-top cobalt blue cylinder with a 3-piece mold, but still pretty nice looking and is already making a great...
  9. Skoda

    Puce flask with sheared lip, repro?

    Hi all, I found this at a thrift today and I was hoping someone might have some input here. This is an odd looking bulbous flask that measures 7 1/2" tall and looks to be either dip mold or freeblown. The base is pontiled and gently refired but not polished and the lip appears to have a refired...
  10. Skoda

    Baltimore show grabs

    That was easily the largest show I've been to thus far, so much I wish I could bring home with me but I can only spend so much. Still got some neat stuff there! Ended up with a super hard to find Dr. Rose's Cough Syrup, a NY quart blob top with a very rare Improved Magic Closure, a scarce...
  11. Skoda

    Thrift stores around here are wild

    I was out thrifting just now and I found this just sitting among some junk that they put out today. I live in Silver Spring MD and the developed MoCo area as a whole is relatively new, so antique bottles do not show up in thrifts very often here- I thought this was a replica fantasy bottle at...
  12. Skoda

    Strange Geo Pfeiffer Jr. Camden NJ soda with 1883 Roorbach closure!

    I actually won something off eBay for once (I constantly get outbid on everything, I'm sure it's not an uncommon plight) and it happened to be this really neat 1883 Roorbach closure piece! Most bottlers who utilized this patent had 2 lugs in their bottle molds to catch the marble, but on this...
  13. Skoda

    New beer bottle closure discovered: Morgenstern

    Hi all, One of the (few) highlights of last year for me was a bit of research I dove into on a bottle I had acquired several years back. It's a circa early 1870's era Valentine Loewer Lager Bier out of NYC with a fully intact and functional closure (sans the rubber being hard as a rock)...
  14. Skoda

    Bizarre base marking/pontil combo on import black glass

    Hey everyone, been getting a bit more into collecting again and I remembered this odd example I picked up several years ago and never made a thread on. It's a black glass ale/port/whatever imported piece from the 1850's-70's with a typical 3-piece mold and is perhaps a bit wider than most I've...
  15. Skoda

    Small pontiled amber utility jar- real deal or repro?

    Hi everyone, been a while! I was in a local antique shop today and came across this for cheap. There are very, very few antique bottles that turn up in the DMV area so finding anything is a good day in my books. This piece measures 4 5/8" tall, light amber glass, open pontil base, bimal (not...
  16. Skoda

    Dana's Liver & Kidney Pills!

    Been a while since I posted on here! I moved to MoCo Maryland a year and a half ago and I soon found that finding antique bottles here is... Next to impossible. Compared to my previous stomping grounds of rural NH, there is no comparison. I have not added a single bottle to my collection since...
  17. Skoda

    Suncook NH pharmacist bottle with a BEAVER

    Hey guys, been a loooooong time since I posted on here. I've since moved from NH to MD and have found Montgomery Co. to be simply AWFUL for bottle collecting- I haven't added a single bottle to my collection from local purchases since moving in March, aside from a backpack full I purchased...
  18. Skoda

    6 Months Worth of Acquisitions Show-Off Thread

    Hey all, its Blackglass. I got locked out of my old account because of that password issue that happened when you guys changed the site over this new Vbulletin layout and I never bothered to get it fixed, so I just created a new account. Anyhow, here's some stuff I've acquired in the past 6...

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