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    Tillotson insulator

    Great find. If you are planning on selling it. I am an interested party.
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    A Whatzit

    That is a small mouth pint size Kline jar stopper. Much more scarce than the regular size. I once had the jar. It's pretty rare.
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    Mason Jar 1858

    That is a midget mason jar. It should be fairly valuable. With the III embossing.
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    My wife and kids.........

    It looks to me that the sign is a repro. There are lots of different sign being reproduced.
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    My toughest bottle to clean.

    Any time I have to remove sticky gunk from a bottle I use oven cleaner. The stuff in the bottle will typically be organic. Oven cleaner will dissolve it. It might take a few days. And you may have to rotate or reposition the bottle to get to hard to reach areas.
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    Treasure found at local market-Bellarmine Or Bartmann Jug

    I don't know much about Bellermine jugs. But always found them quite interesting. If someone did make repro's of them I would have to wonder about it. What I don't see in the pictures provided is wear. A jug that has been around for over three hundred yeas is going to show evidence of that. I...
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    Teal green soda?

    There is no guess work involved here. Your teal green soda is in fact a Porter style bottle. These bottles contained brewed alcoholic beverages. There is one from Wilmington Del that has PORTER / ALE / CIDER embossed on the back. I don't see a pontil scar on yours. So it would date to 1858 or...
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    Psychology of collecting

    I have to agree with butchndad. Collectors are born not made. It's in our genes. I too, since I was quite young, was fascinated with old things. From coins to arrowheads. Then to Insulators then bottles. Next was 1858 dated Mason jars. And finally back to insulators. And lately I've been...
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    John Shrink's Superior Mineral Water, Cleveland

    Primarily you can tell by the type of applied lip. The tapered tops predate the blob tops. Also the shape of the bottle is sometimes a bit different.
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    Any of these authentically early?

    All three appear to be 20Th century reproductions. Or fantasy pieces. What I refer to as Mexican glass. Definitely not from the early/mid 19th century.
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    John Shrink's Superior Mineral Water, Cleveland

    That is one awesome pontied soda. Certainly 1840's with that great tapered applied top.
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    M. Swain C Island mineral water Not sure how old dug up in the 50s

    That is indeed a very nice bottle. I think that Iron Pontil sodas in that very light aqua color are very cool. They are probably more rare than the green one. But not being a colored bottle they are likely less desirable. But I also wanted to address the comments about when Iron Pontil bottles...
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    Anyone familiar with this type of bottle? Might be mid 19th century, odd top, ribbed, clear

    Definitely a decanter. Could even be cut glass. But the photos are too out of focus to tell. It kind of looks like its paneled rather than ribbed. A couple of better photos would help. And I would expect to see a polished pontil mark on the base.
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    Tooled crown top

    Looks European to me. Or brittish. I have no idea what the marks may indicate.
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    S.LEVINSON NEW YORK with embossed Lion.

    I picked this bottle a few weeks ago. In an antique mall. Along with a number of other nice bottles. I did a Google search on this one. And found nothing relating to this bottle. Or the bottler. But what did come up was a bottler in Chicago by the name of I Levinson. And curiously he used a lion...
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    NEEDS HELP ; TO IDENTIFY THREE BOTTLES ;

    Unfortunately there are no pontil scars on any of those bottles. They are far to recent for that. I think what you are refering to as a pontil is simply the mold seam on the base of the bottle. And they never closed the bottom of a bottle when blown. I would suggest doing a little reading on how...
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    Super cool 1850s pontil T & M bottle for sale

    The best thing about this piece is that it has not been dug. It was never in the ground. And is in very near mint condition as a result. A very nice example.
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    Cobalt blue updated photos

    There is absolutely no doubt that it is a repro. Any colored Mason's patent jar with a cross on the back is a fake. The one exception would be the midget pint size. Which I think is listed in amber. And possibly a few other colors other that aqua. But I don't have my Red Book handy to verify...
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    Super-Size Stoneware Pharmacy?

    I've never seen one as large as this. There are small stoneware bottles shaped like that. Which have a Pharmacy's name on them. I've seen Llewellyn in the small size. As well as at least one other Philly Pharmacy/drug store. I doubt that they were beer bottles. I would place these in the 1890 to...
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    Legit?

    It looks to me like it's an irradiated purple authentic jar. Although it's difficult to say for sure from that photo. It could very well be a modern repro. I've been collecting ground lip Mason's 1858 jars for a long time. Please post some better photos when you receive it.

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