Be careful, I started in 1969 collecting ruby red Schlitz bottles and was soon bitten. Now my collection is fairly large including Warner bottles, figural bitters, pharmacy, medicines, flasks and all sorts of old bottles. I still have several of the original ruby bottles we found. Michael
Just returned from visiting the Mansfield Ohio Bottle show. It was a great show packed with good stuff. Then on to Pittsburg PA to see a great collection of bottles from an old friend. Then up to Rochester NY to see the original building from H.H. Warner & Co where his patent medicines were...
There are some older item in there. The time period on these runs the gambit. Some are 1890s the aqua medicine and some with the base embossing are relatively new. Mixed dump? There are definitely things worth keeping in there somewhere.
Heading to Bloomington MN for the North Star Bottle show this weekend. I'll be showing collectors what they might be missing if they don't have a membership to the Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors. See you there stop in and say Hello.
I just purchased a large Warner bottle collection and will have just about any Warner bottle you are looking for for sale. Everything from Animal Cure to safe remedies co bottles, 4 cities, all the log cabin bottles. Anyone interested in a particular bottle to complete your collection? Want to...
Warner was very particular about his bottles. He won an injunction against Dr. Craig and got the rights to the bottle shape and the words & Liver connected to a Kidney cure. He had to make sure his patent and trade mark was kept so he only put up medicine in amber bottles. When the Ltd...
Very interesting find. If you look at it, it seems to be one of the reproductions from the 1960s. Like the cobalt blue one and the yellow one they are very good reproductions. Not like the crawford crown bottles that are marked on the bottom. Who made them is unknown. They all have a couple...