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    Super crude and early little bottle and (matching?) dosage/shot glass pontil pair. Possible 18th century or earlier Colonial?

    I bought this sweet little pair of pontil items for $36 plus $10 shipping, so just under $50 all said and done. The bottle is about 2.75 inches. These are very blantantly and obviously legit, but hard for me to date exactly since the features could be present on stuff from the 1600's to like...
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    One of the nicest inks I've ever seen

    Sometimes, when I have looked at at really hardcore collections and pictures of rare colored bottles, I'm just blown away, especially umbrella and similar looking inks. I wonder where they find bottles that nice, or if they bought them, how they could manage to get them without breaking the...
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    Neat uncommon colored slick ink, paint, or medicine. Question about mold seam?

    Got this inexpensive piece recently and have a question about the seam. The bottle is a basic small cylinder with an odd light topaz grey color, but I'm not sure if the seams are early machine made or a weird mold. The glass is a bit whittled overall so could be a mold. The seams go all the way...
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    Just bought this sweet pontiled bottle. Seller says "milk fat tester"? Cologne? Sauce?

    Here's a bottle that caught my eye on eBay and I just bought it for cheap. So it's clear glass, 7 and 5/8 inches tall, and has this nice tapered, elongated shape. The seller says that they think it is a "milk fat tester" to the best of their knowledge, doesn't seem 100% sure. I googled milk fat...
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    EAPG Amberina Glass Cologne(perfect but missing stopper)

    To the best of my knowledge, looks blown in mold but could potentially be early machine made(I've still got a good amount to learn). The seams are crude and don't extend all the way to the top but come close. If mold blown, late 1800s to turn of the century is my guess. No idea on a maker. Great...
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    "Greatest Hits" From My Modest Collection

    As I mentioned in my new member intro thread, I don't have a very big collection and I'm sort of a "budget" buyer(nothing really over $100 for a single bottle, mostly $20-$40 pieces, haven't found any good spots to dig my own). That being said...I think I've got decent taste and an eye for good...
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    A couple sweet clear pontils I picked up on eBay

    Ordered these, they will be arriving soon to add to my collection. Neither was terribly expensive($30 for the little one and $50 for the handled one). This one's a little early New England utility, ink, or medicine And this one is a mid 1800s gorgeous and minty British utility with applied...
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    Too Good to be True? Utility, Giant Snuff, or Fake? Early Pontiled Cobalt Jar From "1805 House"(eBay win).

    Some pics incoming. This is a piece I won on eBay for $40, and even if it isn't real, it's a nice piece of handmade work that's worth what I paid just as a repro or art deco object...however, I'm hoping it's real, because then it's extremely rare and I practically stole it for $40. I bid on two...
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    Potentially Rare? Embossed " App. For Pat. No. 21" Odd Pontiled Pyramid Shaped Decanter or Lab Beaker??

    Ok, some pics here of a very cool, odd(and potentially rare?) bottle I picked up for like $10 or $12 at an antique store. It has an open pontil, a crude lip and some crude inner grinding for a stopper it's missing, and embossing on the bottom a bit on each corner (App. For)(No. 21)(Pat.). So I...
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    Post Your Early Utility Bottles(I've got a big Danish one from the late 1700's)

    I'm more of a budget collector who rarely spends over $75 on a single bottle, but early utilities are one category I just really love, even though they usually aren't cheap at all. My small collection boasts one bottle in this category, but it's a real catch. This is a late 1700s Danish utility...
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    New member hello/introduction: a bit about me and my collection

    Hello, my name is Garret, and I'm new to the forum but not to collecting antique bottles and jars. I first started collecting as a kid here in California in the late 90's when I found some old '30s bottles across the street in the desert, and I also bought a few at antique stores, a couple of...

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