The Red Book Of Fruit Jars has these listed.RB#10 says 1000 and up with the lid.Like capsoda said i have seen these sell for more than that and also less than that amount.Great Find!
The 13th edition of Kovel's lists a cloud cordial 10 1/2 inches tall in olive yellow for $750.Of course there prices have to be taken with a grain of salt.
I have 2 whiskeys that have the same exact embossed design on the neck and shoulders as your bottle.Both of mine are from Illinois.Also the Casper whiskies have the same embossed design as well. Here is a link to a previous post that shows a sample bottle with the sam embossed design as...
Hey wvhillbilly,Your clarksburg excelsior hutch is the nicest example i have seen.The Clarksburg Bottling Works hutch usually sells for between 50 & 75 dollars,but your hutch is much harder to find,and is easily worth twice what the other is worth.
Just got this bottle today out of a local shop.It is marked Ferdinand Westheimer & sons, Kentucky Whiskies, Cincinnati.I know this company made Red Top Rye,and i have seen quite a few of those bottles around,but i was wondering if anyone had any info on this one.I am not asking for what it is...
Although Akro did make a wide variety of items,including lamp parts.they did not make the pieces that are in privydiggers pics,in fact they did not make lamp parts for floor lamps.They made parts for wall lamps,and table lamps.Akro started out in Ohio in the early teens,but they were only there...
If the picture is glass,it is more than likely an ambrotype as osiaboyce said.Here is a link that will give you a little more info http http://www.floridamemory.com/OnlineClassroom/photographic-processes/ambrotype.cfm From my expieriance with ambrotypes,is it is best not to do anything to them...
A lot of the floor lamps of that style,and the smoking stands with the same kind of glass,where made by the Houze Glass Co. in Point Marion Pa.A lot of people mistake it for being Akro Agate,But akro never made smoking stands,and they did not make floor lamps.