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    Old opium bottle with label

    Could anyone tell me what this might be worth? TIA.
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    Any info on this?

    This is the first bottle I've bought in a very long time. It was only a couple bucks in a thrift store. It has no seams. Was this a liquor bottle? Any ideas on age? It's got a few seed bubbles and is pretty irregular in shape.
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    My first bottle dig!!!

    Hey Gang, I have some friends who have a house on the coast of Washington State. It sounds like a great dig spot. Built in 1885, it had the bathroom added later. They are totally cool with me coming down and digging up any trash dumps or outhouses. They say the yard has been ravaged by...
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    show some skin...

    I found this curious thing at a garage sale the other day. It's hard to describe. Someone has taken layers of some sort of skin and sewn them together to form a little folding "booklet" type thing. They then cut into the top layer, forming drawings. Lastly, they rubbed ink into the cuts to...
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    a pretty cool old amonia

    I picked this up for a buck at a garage sale today. Love the label. Also, it's from Tacoma, WA and, believe it or not, there are people who collect, "Tacoma." Anyway, good to be on the forum again. Paul
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    Angier's Emulsion

    I bought this Angier's Emulsion of Petroleum today. It's sealed in the box! As much as I'm dying to, I can't bring myself to tear it open. Does anyone have a bottle of Angier's Emulsion? I just want to see the contents. The stuff sounds nasty and kinda dangerous. Paul
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    How much for a tumbler?

    Does anyone know what a good quality bottle tumbler retails for? Can you get them used? I've got the bottle bug bad enough (and enough bottles that are dirty enough) that I think this would be a good investment for me. Any info would be great. thanks, Paul
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    cool blue vile

    I got this blue vile the other day. It has a ground glass stopper inside. It is also threaded on the outside and has a metal dose cup that screws on and keeps the glass stopper in place. Although it has threads, the seam on the side does not go up through the neck of the bottle. I guess that...
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    is this a repro?

    A woman told me, "if you suspect a bottle could be worth money, and it's not a lot of money...BUY IT." I found this green coffin shape bottle today, and thats just what I did. It's definitely machine made. I don't have any current books on poisons. In the pic, the black thing near the bottom...
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    float, fire globe, target ball???

    The guy had this labelled as a "float." It has a strange sealed top thing and is flat on the bottom. Also, it's not the color of most of the floats I see. Could anyone tell me if its a fire grenade or target ball, any approx value or any other info? It is sealed but has nothing in it. As...
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    old apothacary vile?

    I got this today. I think it's an old lab or apoth. vile. It's amythest blue. Turn mold (no seams). It looks like maybe it had a ground glass stopper in it but thats long gone. It might have just had a cork. It's a little beat up but I think it's great. It has a mark on the bottom that...
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    poison bottles

    I have an old lab bottle. The kind with the ground glass stopper. It is not embossed. It has a couple of different paper labels on it. There are hand written instructions on the label. The other label is just a couple of skull and crossbones (really good ones) and says, "VENENO." On the...
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    bottles are worth less now?

    So, from some of the posts on this forum, and some price guides from 10 or so years ago, I have gathered that values for most bottles have dropped pretty drastically in the past 15 years. Is this correct? Specifically, a guy posted a pic of an opaque bottle he found somewhere on this forum...
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    Belfast Ginger Ale Co.

    This is an old Belfast Ginger Ale Co. bottle with an applied lip. It says "Belfast" and below that, "Trade B Mark" then below, "Ginger Ale Co" and S.F. below that. The bottom has the B in a triangle. It has a piece of metal in it that is conical and won't come out. I think I know what it is...
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    old holistic medicine

    Here are a couple of cool little vials. They still have the labels of the contents. There is a pic of the top of the cork that's in the one. They still have residue of whatever was in them. Pulsatilla is commonly known as "Pasque Flower." The other I'm not sure about. The Latin is, "Nux...
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    garage sale score

    I a paid a buck for this at a garage sale. Does that count as a "find?" I'm new here and it's an honest question. A guy that deals in Asian antiques said this was Sukothai pottery and the factory that made it burned down 500 years ago. Havn't been able to find much info on Sukothai pottery...
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    some of my bottles

    Here are some of my bottles. The green one in the back is "Saxlehner's Bitterquelle" with nice embossing on the bottom. My favorite is the one on the left, "The Mother's Friend" (probably the kid's too, given the contents...lol). In the front is "Foley's Honey and Tar" and the bottle with the...
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    Are these old?

    There is a, "working, rustic, frontier fort" near my house. I know they have an "authentic" smithy. I'm not sure if they do "authentic" period style bottles. These bottles seem, to me, like they can't be too old due to their great condition. They have pontil marks and the cones going up into...
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    Are they REALLY old?

    I'm new here. It dawned on me when I unwrapped my glass stuff that I had a bottle collection. I buy em in ones and twos and never thought about it untill they were all together. I have two bottles that I bought at a garage sale. They have pontil marks with seams up the side that end slightly...

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