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Picked this up for $5 bucks today... I have no idea what I am doing with repro's but I knew right away it was a repro. The roundness of some of the panels and the lips appearance said repro on it. Plus, it was sitting next to a bunch of clevengers and wheatons.

Anyone know anything about the year of this bottle or how I would/could determine it.

Joel

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JOEL...hard ta say for sure from the one pic, but it looks like the real deal to me...Am not familiar with any Pikes Peak repRoes of this type...."type" being: made in Pittsburgh glass houses.
You got a steal for $5. [:D]
 

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Looks right to me, even the aqua. Give a detail. Back side, anything in the oval, size? MORE PICS, WE WANT MORE PICS!!!!!
Besides, $5, how can you go wrong. Sell it on ebay as a wheaton for $105.
 

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WEll maybe I should go back and get the rest of them. she had a Washington Clevenger, purplish and couple of others including a Jenny Linde.
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Guys,

I am rocking the Lakes Region right now. I will post more pics when I get home. I know the lady and will call her tonight to secure the rest if they are still available. I had no idea repros's were that valuable. I see these pikes peaks all the time. There is allot of bubbles through it. The lip is very tooled and drippy. It is wicked whittled!!
It is a qt at least. I will measure it when i get home.
Thanks for the thrill, if even for a short time. Someone here once said, even a blind sow will find a corn cob every once in a while.
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Looks like the real deal to me also. It may have been mixed in with a bunch of repros.
There is a member of this forum that bought a Green Dexter Loveridge Bitters at a church sale ( if I remember correctly ) for I believe 5.00 . She sold it a few months later to a California collector for 10,000.00 . She was not a bottle collector and had no idea what she had.....she just thought it was pretty . I about died when she posted pics of it on the forum and told her story.

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Things like that can open a whole new topic of ethical debate. Is it any different to know a repro, not say it and sell for big $$$ than to know it's real and buy it as a thought repro for next to nothing?
Hmmm? I'm thinking someones getting suckered in either circumstance.

See this too.
https://www.antique-bottles.net/forum/m-107003/mpage-1/key-/tm.htm#108639
 

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It does raise many ethical questions. I suppose knowledge is power. I bought it thinking it was a repro and it may turn out to be a real one. If that is the case, I will probably give her more money for it, as I know her.

The question raised brings to mind when I got ripped off, paying $106 dollars for something that was a repro. Nobody wanted to give me my money back. I suppose it all comes out int he wash. I am attempting to contact her but first I want to make sure it is real.

Here are some more pictures. It stands 9 inches tall. The lip does have an applied top.

The bottom is smooth, I suspect a hindge mold (?). There is no line going through the cental mark.

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