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LayerSlayer

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Let's stick with value.

We all have bottles we love where money doesn't matter but I am talking about money bottles.

Here is mine:
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I bought it for $10.
 

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Very,very nice! The way it is sitting on that post puts the "BOTTLE BREAKING FEAR" IN ME!
 

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Here's one of my better Baltimore Pontils

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J.W. Bull's - Diarrher Curative - Baltimore


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Here is mine. This is a pontiled Pittsburgh medicine bottle, c. 1840-50s. The sides are embossed PREPARED BY// H. VAN. VLECK. It is the only one of its type known to exist, as far as I know. There are other variants of H. Van Vleck bottles, but I have not seen another like this. ~Jim



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Side embossing:



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I am told that this is the best bottle I have . Bought it in an anitque store in Tucson Arizona about ten years ago .

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That shape is unreal.

I've never seen anything like that.

As far as that cobalt demijohn goes, I went to a flea market my wife loves to go to and looked through the the old guy's bottles. It was the usual screw top hell. I was on my way out when he stopped me and reached on a high shelf for a bottle wrapped in wicker that was hidden behind a picture. He asked if I liked it. I tried to act like it was nothing when I saw that cobalt color and sloping collar. I asked what he wanted for it and he said $10.

It pulled almost $700 on Ebay.
 

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Top of the line for me was the famous Pepsi Hutch from Escambia Pepsi Cola Bottling Co. in Pensacola FL owned by Jacob Lipps. I have others that I like more but when the hutch left my collection it fetched 2 grand.

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Heres a Butler ink from Cincinnati O. 1845 to1850S. Not sure what its really worth and it doesn't really matter as this is my top ink and its staying in my collection for a long time to come the Lord willing . I do know that a lite olive colored one went for 10,000 from the Roger Long collection and this is the only grass green one I've seen . Theres quite a few out there in aqua that sale for a few hundred .Anyway made my day the day I dug it .Thanks for looken and as allways good luck diggen and finding to all.
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One of my best bottles. "Jacob Pinkerton Wahoo & Calisaya Bitters" I found in the river a couple of summers ago. Not sure of the value. Any one have any idea?? But I know its one of my best bottles. Definatly stays on the top shelf for as long as I'm around. The picture doesn't show it, but its more of a gasoline color or light honey amber.

Runner

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