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Anyone of you have a particular specimen in your collection that is decidedly the best? If not, I totally understand.. me? I'm trying to reduce it to the top 100.. [;)]
 

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Best bottle at the present time has to be my 5 Centa. Out for less than a year in 1942 before the parent company the 3 Centa bottling company went out of business.
 

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Charlie,...I think you were MIA when I aquired this one,....Guntherhess helped me unravel that it was a (rare) Indian Med...Dr. Neebin is only mentioned twice on the Internet,...once in a story about Mark Twain...I picked this up at the Rochester NY bottle show last spring, when Tom and I set up there....I bought it thinking it was Monnone Pa.[;)]... It's "Dr. Neebin's "MONNONEPA"... Anyhow it's probably my favorite due to the fact that I bought it because I thought it was a cool looking med, and I could afford it.[:D],...Plus, the seller and I both thought it was an obsure Pa. med...I like that, and the fact it turned out to be something more,...plus the cool history behind it.

http://books.google.com/books?id=iDg6dQVcLjoC&pg=PA91&lpg=PA91&dq=Dr+Neebin&source=bl&ots=_m02ecJuaS&sig=eYpbLTTylQar2QPKDLSQDS7PZto&hl=en&ei=_hvrTO-IGIK0lQfos5HMAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&sqi=2&ved=0CB0Q6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=Dr%20Neebin&f=false

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how is BEST determined? Monetary value, sentimental value, or just the one that apeals to you?


Mine would fit all those categories, although it doesn't have any more sentimental value for me then lots of my other bottles.

It is the pig on the left. My most sentimental bottle would be the fish bitters. It was the first expensive (over $50) bottle that I bought for myself.


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how is BEST determined? Monetary value, sentimental value, or just the one that apeals to you?

All or any of the above.
 

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I would say that this flask might be my favorite, along with any from a hotel, notice that there are 8 lines of lettering on the slug plate, and the lettering is very crudely done, as if the mold maker was having either a very bad day, or was letting their kid do it.
THE/TWO OWLS/WINES LIQUORS/HH VANDEILEN/42 4TH AVE/COR 8TH St/N.Y (crudely done lettering) Pint; amber; strap side; letter plate.
 

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Here is my best. This is Lewistown's only pontiled bottle of any kind, c. 1855-1860. While not my most expensive bottle, it's up there. Smaller town Pennsylvania pontiled sodas are generally extremely desirable, especially with color like this. ~Jim






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Base. This soda has one of the deepest iron pontil scars I have ever seen.




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