Highest youve paid for a bottle?
- Thread starter carobran
- Start date
Welcome to our Antique Bottle community
Be a part of something great, join today!
kungfufighter
Well-Known Member
- Joined
- Feb 18, 2005
- Messages
- 1,276
- Reaction score
- 6
- Points
- 38
A lot.
Bixel
Well-Known Member
I paid $400 cash for a one of a kind local amber blob beer, that is attic mint. Most I have ever spent on a bottle, or ever will probably. Never told my parents about that one, since I was 18 at the time of doing this. The guy I bought it off of, I have been told paid somewhere around $1000 to get it, and he was clearing his stuff out.
Plumbata
Well-Known Member
Most I've paid for a bottle (to keep) was 125, for stoneware 325.00. I've spent more on bottles I knew i could resell for hefty profits, and far more on items for my collection of ancient and medieval weapons. I'd rather have an original halberd, Roman plumbata point, or other wicked implement of death than a bottle of equivalent value any day of the week, and I'd much rather expand my bottle collection by digging, when possible. If I had lots of cash the tune being sung would likely be different, though. And I'd have lots more halberds [
].
].Blackglass
Well-Known Member
$34 for a honey amber German beer. I don't spend too much on bottle, I just wait for the good deals to surface and then I jump on them.
Jim
Well-Known Member
I paid $1000 for a local blob beer that is the only example of its kind known to exist, and was glad to be able to get it. This bottle was found in the 1950s, and spent about 35 years in its original finder's collection, then another 20+ years in another collection before I acquired it. It's just an 1880s aqua tall blob, but it is the most "legendary" bottle from my area. No collection of Lewistown sodas and beers can be truly complete without it, so I had to have it.
This blob has a bruised lip, several dings and was dredged up out of the river nearly 60 years ago. It's a beautiful kind of hideous [] My two iron pontiled Lewistown sodas, both mint, were not quite as expensive. Show me another unknown/one-of-a-kind early Lewistown soda or beer bottle, and the green stuff will fly to get it into my collection. The only local bottles I won't throw good money at are later crown tops and milks. ~Jim
This blob has a bruised lip, several dings and was dredged up out of the river nearly 60 years ago. It's a beautiful kind of hideous [
] My two iron pontiled Lewistown sodas, both mint, were not quite as expensive. Show me another unknown/one-of-a-kind early Lewistown soda or beer bottle, and the green stuff will fly to get it into my collection. The only local bottles I won't throw good money at are later crown tops and milks. ~Jim
Dabeel
Well-Known Member
- Joined
- Mar 12, 2004
- Messages
- 901
- Reaction score
- 2
- Points
- 18
I'm sure some won't want to tell you how much they spent for privacy reasons.....but I'll tell you that I plan on spending $125.00 for a scroll flask since the chances of me digging one in Northern CA are next to nothing. I'm quite jealous of the historical flasks that you guys on the East Coast get to dig.
So to add one to my antique cabinet is going to cost me.....but that's okay as I really, really want one!
Doug
So to add one to my antique cabinet is going to cost me.....but that's okay as I really, really want one!
Doug
PrivyCheese
Well-Known Member
- Joined
- May 31, 2007
- Messages
- 744
- Reaction score
- 0
- Points
- 0
Intresting topic, I noticed that some of the serious collectors havnt said anything. You know who you are.....lol Me? I spent a $1000 on a ink. The guy was nice enough to let me have a peyment plan. Took a year to pay it off. He is a forum member and has done it for me more then once.
Seen some large cash change hands at the Baltimore show....Was at a Stoneware auction where one guy spent nearly $100,000 in one day on stoneware.
Seen some large cash change hands at the Baltimore show....Was at a Stoneware auction where one guy spent nearly $100,000 in one day on stoneware.
Similar threads
Latest threads
-
-
-
-
-
-
Haven't been able to do much this year, but this is what I came up with.
- Started by Mailman1960
- Replies: 2