digger dun
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ok, so I was in this low budget antique store, today, that was really more of a consignment junk store, and got a couple nice labeled bottles which I will post later under a different thread, but while eyeballing the place I noticed an amber figural pig bottle tucked into a crowded curio cabinet that was locked. I couldn't see much of it because of the poor lighting, but I could see that the lip was tooled. It had a price of $500 with a hash through it, marked down to $90. I did not have the time to ask the octogenarian in charge, partially obscured by piles of books, to unlock the cabinet so that I might have a better look, as my wife was pacing our stroller bound 10 month old back and forth in front of this shop while he wailed and moaned. So I decided to do some research on these pig bottles, and come back next weekend with a little education. First thing I hit on in the internet world was a Peachridge Glass post about 1970s repros, so that is probably what I saw in that cabinet. Anybody here have experience handling these pig bottles? What should I be looking for to distinguish a repro from the real thing?