Giant Collection of Blobs, lots of color!

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RIBottleguy

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A few months ago a guy showed up at our bottle club with a decent selection of bottles. He frustratingly dodged offers, his excuse being that he knew nothing about bottles, they were his fathers. I managed to pry three blobs from him and gave him my contact info. I was about to give up on hearing back from him when he called me last week. His mother was selling her house, and he had to sell the bottles. I went up to see them with another collector, and wow! There were a ton of blobs, mostly amber as well as some other sodas. We offered him a price and he accepted.
While we're still in the process of cleaning them, I can tell this will be fun! There were about 400 total, we're still cleaning and photographing them. Here are some of the better bottles.

The winner by far, a super rare teal green Burkhardt from Phila. Love the backwards S's too!
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Another wild color, a John Gebhardt in olive green!
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Two nice E. Wagners
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Nice Indian beer and a Creedmoor Beer from Brooklyn
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J. Gahm city! This is a whole collection in itself!
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What a fantastic score. That Burkhardt just rocks.
 

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Lends indisputable evidence amber IS a color to be cherished! YOWZAR! Nice grouping. Jack
 

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Nice catch !! That should keep you busy for a while !

I don't collect them myself, but many people do. They are
an undervalued area of the hobby IMHO.

Enjoy !!

Jim
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That is a fine group you bought. Super color on the Gahms. Glad you were able to bring them back out in the open.

Scott
 

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