cyberdigger
Well-Known Member
I love embossed BIM beverage bottles as much as anyone, and I have a few 'only knowns' myself, but I can't believe only one was ever made, it takes too much to produce a slug plate just to make one bottle, and a private mold would be even more extravagant for a single serving. The possibility does exist that there are 'only surviving examples' of a bottle like this, albeit a very slight one. My guess is the absolute minimum order was one gross (144) for a production run and I suspect if anyone could do that small scale of a job it was Karl Hutter.. so, in most cases, if you have the only one, it's just a matter of time before someone digs up another, or worse.. runs across a case of them.. []