mainebottledigger
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Just purchased my first 2 bottles at a local flea market this past weekend.
I decided to put my metal detector aside last month when I stumbled upon a few huge trash pits with 100's of bottles just laying on the ground. Now Im digging, collecting, selling, and just recently buying.
I have a table at a local flea market and I noticed 2 new guys setting up a table with bottles. By the time I got there there was a crowd of other sellers looking at them. I quickly glanced and grabbed the best 2 bottles I could see for $5 each.
Im very new to this hobby, but feel I got a great deal and I will be looking for these guys again real soon.
My pics are too large to post so Ill try to describe them as easily as possible.
The 1st bottle is an X-Zalia medicine bottle, clear, applied top, with full paper labels intact (why i bought it)
the reverse has an embossed seal of cat of nine tails, made in boston.
Its not in my bottle book, but I see one listed on ebay for around $20 without a label.
I really like this bottle. X-Zalia was a cure all, snake oil, medicine that cured anything from herpes, blood poisoning to dandruf. My question is, how much more value does a bottle with a full paper label intact bring?
My seconond bottle is an amber colored beer bottle, id say early 1900's, it has a smiling sun embossed, and made by obermeyer and liebman (i think) in New York. This is also not in the bottle book. The only other one I can find on internet search is a museum piece! Im trying not to get too excited because Im sure it cant be that rare.
Pics to come...any help on posting them?
I decided to put my metal detector aside last month when I stumbled upon a few huge trash pits with 100's of bottles just laying on the ground. Now Im digging, collecting, selling, and just recently buying.
I have a table at a local flea market and I noticed 2 new guys setting up a table with bottles. By the time I got there there was a crowd of other sellers looking at them. I quickly glanced and grabbed the best 2 bottles I could see for $5 each.
Im very new to this hobby, but feel I got a great deal and I will be looking for these guys again real soon.
My pics are too large to post so Ill try to describe them as easily as possible.
The 1st bottle is an X-Zalia medicine bottle, clear, applied top, with full paper labels intact (why i bought it)
the reverse has an embossed seal of cat of nine tails, made in boston.
Its not in my bottle book, but I see one listed on ebay for around $20 without a label.
I really like this bottle. X-Zalia was a cure all, snake oil, medicine that cured anything from herpes, blood poisoning to dandruf. My question is, how much more value does a bottle with a full paper label intact bring?
My seconond bottle is an amber colored beer bottle, id say early 1900's, it has a smiling sun embossed, and made by obermeyer and liebman (i think) in New York. This is also not in the bottle book. The only other one I can find on internet search is a museum piece! Im trying not to get too excited because Im sure it cant be that rare.
Pics to come...any help on posting them?
