1ST RARE BOTTLEEEEE!!!

[bigghouse]

SORRY I ASK A LOT OF QUESTIONS, BUT WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST RARE BOTTLE??? WAS IT OLD??? WHAT WAS IN IT?????? DO U STILL HAVE IT?????????????

HERES MINE, I POSTED THIS SOMANY TIMES THAT I BET U GUYS HAVE THE WORDS MEMORIZED BY KNOW, SO I WONT SAY THEM,

ELI JEPSON, PASTERIZED, SOMETHING ELSE I CANT REMEMBER, I GOTTA GET READY FOR SCHOOL, SO THANK YOU!!!!!!

ANNA

 

[bearswede]

Hi, Anna...

I guess mine would have to be: "Bogle's Hyperion Fluid For The Hair"... I found one in my digging days, way back in the early '70's... Altho it was cloudy from being buried, it had an open pontil scar and was nice and crude... I used to have a sign up in front of my house: Bottles For Sale... And people would stop by to look... I traded my Bogle's for a pristine A Van Hoboken sealed gin...

Since then, recently I have owned two more examples... One was broken in a car accident, shortly after I had gotten it back from being tumbled... Here's the one I currently own:



Ron

 

[buzzkutt033]

this is a neat thread. i dug this one in the mid 1970's. it is supposedly one of only a few known. there are no known undamaged examples to my knowledge ( whatever that means at this point ). ok folks, looking forward to some neat posts. take care all.

Jim

 

[buzzkutt033]

sorry. for the sake of those of us with eyesight issues ( like myself ), the embossing reads.

Second Ward Pharmacy
J. W. Smith
Mauch Chunk PA

Mauch Chunk now known as Jim Thorpe

 

[GuntherHess]

Rare is a relative term...
This is the first bottle I found worth >$100.
Emerald Dr Sage's Catarrh

 

[glass man]

MY 1st rare bottle was a amber bottle embossed "INDIAN FIG SYRUP,QUITMAN ,GEORGIA". I WAS TAKEING IT AROUND A AN TIQUE MALL WHERE TOM HICKS WAS SET UP DEALING AND I SHOWED IT TO HIM, NOT KNOWING WHO HE WAS . HE OFFERED ME $50 FOR IT , I SAID NO. LATTER I WENT BACK TO HIM AND SAID I WOULD TAKE $100 FOR IT ,THINKING HE WOULD NO WAY BUY IT . HE DID NOT HESITATE AND GAVE ME $100! THAT WAS ALOT OF MONEY FOR ME IN THE 1970s! I THINK HE STILL HAS IT!

 

[dollarbill]

Heres what I would call my first Rare bottle you'll not see many of these's .There were only 500 of them made in the first place so I understand . I know of 7 of them mine being one of those.One gent had 5 that were handed down threw his family one was found on the ocean floor and mine which I found on the banks of the ohio river.Thanks for looken all and good luck diggen to ya all.
bill