Colored Blacking Bottles

[Bixby Bill]

I recently picked up these 2 shoe polish bottles. one`s a fairly common Gilt Edge Dressing in a very uncommon dark apple green, and the other is a Saratoga Dressing, Restorff & Bettman, New York in a dark yellow olive color. Now my primary focus is Bixbys, but I couldn`t resist these two, I`ve never seen these bottles in these colors before.I`m wondering how many other colors these two might be found in? It`s getting tough for me to find Bixbys in colors I don`t have, so maybe it`s time to branch out a little! I`d love to see other colors for these bottles so I can see what to look for.

 

[RED Matthews]

Bixby Bill: I like your Bixby bottles. The Saratoga Blacking is interesting. I have a clear glass bottle for the Gilt Edge Dressing with the wooden stopper and dobber. I also have the lithographed cover for the bottle. Yours looks like it might be older than mine. I couldn't tell for sure but is the cover's CT (Continuous Thread) on the heal above the base edge. It doesn't look like it does. My cover - covers the whole bottle with only that heal base edge showing when the cover is on.
I also like to get the E.A.Waters bottles, Troy N.Y.
Nice bottles. RED Matthews

 

[Bixby Bill]

Hi Red, mine has the threads on the sides at the base also, they are segmented so they aren`t continuous all the way around. I`ve seen the clear and aqua ones, but I`ve never seen one with the box on it. I always wondered if there were any left around with the cover that screwed down onto the bottle. It`s a shame to keep such an attractive bottle covered up, though!

 

[madpaddla]

Bill.....great pics. Really nice bottles. I was hoping you would get that stoneware bottle tonight. Better luck next time. Once again ...real nice ones Bill.

 

[Bixby Bill]

Thanks,Ben! I didn`t even know about that stoneware bottle until this evening when I got home and a friend had called me to tell me about it. It`s not often you see one with your name on it, B. A. Steele, right down to the right middle initial! Thankfully I already have one, but someone plugged a big hole in the base with silly putty, but as they say, it displays well! I`m starting to like nice colors now, it doesn`t have to be rare or even perfect condition, just a good color. I picked up a bunch of color at an auction this past weekend, I kept expecting to see you walk through the door, so since I was the only bottle nut there, I was nice enough to buy them so nobody else would be stuck with them.

 

[JOETHECROW]

ORIGINAL: Bixby Bill

I recently picked up these 2 shoe polish bottles. one`s a fairly common Gilt Edge Dressing in a very uncommon dark apple green, and the other is a Saratoga Dressing, Restorff & Bettman, New York in a dark yellow olive color. Now my primary focus is Bixbys, but I couldn`t resist these two, I`ve never seen these bottles in these colors before.I`m wondering how many other colors these two might be found in? It`s getting tough for me to find Bixbys in colors I don`t have, so maybe it`s time to branch out a little! I`d love to see other colors for these bottles so I can see what to look for.

Those are a pair of awesome colored bottles Bill! Joe