Hello, about 10 years ago i inherited my grandparents house, a house they lived in for over 60 years. The house was full of antiques and just as much junk. Anyways in a pantry up on a shelf were a couple dozen old bottles. My grandparets didnt drink and didnt collect bottles either but these were just saved as my grandfather was something of a junk collector. i was in there today and decided to pull the bottles out and look them up and see if they were worth anything. I have found out that finding information is pretty difficult if you dont know where to look, so when i found this forum I was pleased to find some information. So here is where the help is needed. I would like to find out if any of these bottles are worth selling and also the best way to go about selling them. I have enough hobbies and im afraid if i start digging too deep then I will have another one.
Here is a few of the bottles I have and what I know about them:
1) Jack Daniels 1/2 gallon Gold Medal Old No. 7 (empty) no chips or scratches and about 90% of the South Carolina tax seal,, from what i can find it looks like this bottle was made in 1971
2) Garretts 4/5 pint American Wines,, completley embosed (sp?) empty and missing the screw on lid
3) Garretts 4/5ths quart Virginia Dare American Red Wine, empty, paper label on the front and embosed on the back
4) Crown malmsey Fine Madeira Wine,, empty, cork top, vintage 1920 green in color
5) Old Mr Boston full quart embosed and also a metal label on the front, screw on cap,
6) Old Crow 86 proof kentucky straight bourbon whiskey,, 80% full, paper labels in good condition,, South Carolina tax seal 34 cents
7) Old Kentucky Tavern straight burbon whiskey, "something liquid in the bottom lol " paper label on front is good, back is damaged, SC tax seal 17 cents half pint
8) small bottled embosed with McCormick & Company Extracts Spices & Ect. Balto, MD.
probaly another 6-10 large bottles (gallon sizes) some brown in color
10 or so medicine and other type bottles including
small bottle of smelling salts (full bottle) paper label from J H B ryant funeral home st george sc
medium sized bottle,, paper label, SPT of Turpentine (50% full of a yellow liquid) Kramers Pharmacy Summerville Sc
1 pint bottle of McKessons Mineral Oil heavy,, (full bottle)
glass pill bottle of quinine sulfate capsules,, aproximatly 1/4 of pills still in the bottle
dark colered glass bottle 1 pint, elixir lactated pepsin lilly, eli lilly and company
like i said there are other bottles from large to small, some that have no labels or markings but are obviously very old and some that i havent even pulled down yet
Also have close to 1000 Mason jars and other brand named mason type and freezer jars raniging from really old to probably the 70s
If anyone has any ideas on these bottles and if any have any value it would be greatly appreciated.
Oh almost forgot there were some cans of red devil lye un opened as well as a soap and a few miscelanous items...
Thanks in advance for your help
Here is a few of the bottles I have and what I know about them:
1) Jack Daniels 1/2 gallon Gold Medal Old No. 7 (empty) no chips or scratches and about 90% of the South Carolina tax seal,, from what i can find it looks like this bottle was made in 1971
2) Garretts 4/5 pint American Wines,, completley embosed (sp?) empty and missing the screw on lid
3) Garretts 4/5ths quart Virginia Dare American Red Wine, empty, paper label on the front and embosed on the back
4) Crown malmsey Fine Madeira Wine,, empty, cork top, vintage 1920 green in color
5) Old Mr Boston full quart embosed and also a metal label on the front, screw on cap,
6) Old Crow 86 proof kentucky straight bourbon whiskey,, 80% full, paper labels in good condition,, South Carolina tax seal 34 cents
7) Old Kentucky Tavern straight burbon whiskey, "something liquid in the bottom lol " paper label on front is good, back is damaged, SC tax seal 17 cents half pint
8) small bottled embosed with McCormick & Company Extracts Spices & Ect. Balto, MD.
probaly another 6-10 large bottles (gallon sizes) some brown in color
10 or so medicine and other type bottles including
small bottle of smelling salts (full bottle) paper label from J H B ryant funeral home st george sc
medium sized bottle,, paper label, SPT of Turpentine (50% full of a yellow liquid) Kramers Pharmacy Summerville Sc
1 pint bottle of McKessons Mineral Oil heavy,, (full bottle)
glass pill bottle of quinine sulfate capsules,, aproximatly 1/4 of pills still in the bottle
dark colered glass bottle 1 pint, elixir lactated pepsin lilly, eli lilly and company
like i said there are other bottles from large to small, some that have no labels or markings but are obviously very old and some that i havent even pulled down yet
Also have close to 1000 Mason jars and other brand named mason type and freezer jars raniging from really old to probably the 70s
If anyone has any ideas on these bottles and if any have any value it would be greatly appreciated.
Oh almost forgot there were some cans of red devil lye un opened as well as a soap and a few miscelanous items...
Thanks in advance for your help
