oz-riley
Well-Known Member
Hi All,
I thought I would tell you about an experience I had last week.
I advertise in a local newspaper every now and again for old and antique bottle, in the hope of adding some new bottles to my collection.
I never get many calls but I have found some good bottles in the past, anyway I received a call and the lady told me she had seen my advert and had a few bottles.
The bottles were:
A Kruze's Milk of Magnesia, very common worth $1.00au if you can get that.
A Cobalt Blue Castor Oil, worth $12.00au.
And a Schweppes Torpedo, with the Oxford St London address, worth $100.00au.
I was interested in the Torpedo as they are a nice bottle, I was about to make a time to go and have a look at the condition when the lady told me that unless I was willing to pay $150,000.00au for the bottle not to bother coming to see her.
I enquired as to why she felt this bottle was worth so much money and was promptly told that she had seen a picture on the front page of the newspaper of a man holding a torpedo bottle about four years ago and this is the value the paper had on it.
I was not game to ask what she wanted for the other two bottles for fear of laughing out loud.
I politely told her that it was a little out of my league and said she should try the Melbourne Museum.
I spent the next 10 minutes lying on the floor laughing.
Chris
I thought I would tell you about an experience I had last week.
I advertise in a local newspaper every now and again for old and antique bottle, in the hope of adding some new bottles to my collection.
I never get many calls but I have found some good bottles in the past, anyway I received a call and the lady told me she had seen my advert and had a few bottles.
The bottles were:
A Kruze's Milk of Magnesia, very common worth $1.00au if you can get that.
A Cobalt Blue Castor Oil, worth $12.00au.
And a Schweppes Torpedo, with the Oxford St London address, worth $100.00au.
I was interested in the Torpedo as they are a nice bottle, I was about to make a time to go and have a look at the condition when the lady told me that unless I was willing to pay $150,000.00au for the bottle not to bother coming to see her.
I enquired as to why she felt this bottle was worth so much money and was promptly told that she had seen a picture on the front page of the newspaper of a man holding a torpedo bottle about four years ago and this is the value the paper had on it.
I was not game to ask what she wanted for the other two bottles for fear of laughing out loud.
I politely told her that it was a little out of my league and said she should try the Melbourne Museum.
I spent the next 10 minutes lying on the floor laughing.
Chris