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So I've been eyeballing this lil planter behind my customers house that was full of bottles, many of which I could see were corked top, others were just neat, but never dug through em. He had em in a greenhouse/storage area that one of the hurricanes probably wiped out, but everything was getting ruined. Last few months he's been cleaning things out, so yest, he's outside while I'm doing my thing, and I said "I've been admiring your bottle collection out back" to which he replied, "what bottle collection"
So after explaining where, without looking said, if they back there take em, one less thing I gotta worry about moving. I said yes sir let me get em out of your way. He said "I don't even remember where I picked em up, I could tell some were old, so I got em"

So I'll post the ones I've snapped quick photos of and cropped, these were just on top. I apologize I didn't have a chance to clean up any better, but will get around soon hopefully,! Also, if yall would, feel free to edumacate me on what kind of bottles he had, for example, some of these that the seam doesn't go all the way up, any nicknames, method of production, etc, if you don't mind and thank you in advance
 

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Guess I'll take this in segments, this next one, morbidly, caught my attention! Was it maybe an IV bottle?
 

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After that mortician, that lil coke bottle also struck me as odd?? It's tiny, maybe 3 or 4 Oz, well I say coke, looks like a beverage bottle

Here's a few more
 

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And got another certo bottle, guess this was hung upside down??

Also the snuff bottles, doesn't the number of dots on the bottom represent something?? Forgive my ignorance, guess I could've done some homework
 

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OK ok almost done with what I took pis of anyways
 

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I see it jumbled up the order I'D planned, I think that 1st photo is supposed to be behind the round base with my wife's name, minus an s, ironically on the bottom
 

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When the seam does not go all the way through the lip, it is either an applied lip or tooled lip. There is a thread that goes into the specifics of the two. In your case, the bottles whose seams don't go through the lip are tooled (tooled lips are newer most of the time).
I'll start doing some research to help id some of the bottles and reply when I've got something.
 

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So I've been eyeballing this lil planter behind my customers house that was full of bottles, many of which I could see were corked top, others were just neat, but never dug through em. He had em in a greenhouse/storage area that one of the hurricanes probably wiped out, but everything was getting ruined. Last few months he's been cleaning things out, so yest, he's outside while I'm doing my thing, and I said "I've been admiring your bottle collection out back" to which he replied, "what bottle collection"
So after explaining where, without looking said, if they back there take em, one less thing I gotta worry about moving. I said yes sir let me get em out of your way. He said "I don't even remember where I picked em up, I could tell some were old, so I got em"

So I'll post the ones I've snapped quick photos of and cropped, these were just on top. I apologize I didn't have a chance to clean up any better, but will get around soon hopefully,! Also, if yall would, feel free to edumacate me on what kind of bottles he had, for example, some of these that the seam doesn't go all the way up, any nicknames, method of production, etc, if you don't mind and thank you in advance
College Inn is a company that originated in Chicago in the 20s. They are still in business and sell broths. I assume that's what your bottle would have been. The other one is some sort of patent medicine. I tried to find the patent number, but no luck.
 
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Guess I'll take this in segments, this next one, morbidly, caught my attention! Was it maybe an IV bottle?
I would assume embalming fluid for the first one. The next looks like a Welch's grape juice bottle but not sure if it's Welch's, but same concept. The last couple look like medicine or liquor flasks.
 

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