Need bottles; will travel...

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Hey Joe ~ would love to have heard you singing that ! [][]
Why on earth would you have sung it, though ? It was a British marching song from the Anglo-Boer War (and part of it was in Afrikaans !) Not exactly Metallica or Pink Floyd [] !!

 

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@ Renee ~ you have no idea of what our birds drink (& eat!)[] Have often been tempted to soak a bit of the bread our Weavers eat in some brandy & watch the chaos ![:-] (But my wife would kill me !)

Bird's was, of course, a big firm in England (& still is), making custard amongst other things.

 

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Dale what does a castor oil like that sell for down your way?

 

[SAbottles]

Jim, around Rands 100 to 120 ~ on straight conversion about $12 to $15. Should be more, but I don't have a large "sophisticated" clientele here ! They just buy it "because it looks pretty" !

 

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Thanks, I wish I was in the area I would take it for that price....good luck with them all...[]

 

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Thanks Jim. Actually had a pretty good market today and things from that collection are selling well ~ in fact I am rationing out the blue glass very carefully !
"Retro-weddings" are still my biggest sales - - people (the brides anyway !) want a small group of nice aqua bottles on each table, with flowers in them. It breaks my purist heart - but it brings in the $$$ !

 

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Great to hear it...

 

[RICKJJ59W]

ORIGINAL: SAbottles

Here are a few of the more welcome individual bottles: a Clarke's "World Famed Blood Mixture"

an Otto Landsberg snuff bottle:

another snuff bottle - from Herman Canard:

I love these 3 the snuff is bad ass !

 

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They are nice, Rick; and these are quite early ones with glass stopper & cork binding. the later ones had screw tops. And the snuff is pretty strong. I have had bottles with small amounts of snuff still in ; tried some and boy !! Do you only sneeze !! Sure clears the old sinuses out ![:'(]

 

[bostaurus]

ORIGINAL: SAbottles

Thanks Jim. Actually had a pretty good market today and things from that collection are selling well ~ in fact I am rationing out the blue glass very carefully !
"Retro-weddings" are still my biggest sales - - people (the brides anyway !) want a small group of nice aqua bottles on each table, with flowers in them. It breaks my purist heart - but it brings in the $$$ !

I wonder what they do with the bottles after the wedding? Maybe you could start a business 'renting' bottles for weddings.