New- cobalt Riddle

[opmustard]

I don't like a cloudy bottle and am usually one to advocate to tumble those. I wouldn't clean this one. It looks great to me.

Jim G

I am the type of collector that likes my bottles nice and clean. However, this one I've decided not to tumble.
opmusatrd

 

[opmustard]

Gorgeous bottle. What I would give to dig one.

This is probably one of the cleanest sodas that has ever come out of the ground for me.
opmustard

 

[Palani]

Nice

 

[Jimmy Langford]

Probably a $150- $200 bottle. Stunningly beautiful. Don’t tumble it. Remember: A tumbled bottle can never be a mint bottle. This bottle is very close to mint.

 

[J.R. Collector]

Probably a $150- $200 bottle. Stunningly beautiful. Don’t tumble it. Remember: A tumbled bottle can never be a mint bottle. This bottle is very close to mint.

I disagree. Atleast double that.

 

[Jimmy Langford]

I disagree. Atleast double that.

Yeah you're probably right !

 

[opmustard]

I disagree. Atleast double that.

Have been offered $450.00 awhile ago from a fellow pontiled soda friend/collector. I don't' think that most Riddles are very rare, but I have three more different colored pontiled ones. So this cobalt fit in nicely with the other Riddles. Do have a very light yellow Riddle that was dug from the same privy, but its condition isn't that good. It would clean up nicely but it has a minor crack in the lip.
I can't remember if Riddles were ever that hard to find. Recently, I was really bored, so I looked at Ebay and they had a green pontiled dug Riddle up for auction. It looked like it would clean up nicely. Think it sold around $60.00 or less.
Thanks for the compliments about my bottle.
opmustard

 

[ROBBYBOBBY64]

Like you green Riddles bottles, I have seen a few. Cobalt ones not so often. I love the fancy R.
ROBBYBOBBY64.

 

[opmustard]

Like you green Riddles bottles, I have seen a few. Cobalt ones not so often. I love the fancy R.
ROBBYBOBBY64.

O.K. its not just my lousy memory about the cobalt Riddles. I got very lucky on my dug cobalt Riddle. All the rest of them weren't , well they need/ed some sort of work to make them look good. I forgot that I that came also have a very light amber Riddle that came from the same privy. Most of the pontiled sodas were Riddles, named that privy the Riddle privy.
Love the fancy "R" as well.
I don't look at Ebay that much anymore and I don't buy from them (that much.) If I know the seller, I'll go for the bottle. There some good trustworthy sellers on Ebay. However, this seller doesn't accept returns is a show stopper and the only real description are the posted photos, forget it.
opmustard

 

[willong]

Beautiful bottle! I certainly would not tumble if it were mine. Looks plenty nice as is. Moreover, I'd be concerned that tumbling would remove much of the evidence of it having been attached to an iron pontil when manufactured.