Old or not? Amber big lip bottle with sharp pontil. Thanks.

[hemihampton]

I think he meant how it is sheared and rolled outward, while the Tippecanoe top is applied. There's also the extremely rare blue "Dr. Henion's Sure Cure for Malaria" with the same top.

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He did say he has not seen a top anything like that & the tippecanoe is something like that although maybe not exact?

 

[sandchip]

Huh. This cobalt bottle is so rare I can't find anything about it on-line. Are you confident that this is not a fantasy bottle? I see the image is from a Norm Heckler auction catalog -- which one?

I'd have to look back, but I do know that one was in the Burton Spiller collection. There may be two examples out there.

 

[sandchip]

Huh. This cobalt bottle is so rare I can't find anything about it on-line. Are you confident that this is not a fantasy bottle? I see the image is from a Norm Heckler auction catalog -- which one?

Harry, that's going to be lot 226 in NCH auction number 180. I believe this one is a second example and not the one out of the Spiller collection. I couldn't put my hand on that catalog, but I believe his was mint.




The pictures loaded out of order, but the last is the page out of Agee's book. The display of Spiller's collection is out of the Encyclopedia of Collectibles.

Hope this helps. Hopefully, we won't get scolded for not staying on topic and starting a separate thread.