Post a pic of the best bottle you own or have ever owned

[LayerSlayer]

Great thread.

It is great to have a place to go shoot the bull with people that get it.

As most of you know, it is hard to explain our passion to most people.

It has been great seeing these bottles.

It is interesting to hear the stories as much as see the bottles.

I narrowed this thread down to money bottles just so everyone from all over could be on the same page but our hobby is more about the local if you guys are like me. I have my bottles with local embossing that wouldn't bring $20 on Ebay that I wouldn't take $500 for them, especially if I dug them. Hard to put a price on a great local bottle when you spent 2 or 3 weekends on dry digs before it showed itself. I figure you guys are the same.

 

[Jim]

I'm with you 100%. The local history is my main interest when I dig (plus, of course, scoring nice bottles whenever possible!). I have a very well-deserved reputation locally as someone who doesn't have the time of day for vulture antique dealers looking to make a killing from diggers. They just can't understand why I would want to keep everything and not sell it to them for a quick buck. If they want what I have, I say let them do what I do to get them. They never will, because they're all about easy money. Greedbay just sucks, and will never get another dime of my money in selling fees for anything.

I regularly give away my duplicate local bottles to friends, fellow collectors and my local historical society. That really chafes the "vultures" []. ~Jim

 

[phil44]

thanks guys, I never dreamed I'd be able to assemble a group like this. It just kind of happened I was a Hampton's magnet over the course of a few years!

That early cornucopia is a chest thumper as well all the others I've seen so far keep em coming people!!!

 

[RICKJJ59W]

I hear ya Jimmy.I may sell the Puce Eagle one day near retirement.Or if the wife happened to need a 21.000 dollar leg operation or something along those lines,but then again a peg leg would be much cheaper [8D]
All kidding aside, I'm with you, digging is not about making money,I have a job for that.

 

[passthebottle]

Here is a picture of the second open pontil bottle that I have found, the first being the day before in the same hillside dump. Though not the most valuable bottle ion my collection , it is one of my favorites. All it needed was just a rinse out with soapy water to bring it back to sparklymint condition.

 

[passthebottle]

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[TROG]

This is the best bottle I have.

An English Onion bottle dating from around 1720 that was found being used as a doorstop and full of sand.The seal is of a family crest which I have been unable to find any record of. The lip of this bottle has been removed and a Silver surround put on so the bottle could be used for a decanter.

 

[TROG]

This I consider is my best Pot Lid

 

[glass man]

TROGG,HOW OLD IS THE POT LID,DO YOU KNOW? JAMIE

 

[texasdigger]

This bottle is not as old as most in this thread, but it is just as rare as most of them. I dug this bottle in a little creek bank dump in north Texas. I have shown it to just about every real authority on Texas meds, and none of them have ever seen it. One of our awesome members here found an original add for this company, and was able to help me prove origin. I found three more of this companies patent meds broke in the same dump (all unknown). I am not sure what it is worth, but I have had some good offers.
side: A.C. Simmons Jr. Med Co Simmons side: Chill Cure tasteless front: ACS jr. monogram trade mark". From Sherman Texas

One day I will sell, but I am not sure when. Great bottles everyone!
This is an awesomw thread!

Brad