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

[Bluegrass]

$7000 or thereabouts will be fine (snicker). Just let me know if you're using Paypal so that I can add the seller's fee to your total! Check out Digger's recent blog on this bottle and the American Bottle Auction that featured it.

 

[earlyglass]

Yeah, this thread is too much fun! Some great glass folks!!

Here are a few blacking and snuff bottles...

Mike

 

[earlyglass]

and a few more...

Mike

 

[beendiggin]

Hey Dollarbill, what's the embossing on those pontiled cylinders?

Earlyglass, love the Stoddards!!

 

[texasdigger]

I love the blacking bottles!! That is one nice group!! I have been looking for an unembossed one for a fair price, but those take the cake. Very very nice!

 

[glass man]

EARLY GLASS,THOSE BLACKING,SNUFF,BOTTLES....ARE REALLY UNBELIEVIBLE. DANG! BILL ALONG WITH A EARLIER QUESTION ASKED OF YOU BOUT THEM CYLINDERS,WHAT IS THAT BLUE/GREEN LOOKING BOTTLE IN FRONT OF THE JUG?

 

[Road Dog]

Awesome early glass everyone. I'm saving all these pics for future drooling![]

 

[dollarbill]

Hey Bluegrass
Yes thats one sweet bottle there but way over my head.I'd have to dig one thats the only way I'd come up with one of those same for the Nash and Sutton too .Hey that one didn't come out of my back yard did it he he.
Hey beendiggen .There puff except for an op Miss Winslow's and a Hovers cement .This is one of the meds that netted me two nice bottles a op Diamond cement and an op Butler house ink .This a great post all keep um coming .
bill

 

[Bluegrass]

If you mean good old Maysville, yes indeedy. I think the $7000 figure must have been a freak of some sort or another, but it was a special moment to dig one nonetheless. That must be one of the best small towns for digging in the entire country. I don't think any other town of its size could produce such an array of local stoneware or fantastic glass. Alas, the best days are long gone.
Is that Cumberland River American oil something you actually dug? That's a special find.

Bluegrass

 

[dollarbill]

Hey Bluegrass
Yep I dug it The group shot all came from a smoke house and privy right beside each other that I dug all by myself right down town .I belive there to be plenty of diggen left just gotta find um . I belive the Green Butler ink from Cinn. would be the top dollar bottle but its staying with me.That and the stoneware .7000.00 thats a chunk of change my friend . A local collector bought the American oil and still has it as far as I know he also has several bluelicks bottles .I want one or two of them to and not the lable one as I would take one but I want a upper and lower one ya know . Not asking for much uh an I nelson barrel would'nt hurt my feelings ether . Oh if ya check out my post my new residents you will see I live right behind the old courthouse and county clerks office .
bill