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

[Robo110]

Here's my 'baby', have had it for years but just found out INFO on it last night on this awesome site!
Thanks ALL !

 

[Robo110]

Here's my 'baby', have had it for years but just found out INFO on it last night on this awesome site!
Thanks ALL

 

[probe zilla]

[]wow, what great pictures of awesome bottles, it seems like everyone eventually finds that one of a kind bottle that you dream about , here is mine
a pontiled townsends, it has a N1 after the NY on the albany side

 

[blobbottlebob]

Wow everybody. Really really nice stuff. The best bottle that I ever sold money-wise was not even a bottle. It was an oyster tin. My fellow divers laughed when they saw me put it in my float to keep it. I'm glad I did. It fetched about $450.

 

[dollarbill]

Hey Jim
Thanks for the reply . Yea that's it . The top of my collection .Was shaken like a leaf when it came out .I was and still am quite new to the hobby but I knew I had something good when I saw the color .Here's my Butler collection so far all op except the far right and its key mold .Gota get me a few of those Harrisons too one day . Give's me something to dream about and dig for .
bill

 

[appliedlips]

ORIGINAL: justanolddigger

This is by far the best bottle I ever dug. Came out of the ground in perfect dead mint condition. We had to auction it off amongst ourselves and I was just too poor to be top bidder, it went for around $7000 in 1990, and all I got was the picture. It really broke my heart when Jeff Noordsy listed it in his top twenty bottles of all time in a bottle magaizine article. The house was bought by a retired Colonel from the war of 1812, he settled there in the 1830's, and we hit that period pit. The back yard was over an acre of landscaped gardens and we were allowed to check in a small 15'x20' spot and got very lucky. The pit was just jam packed full of glass, the second best bottle out was a cobalt umbrella. There was a ton of broken Drakes in every color under the rainbow, we filled over 2 five gallon pails of the best shards

I don't know that I have ever seen a better bottle that has come out of the ground,congratulations.

 

[NYCFlasks]

I have 3 favorites, one from each of my collections, and one overall really cool peice.
First is a stoneware jug with "Mother Loves You" on it. Oh, it was dug, but not by me. Of all my bottles and pottery, this is my favorite one.
For my local bottle collection, it would have to be my green Citrate of Magnesia from our local pharmacy, which is still in operation today.
I love my flasks, and I picked one in a nice citron color from Brooklyn NY, and a hotel example from NYC which was obtained from a wall, never in the ground.

 

[southern Maine diver]

One of my favorites has been this Swaim's Panacea... it has a great big glob of glass on the pontiled bottom... []

 

[southern Maine diver]

This is what it looked like when I found it...[]

Wayne

 

[sandchip]

Dang good pontil for one of those.