Wheelah23
Well-Known Member
I've been quite slack with posting my recent acquisitions, in fact I don't remember posting anything eBay wise in the past several months. Anyway... I'm too lazy to bring you up to speed now. [8D]
Here's a recent buy that I particularly love. It came in the mail today, and boy, was I surprised when I opened the box! I was enamored as soon as I saw it in the glass (flesh?). It looks ten times better than I imagined from the eBay picture. I've gotta say, it's my favorite local crown yet. Something about it just speaks to me. I don't think tooled crowns get as much credit as they should, honestly. This is my first (whole) local with that upward script embossing style. I figure the date is 1910-15, since it has the contents embossed? It's got a cool orange peel effect that's very similar to another local crown I have. I'll post that later. Couldn't find anything about A. Sossin from Orange NJ online, probably not a huge bottler.
A few days previous, I came home from school to find a box sitting on my doorstep. I knew from the outside what it must've been... [
] Big thanks to slag pile digger, who gave me the bottles, and epackage for delivering the box to my house! I didn't have these Edison bottles yet, common as they are. Any time you don't have to pay for a common bottle, it's a good day... [] The blue one is BIM and almost mint, except for a chip on the lip. Still looks nice though.
Now the question becomes, who will the next recipient of this box be? Eeny, meeny, miney, mo... []
Here's a recent buy that I particularly love. It came in the mail today, and boy, was I surprised when I opened the box! I was enamored as soon as I saw it in the glass (flesh?). It looks ten times better than I imagined from the eBay picture. I've gotta say, it's my favorite local crown yet. Something about it just speaks to me. I don't think tooled crowns get as much credit as they should, honestly. This is my first (whole) local with that upward script embossing style. I figure the date is 1910-15, since it has the contents embossed? It's got a cool orange peel effect that's very similar to another local crown I have. I'll post that later. Couldn't find anything about A. Sossin from Orange NJ online, probably not a huge bottler.
A few days previous, I came home from school to find a box sitting on my doorstep. I knew from the outside what it must've been... [
] Big thanks to slag pile digger, who gave me the bottles, and epackage for delivering the box to my house! I didn't have these Edison bottles yet, common as they are. Any time you don't have to pay for a common bottle, it's a good day... [] The blue one is BIM and almost mint, except for a chip on the lip. Still looks nice though.Now the question becomes, who will the next recipient of this box be? Eeny, meeny, miney, mo... [
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