CarltonHendricks
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Well, while I'm waiting for the magic bullet on the Noble Catcher...I thought I'd post some photos of sports bottles....I looked around my sports collection yesterday and counted about six I have....I'll start with this one which I no longer have....sold it on eBay a couple years ago...which I regret....plus didn't get much for it, can't recall the number...just that I was disappointed....
I got it at the 49er bottle show in Auburn Calif....Speaking of...that show is one of the most interesting I attend...and not necessarily for the wares...I've been collecting about 25 years....and I regularly attend antiques shows of every kind...paper and book shows, toy shows, poster fairs, gun shows, etc......from the junkiest fleas to the toniest antique shows...you find stuff by turning over every rock....kinda like you guys except you turn over clumps of clay LOL
Anyways...Every antiques show has it's own personality and feel....that show is one is the most low key friendliest...not a sport coat and tie in the place...more like down parkas, wranglers with a tin of Scoll in the back pocket, and ball caps that say ducks unlimited...There seems to be a lot of camaraderie. I go looking for anything antique sports related...advertising signs, tins, etc...you never know....It's about a two hour drive for me....the only thing I don't like about it is it only comes once a year around early December...There's steak dinner at the end of the day by a local service club....I actually didn't make it to last years, had to work..but I always try to make that show....it's just a real fun day...I always come on set up day....
The last one I went to had a very interesting ending....I had bought the L.A.W. bottle below from a dealer from I think it was San Bernadino...or somewhere down southern Calif...I think I gave $50.00...For those unfamiliar L.A.W. stands for League of American Wheelman...which in the late 19th - early 20th century was the leading bicycle club in the United States....It's a syrup bottle that would have been used in a soda fountain....Anyway....I got my steak dinner at the end of the day and happened to sit next to the dealer who sold me my bottle....That was great as it gave me a chance to talk to him about bottle collecting....as I could tell he was a veteran bottle collector...sure enough he was full of great info....I'm asking him how he got into it all....and we're talking....and I'm hanging onto every work listening and learning....and there was this guy that came up to him and was standing there waiting for our conversation to end so he could talk to him....So i motion to him to go ahead and he hands the dealer a little cobalt blue bottle about maybe 2 1/2 inches tall....Here it is he said....and the guy I'd been talking to looks it over for a couple seconds and pulls a wad of $100.00 bill out of his front pocket and peels off five...and says thanks...and that was it the seller guy left...Now he really had my attention...Can I see that I asked...sure he said and handed it over to me....I can't recall exactly what he said it was but I think it was American Hospital....He said he had a collection of them and if I ever saw any let him know.....So now I'm seeing these guys are serious....So we talk and finally I asked...what's the most expensive bottle you have?....he thinks and he goes....I have one I've turned down $10,000.00 for....If I recall correctly....I know it was at least that much....and he told me the story how he got it...and that he felt it could be worth a lot more, like double that....and that that there were collectors in places like New York City that will pay huge money for the right bottle...
Then another guy at the table joined the conversation and I asked him how long and how he started...said he started in the 1960's while working for P.G. & E., the N. Calif power utility giant....Said he worked around Vallejo Calif and found bottles while digging up streets....
Total novice that I am...I liked my L.A.W. way better than that cobalt American Hospital...I should have found that guy in New York and sold him my L.A.W....LOL...but seriously, that was a great dinner...I really enjoyed talking to those guys....So anyways...now that I've talked you all into a slumber....Back to my L.A.W....I've had the worst time posting photos on this site....I'm used to Net54Baseball.com where I have no problem....and so for the time being I can only put up one per post...so see the label shot below and then I'm putting a link to slide show with multiple vantages
http://s213.photobucket.com/albums/cc120/CarltonHendricks/?action=view¤t=dec4c6f3.pbw
I got it at the 49er bottle show in Auburn Calif....Speaking of...that show is one of the most interesting I attend...and not necessarily for the wares...I've been collecting about 25 years....and I regularly attend antiques shows of every kind...paper and book shows, toy shows, poster fairs, gun shows, etc......from the junkiest fleas to the toniest antique shows...you find stuff by turning over every rock....kinda like you guys except you turn over clumps of clay LOL
Anyways...Every antiques show has it's own personality and feel....that show is one is the most low key friendliest...not a sport coat and tie in the place...more like down parkas, wranglers with a tin of Scoll in the back pocket, and ball caps that say ducks unlimited...There seems to be a lot of camaraderie. I go looking for anything antique sports related...advertising signs, tins, etc...you never know....It's about a two hour drive for me....the only thing I don't like about it is it only comes once a year around early December...There's steak dinner at the end of the day by a local service club....I actually didn't make it to last years, had to work..but I always try to make that show....it's just a real fun day...I always come on set up day....
The last one I went to had a very interesting ending....I had bought the L.A.W. bottle below from a dealer from I think it was San Bernadino...or somewhere down southern Calif...I think I gave $50.00...For those unfamiliar L.A.W. stands for League of American Wheelman...which in the late 19th - early 20th century was the leading bicycle club in the United States....It's a syrup bottle that would have been used in a soda fountain....Anyway....I got my steak dinner at the end of the day and happened to sit next to the dealer who sold me my bottle....That was great as it gave me a chance to talk to him about bottle collecting....as I could tell he was a veteran bottle collector...sure enough he was full of great info....I'm asking him how he got into it all....and we're talking....and I'm hanging onto every work listening and learning....and there was this guy that came up to him and was standing there waiting for our conversation to end so he could talk to him....So i motion to him to go ahead and he hands the dealer a little cobalt blue bottle about maybe 2 1/2 inches tall....Here it is he said....and the guy I'd been talking to looks it over for a couple seconds and pulls a wad of $100.00 bill out of his front pocket and peels off five...and says thanks...and that was it the seller guy left...Now he really had my attention...Can I see that I asked...sure he said and handed it over to me....I can't recall exactly what he said it was but I think it was American Hospital....He said he had a collection of them and if I ever saw any let him know.....So now I'm seeing these guys are serious....So we talk and finally I asked...what's the most expensive bottle you have?....he thinks and he goes....I have one I've turned down $10,000.00 for....If I recall correctly....I know it was at least that much....and he told me the story how he got it...and that he felt it could be worth a lot more, like double that....and that that there were collectors in places like New York City that will pay huge money for the right bottle...
Then another guy at the table joined the conversation and I asked him how long and how he started...said he started in the 1960's while working for P.G. & E., the N. Calif power utility giant....Said he worked around Vallejo Calif and found bottles while digging up streets....
Total novice that I am...I liked my L.A.W. way better than that cobalt American Hospital...I should have found that guy in New York and sold him my L.A.W....LOL...but seriously, that was a great dinner...I really enjoyed talking to those guys....So anyways...now that I've talked you all into a slumber....Back to my L.A.W....I've had the worst time posting photos on this site....I'm used to Net54Baseball.com where I have no problem....and so for the time being I can only put up one per post...so see the label shot below and then I'm putting a link to slide show with multiple vantages
http://s213.photobucket.com/albums/cc120/CarltonHendricks/?action=view¤t=dec4c6f3.pbw