Warners bottle help

[imukdiver]

I've wanted a warners bottle( kindey and liver cure) for quite awhile now. I'm gonna admit defeat and say I won't find one while diving. So I'm in the market to buy one. My question is what is a general run of the mill one worth? The is a local flea market with one for 20 bucks. Deal or no deal ?

 

[JOETHECROW]

Pete,...I suppose that's about average around here....Might be a touch on the low side, I've seen them go anywhere from 15.00$ on up to the 60's and even 80.00 for the regular amber "Rochester NY" variant....I think it depends on the usual factors (Condition and color) as well as if the person selling it is a bottle person or not,...etc. Some people think all old bottles are automatically valuable. I'd say if you really want one and it's a nice example,...20 is a reasonable price. There are many variations of that bottle that affect price as well. Joe

 

[imukdiver]

Thanks you very much JOE !! Yeah I'm not looking for anything odd or weird. I just need a common one in decent shape. It's been on my wish list for awhile and well buying one is easier than finding one on a dive. LOL [sm=lol.gif] Thanks again

 

[JOETHECROW]

Yeah,...I can totally relate to that.....Years ago there was a local town dump up in our woods that was where I first discovered antique bottles as a teenager in the 70's....At that time in my life I didn't know any other diggers or collectors,...etc, I just knew I really liked these cool old glass treasures! This dump had been dug from the late 50's, thru the early 60's but still was producing some pretty cool bottles back then,...Over the years it petered out,...I would always walk the creek up thru the woods to this dump, and one day when I had a little time, I rerouted the creek thru the dump with a small rock dam and a sheet of old tin... Then over the years I would walk the creek up to it with renewed interest everytime it rained....About 10 years ago this area suffered a great flood. Persistant logging had taken it's toll and increased our runoff,...after the initial crises I was visiting my brother near the flood area,...Of course I started thinking BOTTLES! Now even w/ my dam, the best thing ma nature ever dug for me was a beat citrate of magnesia with lightning stopper. I cajoled my twin brother into walking up to the dump with me,....He's not a bottle collector. As we walked up the valley, there were fresh shards everywhere...Suddenly, I spotted the unmistakable top of a Warner's Safe Cure,....sticking vertically out of the embankment!...My brother jumped ahead of me and said (teasingly, I thought) "Is this what you've been looking for?" I have never till that point dug or found a Warner's whole,...It was a very nice example,..light amber and in perfect shape. ...........He kept it,...Still has it,....Oh, well,....still a bottle story involving the common but elusive Warners.[] Joe

 

[dave3950]

Hi,
Sorry I didn't know you were looking for a Warners. I sold one at the Elkton Show last weekend for $10.00.

Dave

 

[imukdiver]

LOL, now thats funny !!! Hey thats what family is for right ?

 

[JOETHECROW]

ORIGINAL: imukdiver

LOL, now thats funny !!! Hey thats what family is for right ?

Yeah,....[]" With friends like that ".....Were that situation reversed,....I'd have given him the bottle,....but in all fairness, after alot of razzing from my bottle digging friends, he gave me a different Warner's from our local antique mall for Christmas a couple years later. ) I think he was under the impression that the original bottle was ultra valuable, due to my reaction to it.....[&:] Joe

 

[buzzkutt033]

your post motivated me to dig thru the box in the basement and find this warners bottle.

here's the before

 

[buzzkutt033]

here it is after a couple days in the tumbler.

kinda nice with the older top and the nice light color.

picture could be better...............

 

[bostaurus]

I have been wanting one for years too. Just bought one at Elkton for $15. Very happy with it.