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  1. #1

    Nov 2007
    Colorado
    MXT
    23

    Flea Market find

    I found a box of bottles at the Flea Market this weekend. I paid ten dollars for the box. Did I get ripped off? Do I just use water to clean them?

    I numbered the bottles in the pic and will write about each one

    #1-- has 4in1 on one side and 3/4, 1/2, 1/4 on the other
    #2--says A.D. Simmons Denver, Colo with a Bird in the middle of the writing, has a metal wire thing stuck in the opening
    #3-- doesn't have anything on it
    #4-- says citrate of magnesia in a fancy symbol on the front
    #5--doesn't have anything on it
    #6--says Gordon's Dry Gin, London on one side and England on the other
    #7--says 6oz Farr's Gray Hair Restorer Boston Mass, 225 on the bottom
    #8--says PEE-CHEE on the bottom
    #9--says A 36 on the bottom
    #10--has a W T then U D C.O.10 then a 6 on the bottom
    #11--says 1oz Full Measure on the sides and 12 then a 556 in a diamond on the bottom
    #12--says Dr. Price's Delicious Flavoring Extracts on the front and what looks like a 8 on top of a diamond on the bottom
    #13--doesn't say anything
    #14--Is melted and I can't read whats on the bottom
    #15--says DR.S.Pitcher's on one side and Castoria on the other B.67. on the bottom

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  2. #2
    seger98

    Re: Flea Market find

    Nice bottles, I don't think ya got ripped off. I clean mine in water with a little bleach, let them soak for a few days & then take a bottle brush to them, comes out pretty clean!

  3. #3
    ca
    Likely, B.C.

    Aug 2008
    Quesnel Forks, Autumn Festival ca. 1895
    703

    Re: Flea Market find

    The Farr's Gray Hair bottle is worth about $10.
    Found a link for you: http://www.hairraisingstories.com/PurchaseB.html

    I'll keep poking around.

    "It's a quest. It's a quest for fun, I'm gonna have fun and you're gonna have fun, we're all gonna have so much #!@*^& fun we'll need plastic surgery to remove our %$#@ smiles!" - Clark Griswold, National Lampoon's 'Family Vacation'.

  4. #4
    ca
    Likely, B.C.

    Aug 2008
    Quesnel Forks, Autumn Festival ca. 1895
    703

    Re: Flea Market find

    Dr. Price's Delicious Flavoring Extracts on E-bay asking $6.95: http://cgi.ebay.com.my/Bottle-Dr-Pri...QQcmdZViewItem
    "It's a quest. It's a quest for fun, I'm gonna have fun and you're gonna have fun, we're all gonna have so much #!@*^& fun we'll need plastic surgery to remove our %$#@ smiles!" - Clark Griswold, National Lampoon's 'Family Vacation'.

  5. #5
    us
    Nov 2004
    Rhode Island
    1,178
    All Types Of Treasure Hunting

    Re: Flea Market find

    The Farr's, Price's and the Simmons pictorial Hutch bottle are all nice ones. The rest are fairly common, but I think you did pretty good for $10.00. Nice stuff!

  6. #6

    Nov 2007
    Colorado
    MXT
    23

    Re: Flea Market find

    Thanks for the info guys. I was a little hesitant about buying them but I'm glad I did. I'm going to start carefully cleaning them.

  7. #7
    Charter Member
    us
    Sep 2007
    San Diego County
    10,322
    Metal Detecting

    Re: Flea Market find

    Nice score. Love those old bottles
    Enjoying the "Good Life" in SoCal

 

 

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