old chinese medicine bottles

[tattooedmomma]

do they have anyvalue? they are small like vials. Does anyone collect them?? post pics of you do!

 

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[traderoftreasures]

do you have pictures ?

 

[tattooedmomma]

sure I will post them later!

 

[Likely Guy]

I've seen a few for sale in antique stores, usually in the $12 to $20 range ($CDN).

The restoration crew that I work with have also found a few in recent days that will add to the collection at our local museum.

I'm glad that you used the term 'medicine' bottle and not the often mistaken 'opium' bottle.

 

[tattooedmomma]

I JUST POSTED THEM AS A LOT ON EBAY. HOPE I DID THE RIGHT THING.. HERE IS THE PIC..

 

[Likely Guy]

The one with the original box & label should be worth considerably more.

 

[tattooedmomma]

LIKE HOW MUCH? THERE ISN'T ANY ON EBAY EXCEPT MINE. SHOULD I HAVE A RESERVE?

 

[Likely Guy]

Just a WAG, but I'd say double the price of that one. I haven't had any experience with ebay, sorry.

 

[tattooedmomma]

double the price of which one? I started the bidding at 9.99

 

[pganjon]

Hello! I don't know what they are worth, but my experience with e-bay is to base your starting fee on the lowest that you would like to get for all of them. I don't know if you acquired them for free or bought them, so that is something you have to decide. You can put a reserve on them and e-bay will usually base your insertion fee on that price. But if your item reaches the reserve price, e-bay will not charge you for the reserve fee and just base your insertion fee on your starting price. Also when you research an item on e-bay, don't forget to check the completed items box at the left of the screen and click search. That will show you if any items like yours sold in the last month and what prices they sold for! Red prices didn't sell and green ones did! 9.99 seams like a good starting bid for those neat looking bottles though

 

[silvercop]

first ones i have ever seen

 

[tattooedmomma]

really? wowo!

 

[allen]

i hope you get a nice amount for those bottles !

 

[tattooedmomma]

They sold for 21.00

 

[Mr Ripley]

I think that you did well at that.

Congrats,

Mr R

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

The one in the box looks like modern Ginseng.