Happy fourth of July and bottles

[RelicDude]

Happy Independence Day everyone. I started my fourth with a dig down at the river bank. I had dreams of finding a double eagle historical flask but oh well. Wishful thinking. But I didn't leave empty handed. I found a conical ink first one for the year. But the next find made my day a moxie nerve food bottle. This thing has a wonky applied donut looking top and the bottle has an awesome hammered whittle . Anyone know the age of this one? it looks to be early. Thanks for looking and I hope every one is having a safe fun holiday weekend._ Justin

 

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[Bass]

Your bottle is indeed early. It was first introduced in 1876 as Moxie Nerve Food. Moxie was first sold as a carbonated drink in 1884. Interesting, I've looked at several websites and I've seen a few pictures of bottles like yours except there is no "patented" on some of them. And one website says it wasn't patented until 1885. With that said, your bottle is post 1885. Oh, very nice find by the way!

 

[Goldenplug]

Nice bottles!

 

[john glassman]

Nice moxie bottle!

 

[RelicDude]

Your bottle is indeed early. It was first introduced in 1876 as Moxie Nerve Food. Moxie was first sold as a carbonated drink in 1884. Interesting, I've looked at several websites and I've seen a few pictures of bottles like yours except there is no "patented" on some of them. And one website says it wasn't patented until 1885. With that said, your bottle is post 1885. Oh, very nice find by the way!

Thank you much bass as always . It's an odd one and I'm having a hard time finding g a similar one.

 

[Bass]

I saw some on eBay like yours ( i believe) yesterday. Priced from 35.00-99.00. And one with a "donut" top priced at 135.00

 

[bullgill]

lol call it independence day!

Nice bottles, wish I had those in my back yard. You must be far east coast.

Your Moxie bottle has rich color to it. Is that a crack in neck? If so that is unfortunate because other than that it looks very nice.

That deep rich color seems to do well against sickness, it is about the same color as most insulators and I have yet to see a sick insulator. The lighter more transparent bottles of the same color seem more susceptible to sickness.

 

[RelicDude]

lol call it independence day!

Nice bottles, wish I had those in my back yard. You must be far east coast.

Your Moxie bottle has rich color to it. Is that a crack in neck? If so that is unfortunate because other than that it looks very nice.

That deep rich color seems to do well against sickness, it is about the same color as most insulators and I have yet to see a sick insulator. The lighter more transparent bottles of the same color seem more susceptible to sickness.

Thank you I live in Connecticut. The bottle actually has quite a bit of sickness I took the pictures after I cleaned them so they were still wet. I'm thinking about having this one tumbled.

 

[PikesPeakCharlie]

Nice finds ! We have an amber Moxie from Colorado,,,,, disappointingly I have never dug one ,,,,,,,,,,,,, YET !