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[treasurekidd]

Sandchip, it looks like your bottle dates to between 1903 and 1927 according to the mention on this page, about half way down the page...

https://ohiobottleclub.org/?p=2288

 

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[undertaker]

Pick these two up today at a bottle show / sale in Ny. Now that I'm older buying seems to be a easier option and more productive than digging. The Dr. Boyce Bitters is a Vermont bottle that I didn't have and the Quart Double Eagle had great whittle and color although it is a common flask.

 

[No gold in NY]

Real nice bottles. I had flier about that show, but lost it.

 

[Bass]

Great stuff, guys!



You are so right, RustyScrew. A good proprietor or place name does make a difference in the desireability of a bottle, for sure.

I talked to some guys doing some storm drain work a few years back. The trackhoe operator said he could hear glass crunching with every scoop. I had heard that a couple of saloons backed up to this low area. I begged, bargained, everything I could think of to get them to let me follow the bucket, but they were so danged paranoid about OSHA coming up or some crap that they wouldn't let me. I thanked them and noticed something laying on top of this mountain of dirt, so I figured I'd go up and over it as my exit route, picking this bottle up as a headed out. I saw the embossing in the slug plate and was happy enough because I had always wanted one of these. I got to the truck and wiped the clay off the back side and saw "Coca-Cola". Found out later from the fellow that wrote the book on Georga crowntops that this was only the third one he had ever heard of. I guess if you can only grab one bottle, it helps if it's a good one. Can't help but wonder what else was out there though...

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That’s a nice early script

 

[sandchip]

That’s a nice early script

Here's couple more Croods. "You able to write, son?" "Well, I uh..." "Good, you're hired!"

 

[villagenut]

I like digging locally embossed bottles like these......but they don't come easy.

 

[sandchip]

I hear ya. They've been extremely hard to come by in my parts. Are "Braidentown" and "Bradentown" early spellings for Bradenton?

 

[villagenut]

I hear ya. They've been extremely hard to come by in my parts. Are "Braidentown" and "Bradentown" early spellings for Bradenton?

Yes it is all the same.....braidentown spelling from 1878-1903....bradentown 1903-1924.....Bradenton 1924-present

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Very nice bottle find!

 

[sandchip]

Here's a couple of Lynch & Clarke mineral waters, both dug by the late Tommy Mitchiner. These are probably the earliest and rarest variants from a partnership formed in 1823 that continued until the death of Mr. Lynch in 1833. The one on the right is known as the "medicine top" and was supposedly a special order for a physician who wanted to add medicinal ingredients and herbs specially formulated for prescription to his individual patients.

 

[RustyRelics]

Bottles I bought yesterday for $36. That green bottle is not a wine bottle, but actually a label-less Blue Lick Mineral Water bottle.

 

[yakker]

Here are a figural bottle I found eroding into the bay up in Maine:





Unfortunately, the cap was missing, which takes any value away, as it's a Lincoln Bank bottle, and the coins go in the cap.
Also found a figural with label 'Kossack', but don't have a pic of it yet.

 

[NJKLAGT]

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Every time you post these it's like seeing them for the first time again. Such killer pieces of glass, such works of art!

 

[sandchip]

Every time you post these it's like seeing them for the first time again. Such killer pieces of glass, such works of art!

Thanks, man. I'm glad that you don't get tired of seeing them. You look at 'em just the way I do, as works of art. The crudity adds so much to their appeal. I'm hoping that one day, my finances will allow for me to add a quart size, if one becomes available at the right time.

 

[sandchip]

Bottles I bought yesterday for $36. That green bottle is not a wine bottle, but actually a label-less Blue Lick Mineral Water bottle.

Can't beat that deal with a stick! I still gotta get me a photo set-up like that. Does a good job of showing the embossing. You must live on top of a mountain. I don't know if I'll be able to find a spot like that down here in the sticks.

 

[sandchip]

Rise and shine, everybody.

 

[RustyRelics]

Can't beat that deal with a stick! I still gotta get me a photo set-up like that. Does a good job of showing the embossing. You must live on top of a mountain. I don't know if I'll be able to find a spot like that down here in the sticks.

Yep! I live right on top of a ridge.

 

[RustyRelics]

My Civil War bottles

 

[RustyRelics]

Just looking at these bottles makes me wish I had a pontiled bottle. Even my war bottles don't have a pontil!

 

[sandchip]

That's a good looking display. You're bound to find a pontil eventually. I've found less than 10 in 45 years of collecting, nothing great and never an iron pontil.

This one's for you, Rusty. My only Kentucky pontil.