Old blue bottle with coin motif.

[Coinkid]

I'm a numismatist, so snapped this up when I saw it at Goodwill....Can anyone tell me when it's from? I'm assuming the early to mid 1800's due to the design. Please excuse my poor pictures, I don't have my good camera with me.

I'd say it's about a foot high and it has a seam down the side that stops at the base and the lip. There's an "8" stamped in the bottom.

Thanks guys!

-Paul

 

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[Lucas]

Repro whisky bottle. I forget the dates... 1970's?

 

[hogge]

YEP....My brother in law has a set of 5.....All different.

 

[Coinkid]

Repro whisky bottle. I forget the dates... 1970's?

Oh, dang. Lol. I figured with the bubbles in the glass and stuff it was old...



-Paul

 

[PChammer]

Repro whisky bottle. I forget the dates... 1970's?

Oh, dang. Lol. I figured with the bubbles in the glass and stuff it was old...



-Paul

Perhaps not but may still be worth something even if just a bit.

FLASK

Paul

 

[Saturna]

Many of these repro bottles were based on originals that are super rare.


http://www.bottlebooks.com/reproduc.htm


I especially like the 'Old Cabin Bitters'.

 

[PChammer]

Many of these repro bottles were based on originals that are super rare.


http://www.bottlebooks.com/reproduc.htm


I especially like the 'Old Cabin Bitters'.

When I was 10 or 11, I had found a spot in the woods where I accumulated 4 or 5 garbage bags full of bottles and many of them were super rare bottles. I cleaned them all and kept them until I was 15 or so, then my parents threw them all out, trashed and broken thinking they were just junk. Had I known 24 years ago what they were worth, I would have hid them, lol.

 

[Coinkid]

Thanks guys! I'll keep it. For 5 bucks, I couldn't go wrong!



-Paul

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

You can tell an old bottle by the fading seam up the sides.. An automatic bottle machine lip like yours has a seam all the way up the sides and around the lip. Hard to see in the pic but we are assuming yours is modern.

Seam to top of lip: post-1910 (machine-made)
Seam to top of neck but not onto the lip: 1880-1910
Seam extend partially up neck: late 18th to mid 19th century
No seam: pre-1860

 

[Lucas]

Thanks guys! I'll keep it. For 5 bucks, I couldn't go wrong!

-Paul

Oh, not at all. Those things are pretty cool... especially since most of us can't afford the real deal. I have 3 or 4 repros.

 

[stefen]

Be worth more if it was full and the cork still unopened....hic