rare error or just an error? Bottle people Please help!

[relic lover]

This was in a lot of poison bottles I got at auction. I am sure I am the first to notice the error. the N in "taken" is either backwards or is a K. also it is a boots cash bottle but it says cash boots on the back. I have tried and tried to find any mention of another error bottle like this one with no luck. Is my bottle truly unique?? PLEASE help me with my research I am at a total dead end!

 

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[ukeden]

Re: rare error or just an error?

dont no about the mistake but its a nice bottale love the colour

 

[UncleVinnys]

Re: rare error or just an error? Please Please help!

I think you HAVE something there - but I'm no expert.
Take it to a dealer.

I believe the imprints were stamped while the glass was still hot,
and someone making the type stamp mis-spelled TAKEN,
then went back and "double-died" it, which would make it
pretty rare.

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

Re: rare error or just an error? Please Please help!

I believe the glass is blown in a mold, not stamped, or ABM mold. All the bottles probably have the same error because the mold was made in error. I doubt it would increase the value like coins. It is a very nice poison bottle.

ADDED: maybe SWR would know more.

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

Re: rare error or just an error? Please Please help!

I found your bottle on eBay, but I cannot tell by the pic if the "N" is backwards. You could write to him and ask. Maybe there was more than one mold. http://cgi.ebay.com/ANTIQUE-GREEN-P...1QQcmdZViewItemQQssPageNameZRSS:B:SRCH:US:101

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

Re: rare error or just an error? Please Please help!

Here is another. http://cgi.ebay.com/EMERALD-GREEN-H...goryZ897QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem clearly a different mold with a correct "N".

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

Re: rare error or just an error? Please Please help!

I hate to throw this out, but it could also be a fake.

http://www.bottlebooks.com/Repros/fake_bottles_discovered_at_new_m.htm

http://www.antiquebottles.com/repro/

I know some unscrupulous types have pushed Chinese/Indian/Mexican made counterfeits of insulators, "antique" auto parts, paleolithic tools and bottles . . . even modern faked whisky in faked bottles.

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

Re: rare error or just an error? Please Please help!

Since the letters have to be cut into the mold reversed, like a mirror image, I would imagine this type of error happens quite often. I have seen other old hand blown bottles with a backwards letter or two. Whether or not it increases the value, I dont know.

 

[relic lover]

I guess my real question is can anyone find another example of this error bottle or do I have the last surviving example, dare I hope?

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

You might want to contact the A.P.B.C.A. (Antique Poison Bottle Collectors Association).

AND THERE IS ONE! http://poisonbottleclub.org/