Identifying Old Bottles???????/

[daisy]

I have several old bottles and one is a whiskey bottle from the 1800's.

I identified one as a Pepsi bottle from 1947 by googling the patent # at the bottom.

All this is interesting to me and I will get the ones my father had someday.

Does anyone have tips to identify them and know how much they are

worth?

I can list or describe some if anyone can help me know what I have.

Just curious and find it interesting to know how people used to package things.

[Conveyor Belt]

I'm a bit of a bottle nut, myself daisy. I like the older out of business soda bottles and bottles that had cork stoppers. I've got a few from digging in the old junk areas of the family's lands.

I've always been a 'plunderer', as my grandmother used to call me.

[Pop]

Maybe not after you drink it!!!!:laugh:

http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u173/teak420/drunk.jpg

[58ford]

I know that blown glass bottles are the most valuable. the way you can identify them is that the bottle & the rim of the neck were made in two separate pieces & "welded" together. You can see the seam where the neck joins the rim. one piece molded bottles came about after metal capping machines were introduced, the blown bottles rims would break off when capped. This is what made inexpensive bottled beer possible.

[eyescene]

Take some pictures Daisy and upload them to photobucket.com It would be interesting to see them.

[No-Halo]

I'm kind of an expert on identifying old bottles Daisy. I'll even post an example for you...
http://www.parkwayreststop.com/archives/Old%20Pugh%20Bottle%20100%20per%20cent.jpg <-----Old bottle

http://www.bkmarcus.com/blog/images/food/Coke.gif <-----Not an old bottle

Just another public service I was glad to assist with. :clap:

[CUPCAKE]

Daisy and Conveyor Belt, my Dad was a "bottler" and I spent many days with him digging for treasures. A real neat place to dig is in old "priveys" on old homeplaces. People would fill the holes with trash, including bottles, when they moved the privey or got indoor plumbing. They can be located by indentations in the ground or with metal detectors.

[daisy]

I only have a not digital camera. I guess I can use my sister's digital when I see her.

I just washed one out again. With salt, rice and a water mixture and it got some of the stuff on the side. I used a straw on some of the others.

I read on some website where you can even use non-corrosive bbs to shake some of that stuff out.??/

I got that off a digger's site.

I know one is fairly common--a Sauer's extract bottle--about 5" high.

One of the others is strange. You can only stick a straw in the neck. tight neck.

[eyescene]

Daisy you can pick up some really good cheap digitals for just such as this. Casios are good.

[daisy]

Daisy you can pick up some really good cheap digitals for just such as this. Casios are good.

How cheap? I looked at one for $100 at Wal-Mart. That is not cheap to me.:smt086

[firefly]

I have some very old liquor bottles that I inherited from my Grandfather. Some are quite unusual looking. I would like to find out what they're worth.:)

[daisy]

I have some very old liquor bottles that I inherited from my Grandfather. Some are quite unusual looking. I would like to find out what they're worth.:)

How old are they? Does it have labeling on them? pictures? On the bottom there is sometimes #'s and letters and often that means the patent for the bottle.

I read where that is why bottle distributors paid $$ for the return of the bottle --cheaper than making another bottle.

[daisy]

I just found this:

http://www.antiquebottles.com-

[Amberjack]

After the bottle in front of me - or did they say the frontal lobotomy - I may never identify much of anything, new or old.

[eyescene]

How cheap? I looked at one for $100 at Wal-Mart. That is not cheap to me.:smt086 Well it is for a digital...maybe check ebay.

[eyescene]

Just went to eBay (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110153109928&ru=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.ebay.com%3A80%2Fsearch%2Fse arch.dll%3Ffrom%3DR40%26_trksid%3Dm37%26satitle%3D 110153109928%26category0%3D%26fvi%3D1)and on the front page was the first bottle Coke use. How about 2000.00 for a bottle?

"BIEDENHARN CANDY CO" HUTCH! ~ "ROOT 471 / BCCo"

[bpitt]

I can ID beer bottles, that's about it.................

[58ford]

How cheap? I looked at one for $100 at Wal-Mart. That is not cheap to me.:smt086
I bought a $10 web camm at Big Lots, it takes decent stills too.

[mac]

You might find this interesting (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110153109928&ru=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.ebay.com%3A80%2Fsearch%2Fse arch.dll%3Ffrom%3DR40%26_trksid%3Dm37%26satitle%3D 110153109928%26category0%3D%26fvi%3D1). It's an old bottle for auction on Ebay. The seller is in Jackson. The bid is currently $3,301.00!!!!!!!!!

I guess lots of people are into this.

[mac]

Just went to eBay (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110153109928&ru=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.ebay.com%3A80%2Fsearch%2Fse arch.dll%3Ffrom%3DR40%26_trksid%3Dm37%26satitle%3D 110153109928%26category0%3D%26fvi%3D1)and on the front page was the first bottle Coke use. How about 2000.00 for a bottle?

"BIEDENHARN CANDY CO" HUTCH! ~ "ROOT 471 / BCCo"


Woops-- I didn't see you had made that post before I made my last one. Sorry.

A bottle that happens to be in MS just happens to be on the front page of Ebay on the day we discuss this? Tracking cookies suck.

[daisy]

Woops-- I didn't see you had made that post before I made my last one. Sorry.

A bottle that happens to be in MS just happens to be on the front page of Ebay on the day we discuss this? Tracking cookies suck.

Mac, it's ok. We sometimes need to read something like that twice to get it. Amazing.

I want to know if it SELLS for that. Or does it have to be relisted.

Anyone know of any bottle shows coming up???????

I found out my little bottle of 5 and 1/4 inches height is worthless or so some expert said. It was a medicine bottle made in 1905 and is shaped oddly.

Like a Sauer's extract bottle in the way the sides are smushed in or indented.

If you run a straw down the neck it squishes it and does not move freely.

The top is flattooled and the base has no markings other than moon indentations on the base and side right above it.


The bottle has a slight pinkish cast.

Hopefull, I can post some pictures.

Just got a digital camera off e-bay with 5 megapixels and 8 zoom thanks to Aaron's tips a while back.

It is under $40 with shipping. I may need help after I get it.:smt105:(:laugh:

[mac]

Sounds interesting. I wouldn't worry too much about the value. Sometimes it's fun to collect old or unusual things just because they're interesting. I do that with old books.

The bottle on Ebay will definitely sell for that or more. There were 13 bids on it when I looked earlier today, and it had 24 hours yet to go, so it may get up much higher.

[mac]

it's already at $3,551