Please feel free to send any antique bottle or glass questions to ferdinand@peachridgeglass.com. The information will be posted if relevant or of interest to the readers. I will try to answer or wait for another reader to respond. Quality images are very important. Thanks! If you want to see previous questions,go to “Mailbox Letters” in “Categories” on the right column of each page.
Mailbox Letters
October – December 2014
FOHBC Commemorative Bottles
Hello Ferdinand. How are you? I hope you and yours are doing well. I am trying to help out a young person who has inherited his grandfathers bottle collection get fair prices for the collection, as he is trying to sell them. I am forwarding some pics nine in all of some commemorative FOHBC bottles, and would like to know if you have any idea of what they are worth. I appreciate your assistance here and thank you in advance for any or all help……Take care……Andy Volkerts, member, FOHBC.
[follow-up] Hello Ferdinand. Here is the embossing info. I have written it out along with the bottles color.Blueish white ceramic bottle, ABCC Denver Colorado 1966. Red Glass has the eagle from the pikes peak flask and is embossed Antique Bottle Club Denver Colorado 1867, reverse has pikes peak & has the miner on it. Golden colored glass bottle is embossed The Federation of Historical Bottle Clubs 1868 with an eagle in center of embossing. Blue glass bottle has the miner from pikes peak flask & is embossed Antique Bottle Club of Denver Colorado 1868. He also has not pictured, a Kelley’s style cabin bitters bottle in black glass with “ABCC” on one roof and “Cabin” on the other roof. Again I thank you for your effort to help us on this project. Yours……..Andy Volkerts
Andy…
Andy: I have seen a few on eBay selling for under $50. We are putting together a History of the FOHBC piece so info like this is important. As far as value, I believe that is more sentimental and not based on rarity. Tough to make a call. Can you get a pic of the …Kelley’s style cabin bitters bottle in black glass with “ABCC” on one roof and “Cabin” on the other roof? – F
Wykoop’s found in a wall…
Hi Ferdinand, I was able to score on a great pick today. I have attached 4 pictures of this bottle in as found condition. This Wyknoop’s & Co’s Tonic Mixture Warranted To Cure Fever & Ague New York was found inside an interior wall of an 1860s homestead which is located in southern Michigan. After 150 years it gets to see the light again. The color is light cobalt in the middle and a darker cobalt in the top and bottom. Still has some of its label. This makes two of this recently turning up from southern Michigan. Frank (Wicker)
Read: Dr. Wynkoop’s Sarsaparilla – New York
Up in the Nets
Hi there, my partner is a fisherman and trawled up this old bottle from the east coast of Australia. We are just wondering how old it might be & where it may have originated from. See attached picture. Regards – Tanya
PRG: Looks like a small pickle or sauce bottle. Hard to tell with it not being embossed.
Basement of Bottles
Sir – Are there any antique bottle dealers here in metro Atlanta, Georgia? I have several boxes full of bottles, many are 40-50-60+ years old. I am cleaning out the basement, and have decided to try to sell those of any value. Charles, Atlanta, GA
