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From Gary Meyer
Hi Rick I have never posted anything in my life, and I know it's not a western bottle, but it’s a rare color one and I thought some would like to see. I recently attended the Reno Bottle Show and...
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Hi Rick, wanted to share the latest Pony to the line up, this London Jockey Club House Gin is the variant with the backward N's. It has really nice glass clarity. I have seen a few of these backward N...
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How Times Change in 40 Years
I have been looking for a Cassin's, anyone out there have one for $85 to $125? - rs -
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From Charles Festersen
Barbier SchnappsHere is something interesting I just found. This advertisement establishes a date for the embossed Barbier Schnapps bottles being imported into California on August of 1857, as an...
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Super Rare Common Bottle ?
How rare can a common bottle get. Well, as we all know, color is king. No matter what kind of bottle it is. As for a colored pumpkin seed flask, they are very rare. This is a recent find and a first...
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Western Bottles on ebay
Here's a sample of some of the fine western bottles now being offered on ebay. Lots of western goodies for auction on ebay! - rs -
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Gold Rush Find
Hey Rick. Hit an early hole last week and found this big quart size open pontiled med. I found out it's extremely rare and nobody has seen one like this. Super whittled and perfect except for some...
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More Gold Rush Finds
From Kick Kane De-bossed A.T. on shoulder California Gold Rush dug pottery bottle . These were both dug in a very early mining camp that was settled in the Fall of 1848 and had its boom around 1856 ....
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And Yet Another Gold Rush Bottle
Here's a soda I haven't seen before: Hamilton Glass Works N.Y. Red iron pontil In original as found condition Does anyone have any info on this bottle? - rs -
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The Big Pickle
Another Gold Rush Bottle Surfaces This summer has been hot..... temperature and digging wise! - rs -
View ArticleAuction House Lingo
I have been watching some of the bottles for auction on various auction sites and the infamous ebay.What really catches my eye is the descriptions that are attached to the bottles.We all know that the...
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Look What Just Crawled Out of the Woodwork
Check it out at the link below!http://www.westernwhiskeytooltopgazette.com/
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From Charles Festersen
I would like to give a special thank you to the United States Postal Service for helping to protect our fragile heritage! P.S. Have you ever seen a grown man cry?Did the bottle survive? - rs -
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Western Food Bottles on ebay
I just noticed several nice western food bottles listed on ebay C.P. Co. Sunburst base pickle? Nice deep aqua pickle Its great to see some nice western food bottles available at auction - rs...
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Downieville Bottle Show - End of a Era
By Eric McGuire | Western Region Director11 September 2017On Admissions Day, September 9, 2017, the State of California celebrated its anniversary of joining the United States of America as its 31st...
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An Identity Crisis~
Although my primary focus in western bottle collecting has been western whiskies for the past couple of decades and change, such was not always the case. Starting in the early 1970's, I began to build...
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From Nicholas Kane
" CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH BELTS & CLASPS " 1851- 52 Those of you in the bottle digging community may know of me as " Buckle Nick" or the antique restorer in Fiddletown . I dug my first buckles back...
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