The Standard Old Bottle Price Guide

by Carlo Sellari

Book Overview

A pricing guide for old bottles, including: Bitters, Cures, Medicine, Poison, Soda, Mineral Water, Ale and Gin, Beer, Flasks, Spirits, Food, Fruit Jars, Pottery Bottles, Crocks and Jars, Ink, Perfume,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0891453830
• ISBN13: 9780891453833
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Collector Books
• Length: 175 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.5" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

The Standard Old Bottle Price Guide

Have an old bottle? Want to know what it is worth? Then the Standard Old Bottle Price Guide is a good place to look. This bottle guide clearly describes the words, letters and numbers embossed on a bottle or the bottle label making identification easy. An example is "Abbott's Bitters: on base: C.W. Abbot & Co., Baltimore on shoulder; machine made; 8"; amber. $30-40."The Standard Old Bottle Price Guide covers most bottles, including those early bitter bottles that began surfacing when England's George II was on the throne (1727-1760). At the height of the patent medicine phase, drugstores in the United States sold about 365 million bottles of elixirs known as "cures" in a variety of bottles. Most are collectible today.Though the author died while completing the manuscript for this book, it adequately covers these sought-after glass bottles: poison, soda,, mineral water, gin, ink, and perfume. The book even devotes a few pages to fruit jars.This guide is a good addition to any bottle collector's library