The Standard Old Bottle Price Guide (Paperback)

by Carlo Sellari (Author), Dorothy Sellari (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 175 pages
• Publisher: Collector Books (March 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0891453830
• ISBN-13: 978-0891453833
• Product Dimensions: 11.2 x 8.5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,622,288 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars The Standard Old Bottle Price Guide, May 1, 2000

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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