antique bottles

Welcome to the hobby of antique bottle collecting

By: Antique Trader Staff | September 27, 2012 | Comments 0

Bottle expert Michael Polak joins Antique Trader as a columnist on issues important to bottle collectors. Known as the author of "The Bottle Bible" Polak has a long history in the hobby and will share news from bottle clubs shows and sales, upcoming auctions and pricing results and ongoing bottle hobby...

Collecting antique bottles from Hawaii

By: Antique Trader Staff | August 10, 2012 | Comments 0

The history, culture and beauty of the Hawaiian Islands are intertwined with the history of the many varieties of bottles found there. The importing of bottles to Hawaii dates back to 1851.

Blake & Brent Cousins: Hawaii’s antique bottle hunting brothers

By: Antique Trader Staff | August 10, 2012 | Comments 0

Blake and Brent Cousins, known as the “Bottle Hunters of Hawaii,” have found 3,000 antique bottles and a following on YouTube. Not a bad total considering they’ve only been collecting for two years. Raised on a sugar plantation dating back to the 1800s, the brothers do the majority of their digging...

EXPO 2012: Seminars, sales boost Reno antique bottle show

By: Antique Trader Staff | August 10, 2012 | Comments 0

EXPO 2012, the three-day antique bottle show and convention kicked off July 27, 2012 in Reno, Nev. with a crowd of 600 dealers and 160 “early bird” attendees. Between 300 to 400 collectors attended the convention. Within minutes of the door opening there was a flurry of activity as deals quickly...

Old Cabin bitters bottle may shatter $75,000 bid in antique bottle auction

By: Antique Trader Antiques Auction News | July 23, 2012 | Comments 0

A Kelly’s Old Cabin bitters bottle is expected to sell for as much as $75,000 in an online-only auction of antique and vintage bottles, closing Aug. 19, 2012. The 185 lots of antique glass bottles include whiskeys, sodas, mineral waters, Eastern and Western bitters, historical flasks and a group of target...

Rare double eagle historical flask brings $53,820 in antique bottle auction

By: Antique Trader Antiques Auction News | June 25, 2012 | Comments 0

A rare and early double eagle historical flask made in Pittsburgh circa 1820-40 sold for $53,820 in an antique bottle auction. he exceptional and beautiful pint flask, in the great GII-1 mold with crisp embossing, had a sheared mouth and pontil scar. It is quite possibly the only known specimen of...

Heisey collection of pig pottery bottles brings $125,000

By: Antique Trader Antiques Auction News | April 2, 2012 | Comments 0

A rare and unusual collection of pig-shaped figural pottery bottles sold for $125,000 at a recent Glass Works Auctions. Of the 333 lots in the auction, 55 were from the collection of Gene Heisey, whose wife preserved the collection for 25 years after his passing.

Perfume bottle collector group adds more public events

By: Antique Trader News | March 26, 2012 | Comments 0

The best perfume bottle dealers in the world are coming together to sell at the IPBA Perfume Bottle Show & Sale May 5-6, 2012, in Jacksonville, Fla.

Pennsylvania ‘Mystery Tavern’ dig uncovers more than 700 artifacts

By: Karen Knapstein | November 16, 2011 | Comments 0

Rick Weiner and his partner Paul Seidel dug the privy of a 19th century tavern, finding nearly 700 antique whiskey and other bottles.

Rare Watts & Co. coffin phone may headline wide-ranging collector auction

By: Antique Trader Antiques Auction News | September 26, 2011 | Comments 0

DENVER, Pa. – A large percentage of the world’s population has never even seen a dial-face telephone, but that certainly wasn’t the case with the late Bill Daniels. The massive collection of antique and vintage phones that filled his home comprised a chronological archive of Alexander Graham Bell’s 1876 invention and...

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