The highlight of Glass Works’ online bottle auction was a common bitters bottle in a rare color, ‘St. Drake’s Plantation Bitters’, that sold for $46,000. Read More +
Rare blue-green Plantation Bitters bottle sets new auction record at $46,000
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Learn these three traits to help determine antique bottle values
While everyone wants to know some history and information about their bottles, all of the messages usually end with the same question: “What’s my bottle worth?” Read More +
Welcome to the hobby of antique bottle collecting
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 events. He kicks off with a few antique bottles from Tonopah and Goldfield, Nev. Read More +
Washington portrait flask valued at $20,000 highlights antique bottle and flask auction
WOODSTOCK, Conn. – The lifetime, single-owner bottle and flask collection of Tom McCandless – a dedicated collector whose recent passing left a void in the bottle and glass collecting field – will be sold in three antique bottle auction sessions. Read More +
Unusual colored Louisville Glass Works antique bottles bring big bucks
The big bats in the flask collectors league were hot during a July 25, 2011 Internet and phone auction of nearly 400 early flasks, bottles and stoneware. Among the most sought-after items in the auction were three 1840-1850 flasks from the Louisville, Ky., glass works. Lot 59, a marked "Louisville Glass Works" scroll flask in a brilliant olive-yellow color was the highlight of the sale. Estimated at $6,000 to 8,000, it hammering at $31,050.
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