Posted 10 years ago
evancloutier
(14 items)
It Says Maine Bottling Company. Lewiston,Maine. It is 9 inches tall and 2 inches wide. It is blown glass and is full of air bubbles. I got it from my grandfather.This has been in his attic for over 60 years. It is crooked while standing up right. I couldn't find much about it.
It appears to be of an early crown-top soda-pop shape. The tooled top should put it before 1920. The base style suggests before 1915, thus it is 100-115 years old.
It looks to be in good shape. Maine Bottling Company seems to have been either a multi-town operation or, more likely, a generic name. I did not locate much in my fairly quick search, either.
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Thanks for the info.It helped me a lot to put a date on it.
since this is already solved I like to point out I seen a bottle like this on ebay sell for around $300 nice item
Sell, or listed at?
Thats very cool. I had know idea it was worth that much. Thanks
What a similar bottle sells for and what an identical bottle sells for are totally different things. So is what a bottle sells for, and the price people want to get for it. You can price it at what you want, but if in an antique store you see, "ebay price $__, our price $__" they're not likely looking at sold value.
I do not think a crown top bottle would sell for that much unless it were a still-existent brand like Coca-Cola and very rare or from a ghost town.
Ya your right but it is still cool.
I'd like to see your grandfather who has been in the attic for 60 years....I like this neat bottle too! RER