30 bids pushed the closing price on an amber Van Vliet jar to $21,978.98 - this ebay bottle auction closed July 19th. You have to love it when a person lists something as rare as this with the description “”brown glass” - obviously it was found by someone who knows nothing of bottles and jars. Guess they got a surprise at that closing price!

Rare Van Vliet jar in amber

Check out this auction yourself at ebay.com

I stumbled upon a straight roof Clevenger EG Booz bottle on ebay this week - this is a classic Clevenger piece that is fairly faithful to the original and looks genuinely old. The experienced collector, however, knows to look for the details that distinguish it from the originals.

EG Booz Whiskey Bottle

Do you have an original EG Booz bottle? It might just be one of the 31 different reproduction molds documented by Tom Haunton in Tippecanoe and E.G. Booz Too! - A book about cabin bottles Tom’s book (available now only on CD) describes each in detail and the book is richly illustrated throughout. He even went to the effort of assigning a McKearin classification number to each mold. Continue reading “EG Booz Old Cabin Whiskey”

This 75-lot “hidden” auction closes August 7, 2008. Top bids from this online bidding process will go up against the live auction called by Norm Heckler at the FOHBC International Show in York, PA August 8-10

Closes Monday April 28th, 2008 at 11:00 PM EDT

Great bottles and glass: black glass, Pittsburgh pieces, New England glass and more.

Absentee Auction 85 - Closed March 12, 2008

Lots of great historical flasks, glass and other quality wares.