Pickle Jars..

[IMShooter]

Cathedral shaped pickle jars are very very collectible. Some run 4-5k...This guy on ebay is selling his entire collection. 61 bottles. The bid is at 17,100.00 right now and is expected to hit 40-60k (his reserve is mid 5figures). Nice pile of glass.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/CATHEDRAL-PI...torefresh=true

[canudiggit?]

That's crazy!! Those are some cool looking bottles though. Be curious to see the final price.

[chipper01work]

Originally Posted by IMShooter

Cathedral shaped pickle jars are very very collectible. Some run 4-5k...This guy on ebay is selling his entire collection. 61 bottles. The bid is at 17,100.00 right now and is expected to hit 40-60k (his reserve is mid 5figures). Nice pile of glass.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/CATHEDRAL-PI...torefresh=true

Go to the completed listing section of Ebay and you will see a single cornflower blue cathedral pickle jar that sold on Ebay for $16,200 last week. The seller got it an estate sale in Pennsylvania.

[IMShooter]

yah..people are nuts for those cathedrals!!! there's a small green med bottle that just sold for 6k recently. even with all of the dumps at the family farm, I'm sure I'd reach 6k MD'ing float copper before I'd find a bottle worth that much!

[chipper01work]

Originally Posted by IMShooter

yah..people are nuts for those cathedrals!!! there's a small green med bottle that just sold for 6k recently. even with all of the dumps at the family farm, I'm sure I'd reach 6k MD'ing float copper before I'd find a bottle worth that much!

Well I'm pretty well versed on bottle values (my avatar is a picture is a small portion of my collection). There have been several bottles and flasks that have sold in excess of $100,000 in the last 24 months. For those interested below is a link to the website created and maintained by Ferdinand Meyer. He is one of the premier collectors of antique glass and much of his collection is pictured on the website, including a Cobalt Blue Fish Bitters (one of the bottles that sold for more than $100,000 in the last two years. Dig deeply into the site and you will see some of the most expensive bottles on earth and one of the best collections out there. The website is enormous and you could literally spend days exploring it. If you want to start right off with lots of great pictures, after you click the link you will see an option bar near the top of the page. Click on where it reads "color" and enjoy the show. PS. If you like the site please post it here.
http://www.peachridgeglass.com/

[Xaquin]

those bidders are suckers!

like you could even fit a pickle in one of those

(yuk yuk yuk yuk)

[Dubay420]

Originally Posted by Xaquin

those bidders are suckers!

like you could even fit a pickle in one of those

(yuk yuk yuk yuk)

...I was actually wondering about this (maybe its because i did not see anything for scale?).. also.. what makes it "cathedral"? The square beveled style of the bottle?

[IMShooter]

Chipper, did you see the 240k Coke Prototype last month or month before that sold? that was nuts.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57336213/coke-bottle-prototype-auctions-for-$240k/

[IMShooter]

The top banner pic for the peachridge site makes me want to sit for hours and browse and drool. not to mention that ink...and I'm not even a big ink fan.

[NightShifter]

The Peachridge site is just amazing, I never knew bottlecollecting and bottlehunting even excisted until recently. Guess people in Finland really dont collect them, atleast not in a wide scale. More bottledumps for me!

[metaladdict]

On the west coast the highest price bottle at an auction was a rare bitters bottle,it sold for like 75k!!!

[RyanChappell]

You are probably better off finding a 120 year old bottle than a 120 year old coin. This may apply for any age of bottle/coin.

[seanprodanas]

i should probably start paying attention to the bottles i discard on hunts....good grief!

[IMShooter]

I was never into bottles prior to the past couple of years. The inlaws farm is huge and like most old Finnish Yooper farms, full of old dumps/cars/appliances etc...

Was MD'ing with 2 nephews not old enough to hunt yet during rifle season and we came across a dump of bottles/cans. They were enthralled so we started digging them up and piling the junk cans/bottles on the lip of the dump to "organize" it. Ended up pulling quite a few ACLs and milks out and i was suckered in.

It soothes my OCD/ADHD to have a focus like digging one of the privies or sorting through one of the many (I've only found 5-6 so far) dumps on the farm.