Tall slender cobalt blue bottle

If you love cobalt glass, you’ll salivate over this elegantly simple tall square cobalt bottle. Standing nearly 12-1/2" high, its base is 1-3/4" square and its four sides rise 9" before gently tapering to a long round neck and 1" diameter rolled top mouth. It would make a stunning bud vase. Can’t you just see it with a single yellow jonquil, a white tulip, or even a huge variegated peony? Wow! Unmarked bottom contains a 1-1/8" diameter slightly concave circle. Perfect condition with no nicks, chips, cracks, or scratches. (Click on picture for more images.)

Price: $30.00 + s/h and insurance Tell a friend.

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Muehlebach pilsner bottle with Karl Hutter stopper

Here’s a wonderful piece of history from America’s Heartland: a large antique pilsner bottle from the George Muehlebach Brewery of Kansas City, complete with its original Karl Hutter porcelain stopper and wire bale fastener! Two brothers, George & John Muehlebach, founded the brewery in 1868. By 1879 it had become the second largest in Kansas City, and their pilsner beer was a local favorite. After Karl Hutter of New York patented his porcelain stopper in 1893, Muehlebach used these stoppers for its bottles until around 1915. The brewery prospered for decades, nearly went bust during prohibition and the great depression, had a strong resurgence in the 1940's, but was ultimately sold in 1956 to Schlitz, which itself closed shop in 1973. The Muehlebach family had long since become local icons and were responsible for building the first baseball stadium in KC, as well as the grand Muehlebach Hotel, a favorite hangout of President Truman (another “local boy”), and a downtown landmark to this day. Okay, enough with the history. This dark amber brown bottle stands 12" tall when stoppered and is 3-1/2” in diameter at its base. The front is embossed “Geo. Muehlebach, Kansas City, MO”. The attractive white porcelain stopper carries the Muchlebach logo of a white cross in a red shield, with “Muehlebach’s” above and “Pilsner” below, as well as “Trade Mark” immediately underneath the shield. The underside of the stopper reads “K. Hutter” and “Pat’d. Feb. 7, 1893". The wire bale mechanism is rusty, but still works. Lots of neat air bubbles in the bottle, which is in perfect condition with no nicks, chips, or cracks. (Click on picture for more images.) Tell a friend.

Price: $100.00 + s/h and insurance

Tall turquoise swirl glass bottle

This tall mold blown swirl glass bottle is an absolutely gorgeous deep, deep turquoise blue color, with very little green. It stands 15-1/2" tall with diameters of 1-1/2" at its mouth, 4-3/4" at its widest point, and 3-3/8" at its unmarked base. When displayed in front of a window, the gracefully curved swirls produce a sparkling quilted diamond effect. Wonderful air bubbles galore. Near perfect condition with no nicks, chips, or cracks, but there are a couple of vertical scratches and some manufacturing flaws consisting of horizontal rippling that can be felt but are difficult to see because of the glass pattern unless the angle of the light is just right. (Click on picture for more images.) Tell a friend.

Price: $60.00 + s/h and insurance

Warner Tippecanoe bottle

This is one of the classic (and classically beautiful) Warner Tippecanoe bottles, ca. 1885-1895, in a deep amber color. Standing 9" tall with a base diameter of 2-7/8", it has the embossed canoe and tree bark and distinctive mushroom lip. One side says “Tippecanoe”, the other side says “H. H. Warner & Co.”, and the bottom says “Rochester N.Y.” with a 4 in the center. Absolutely perfect condition with no nicks, chips, cracks, or scratches. One elongated air bubble in the non-embossed portion of the bottle. (Click on picture for more images.) Tell a friend.

Price: $200.00 + s/h and insurance

Huge crackle glass fish bottle

This is a remarkable crackle glass bottle in the shape of a fish that stands securely on his tail and two front flippers. He is highly detailed and a light amber yellow color with applied green eyes. He is very heavy, stands 6-1/2" tall, and measures a whopping 15" from tail to mouth, which must originally have been corked. Definitely the big one that didn’t get away! Actually, we caught two of these rare beauties, and both are in perfect condition with no nicks, chips, cracks, or scratches. Price is for each. (Click on picture for more images.) Tell a friend.

Price: $125.00 each + s/h and insurance

Pair of Grolsch beer bottles

This is a pair of neat old Grolsch beugel (“the gurdle”) beer bottles, one amber and one green. Both have the famous Grolsch white porcelain stoppers that swing off by means of a wire bale mechanism, eliminating the need for a bottle opener (and also securely recapping the bottle to prevent any remaining contents from going flat). Both bottles have four iterations of the Grolsch logo embossed around the bottle, above which is “Grolsch” in the company’s script. The green bottle retains its entire label, identifying its original contents as being 42.3 CL (1 pint) of Grolsch Lager Beer. The brown bottle retains only the upper portion of its label saying “Grolsch Lager Beer.” Both bottles were presumably originally bought in the U.S. because the stopper on the green bottle says “Grolsch Georgia” in red and the stopper on the amber bottle says “Grolsch Florida” in green. By the way, Grolsch’s porcelain stoppers gave way to plastic stoppers a number of years ago, and traditional metal-capped Grolsch bottles are becoming increasingly prevalent. Apparently bottles with porcelain stoppers are only available in the Netherlands today. Grolsch is a Dutch brewery founded in 1615 by Willem Neerfeldt in Groenlo,  then known as Grolle, hence the name Grolsch. Grolsch is currently the second largest brewer in the Netherlands (after Heineken) with annual production of 3.2 million hectoliters. The domestic market comprises fifty per cent of total production, but the Grolsch family of beers is available in 70 countries, with the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, France, Australia and New Zealand making up 78% of Grolsch’s international sales. Grolsch beers were originally imported into the U.S. by United States Beverage, then by Anheuser-Busch from 2006-2008 when Grolsch was bought out by SABMiller. Both of our old empty Grolsch bottles are in perfect condition with no nicks, chips, or cracks. They stand 9-1/2" high when capped with diameters of 1" at their mouths and 2-3/4" at their bases. Both of the flip-up wire bale mechanisms still work and the green bottle’s stopper is easily dislodged. However, the brown bottle’s stopper is tightly in place and we have made no attempt to force it out. (Click on picture for more images.) Tell a friend.

Price: $25.00 for the pair + s/h and insurance

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