Hi. My aunt and uncle left me their entire collection of bottles they collected in the 40's, 50's, and 60's. I have no idea if they're worth anything or not. I took a photograph of all the colored ones, but there are still a lot of clear ones. Not quite sure what to do/where to start. If anyone has any time or interest in giving me any tips in general or about a specific bottle and/or how/whether to sell them and/or value, I'm all ears!
These photos show the colored bottles and I've written down details for each bottle, to correspond to the tags in the photo.
- clear glass; tin top like a salt shaker; raised lettering on side: John Wyeth & Bro Phila"; on bottom: "229"
- green; bottom raised "A.B.Co. X"
- dusky green with no lettering anywhere and really, really deep "well" on the bottom going back up into the bottle
- amber; both sides, raised writing "Father John's Medicine; botom: "14" then what appears to be an "I" in the middle of a circle; then "57" and beneath the I in the circle is an 8
- light blue; bottom: just an M in a circle and directly under either a 5 of an S
- goard-like bottle that can't stand itself up; approximately five "bubbles" in the glass and what seams like a seam of sorts around the perimeter
- black/green/amber; only marks are two raised bumps on the bottom and one raised bump in the center of the well; there's a chip on the bottom too
- amber; "contents 7 fluid ozs" on side
- amber with rose bushes raised decoration on both sides and an area where a label could be. on bottom: "6 with a sort of diamond within a circle and then a + sign and below all that the number "10"
- green; on bottom: C S with a 10 under
- amber see pic 0495: at bottom of back of bottle "473-A" / on bottom: a triangle with a cirlce in it and some letters and #s under the triangle/circle
- amber; front: Clover's Imperial Medicine" / one side: "New York" / other side: "H. Clay Clover Co." bottom has a triangle and a couple of circles; looks like the bottle had a screw-on lid, which is missing
- same as #3
- very light blue and had "Whittemore Boston USA" in kind of raised letters in the bottle. On the bottom is simply "13" also kind of raised. And, weirdly, there appears to almost be a metal plate right IN the bottom of the glass -- almost like the glass is surrounding the metal plate.
- blue "Milk of Magnesium" "The Chas. H. Phillips Chemical Company Clenbrook Conn." on bottom: =U.S.A. and a sideways M
- almost exactly like #15 except there's a weird symbol that looks like an H with an A in the bottom part of the H
- amber; "capuoine for headache"
- olive-green-ish; see pic here "0496" ; on bottom: Wm. Sanderson & Son ltd Leith Scotland and then over on the right "wx7"
- olive green; no marking except a large "36" on bottom
- amber; no marketing except on bottom what looks like two 8's right next to each other and then a square with a circle in it and a dot inside the circle.
- iridescent yellow/gold-ish "no deposit no return" and on bottom: 2-3 then 9 with a circle with an I in it, then 68; next line says "S-3"
- olive green with "V.B.Y.F. Villaviciosa" written on the bottom
- very pale green or blue with faint raised marking on bottom: # 1_0
- larger version of #15 and 16 except on bottom it has a sideways M next to USA
- green; on one side "McElree's Cardui" on other side "Chattanooga Medicine Co."
- dark green with two chips on bottom; no markings observed
- exactly same as #4 but bottom says "14 [then I inside a circle] 68" and underneath that an 11
- green; no marking
29: silver, possibly painted inside? the color appears to be inside. bottom has a diamond inside a circle with a 7 on the left of it and an 0 on the right and under all of that an 8 and under the 8, a 10
- green; bottom: 3 with that diamond and circle then 9; under that an 11; under the 11 a "C 47"
- greenish; marking on bottom is a B and then 98
In the photo with just four bottles:
- amber with glass stopper; on bottom is a 3
- image of fish and bottle covered in "scales" on bottom: 4 T in a circle, then 4, with a 2 under all that
- seltzer bottle
- no markings on this amber bottle