Bottles

[wildrider]

Did someone say bottles?

My curio, with mostly my bitters and antiques, as well as some various wine and milk bottles:

Comments

[shirebound]

Oh my goodness, what a collection! Are those antique Coke bottles unopened?

[wildrider]

No, sadly, the empty out front is the only real antique (if you look closely you'll note the filled ones actually say "Coke Classic," which dates them) -- one of them is marked "Grand Canyon Railway," too. :)

[fenchurche]

Oh wow... Clearly Canadian! I haven't seen that stuff in ages!

[wildrider]

I know! It was good, too.

(And some of the stuff that's still in production, like Arizona Ice Tea, is in plastic bottles now...)

[myrhiann]

Gosh, I would love to have a close look at the contents of your cabinet. Lot's of lovely and interesting pieces in it.

[wildrider]

And it's hard to get really good pictures, because of the glass and the mirrored back -- I was trying to get someplace with the least amount of glare to get a good shot!

I'm very proud of my collection -- I've been collecting the bitters bottles since I was in 5th grade.

[myrhiann]

I also have a glass and mirror cabinet filled with treasures. I tried to get a decent pic but gave up in despair. You may have noticed I took the bottles into the garden in order to get a reasonable pic.

[thismaz]

Wow, what a collection! Very impressive.
I really like the variety of shapes in the second picture and the way the light catches the different colours. I think there is a blue one shaped like a man's head in there?

[wildrider]

Yes! It's George Washington's head, actually -- I believe it's modeled on an inkwell, I'd have to look it up to double-check, though. May have simply been another bitters bottle initially.

A lot of my bottles are reproductions, but they're more than old enough to be authentic antiques on their own!

[curiouswombat]

What fantastic colours! I'm so glad I thought of using 'bottles' for the challenge!