Thread: Barbers bottle

Originally Posted by 10Pups

Buddy you could seriously start something here. I was already looking at pewter wire which seems cheap enough but the dang solder for it was like 30+ a roll. Yikes. I'm sure it would last long but for an experiment it is a little much of an outlay for me. Plus there is still the time and list of things I already have to do. Like make a stopper for mine now. Dang Engine46 :<0)

It's a crazy world Pups. When i'm on eBay sometimes the craziest things jump out at me, cool things though, just from doing different searches. It's too bad they don't have their wildcard anymore which was an asterisk used in a search! All kinds of stuff would come up but they stopped that. I don't know why, it was really cool!!!

These are part of my bottle collection. I got interested in the clam broth bottles because they were popular when my grandfather was barbering in Caribou, Maine in the 1920's. The Witch Hazel and Bay Rum bottles get used daily. Dominica Bay Rum is one of my favorites. The shaving paper waste jar has a lid which is rare to find and also the shaving cream jar with lid is not easy to come by. The small jar is a talcum shaker.
The colored bottles are made by N. Wapner of N.Y. and date to the end of the 19th century. The clear bottle is rare. They also made one in milk glass that I have only seen once. It would be nice to find one to complete the set. The Carl Monkhouse scissors in the picture belonged to my grandfather.

That is a cool collection of bottles. In my watching I have noticed a lot of these bottle sets are mix and match. I know it's hard to get a set of anything that actually looks like a set. The ones that crack me up are sold with whiskey bottle type pour spouts. I mean it looks like the seller just said okay get one of those out of the bar and pop it on there, then it will sell :<0)

Originally Posted by 10Pups

That is a cool collection of bottles. In my watching I have noticed a lot of these bottle sets are mix and match. I know it's hard to get a set of anything that actually looks like a set. The ones that crack me up are sold with whiskey bottle type pour spouts. I mean it looks like the seller just said okay get one of those out of the bar and pop it on there, then it will sell :<0)

The 3 clam broth bottles came as a set. The other pieces I picked up separately.