The Arabia carried a case of Western Spice Mills, amber pepper sauce bottles. They are in the shape of other bottles called the cathedral pattern.
There is no other known Western Spice mills bottle and there are no early cathedral pepper sauce bottles in amber glass.
A single example would go over $20,000 on the open market.
But if you dumped the whole case into the market all at once?
Ohhhhhhhhh it'd take a hit.
Dump the whole dozen? Maybe $3000 per. A couple might even trade for 500 or even less in a desperate time.
But eventually, as long as there were no more found, they would work their way back up.
I once bought some slightly post Civil war ink bottles for 2 bucks apiece. An entire basement stuffed to the rafters with original 1870's ink and mucilage bottles was found somewhere.
A company that never started.
A guy ordered the bottles made and ordered the labels printed, and secured the ink, and filled up the bottles.
Then nothing
Maybe an early death? Maybe just couldn't raise financing?
Whatever happened, the basement was abandoned for generations yet somehow remained dry.
Cool bottles. Brilliant labels that had not seen the light of day in 140 years.
2 bucks apiece.
I should have bought more.
Oh well. Story of my life.
yours Scott
