Sell ​​Antique Poison Bottles on eBay

Pharmacy bottles are very collectible, especially one that once contained poison that can really go for hundreds or thousands of pounds. By nature, are not enough, just unusual, and appeal to those who collect bottles bottles in particular general or pharmacist.

Something that stands out like a sore thumb on eBay to search for 'bottle of poison' is the fact that few copies on eBay go unsold, except those that are over-price or carry a heavier reserve.

Take a look at popular poison bottles for sale on eBay and check out similar examples that sell at flea markets where they are often one or two dealers that sell nothing but bottles, especially beer, more often in the shape of a bottle of anything . Nobody can know everything there is to know about prices and few sellers use eBay online anyway, so there is opportunity here to buy bottles of poison waiting for a few pounds of one hundred times the price on eBay.

Let these recent achievements eBay whet your appetite:

* Described simply as an 'old bottle of poison', a purple bottle well illustrated collected $ 631.

* A bottle of poison amber 'to a point near NORTH WALES' made £ 216

* A 'Rare Petite Owl Drug Co. Cobalt Poison Bottle' made $ 102.50.

* A 'Beautiful Cobalt Medicine Bottle Style Poison' labeled 'This bottle was found in the bed of a river around Marietta, Georgia still has some dirt inside that I left the authenticity. I've seen a lot of fake imports' went for $ 81.00.

Other things to know about poison bottles

* Color is important to some collectors, especially cobalt (blue), amber (golden brown), green. A lot of poison bottles and feature items on eBay pain described getting lost in the crowd, to add interest to your listings, instead of describing your stock blue / orange / green, say Cobalt / Amber / Green Bottle.

* Avoid setting a reserve price on bottles of high quality. Look at the mass selling is no longer able to sell items in the completed auctions and you can always see good items and sell at high prices. The reserves are largely useless, you add to your listing fees, and may discourage bidders who, seeing two similar elements, a subject, no one, will always opt for the latter.

* Note that some listings indicate where they were found bottles, often on the toes or a retired chemist and apothecaries. This adds authenticity - provenance - and helps reduce concern about the proliferation of fake bottles of poison entering the market today. Check bottles carefully, look for signs of age, looking scratches and dents, jagged edges, where the bottles could have existed on the surfaces of stone or brick walls for long periods of time. A bottle is rarely a perfect old.

* Some bottles have labels indicating the machine or the provision of pharmacy that is beneficial for the process of authentication. Check the names for the authenticity, asking local historians, research online, look in the local business directory and Kelly several decades ago. Look in the history books, old postcards, check, check chemical that actually exist in towns and villages whose names coincide with those of your bottles.

* Among the rarest poison bottles are those with skull and crossbones, or just a skull that were popular from the mid 1800's to early 1900. Few people can read in those days, so 'Poison' formulation of a bottle may go unchecked and actually resulted in many accidental deaths, at the time, unlike a skull and crossbones that most people associate with the death! Other methods designed to distinguish poison from reliable medications for people who could not read color included (most bottles of poison were cobalt blue, yellow, green), or putting them in the shape of the skull or coffin.

* A bottle of poison in the form of a skull was patented in 1894 by Carlton Lewe and became one of the rarest and most precious bottle, worth between £ 1,000 and £ 3,000 .......