Colored Vintage Bottles
Colored vintage bottles are an iconic way for collectors to hold on to sacred pieces of a world past. They represent hard-to-capture eras gone by when certain nostalgic trends were en vogue and the world embraced a different kind of priority list or value system. Technology and innovation advances us, and we can only hang on to the relics that helped us become our present selves by collecting items like antique bottles.
Vintage milk bottles, for example, are a throwback to a time at the turn of the 20th century, when the nation was still mostly agricultural. Everyone could look forward the faithful delivery of glass bottles filled with raw milk and bearing the names of local dairy farms.
Besides nostalgia, one other reason that antique soda bottles and other colored vintage bottles have made such a strong comeback has to do with the abundance of online auctions increasing their popularity.
On the eBay auction site, for example, 70-year-old antique seltzer bottles - clear ones that are acid etched with the names of the bottling companies that produced them - offer the collector some important history and a way to have an eclectic decor display. The names etched on the bottles come from two different Brooklyn companies: East Side Bottling Works and West Side Bottling Co. Two silver heads are an attractive spout, though the seller recommends the bottles not be used for consuming beverages.
Another eBay auction offers a 26-ounce vintage cobalt blue antique seltzer bottle. The metal head on this bottle appears to be in working order, if the buyer is willing to purchase a CO2 cartridge. The acid etching on the outside of this bottle reads, "Irvs Sparkling Beverages," and appears to have come from a company in Union City, N.J.
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 Unusual Vintage Antique Collectible Blue Glass Perfume Bottle  US $10.00 |  VINTAGE ANTIQUE SELTZER BOTTLE BLUE ETCHED GLASS new york JENSEN bros chrome LG US $11.00 |
 BEAUTIFUL SCARCE ANTIQUE VINTAGE COBALT BLUE TRILOIDS POISON BOTTLE LK US $12.50 |  1 antique vicks VA TRO NOL cobalt blue miniature nose drop bottle US $13.00 |
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Many collectors have used colored vintage bottles as decorative vases to hold flowers, as modern chic sculptures, or as displayed items in a shelved collection. The rarity of colors tends to drive the price of these bottles higher, and every collector may have a different motivation for making a purchase.
Whatever their reason for buying, there is an entire movement of collectors who are inspired by the beauty and craftsmanship of colored glass. It is an art whose very life rests with the people who are still willing to collect colored vintage bottles.
