Featured 7 Uranium and 2 Blue Spanish Late 19th C. Chemist Bottles

! Just picked up a brilliant lot of bottles bought from my local auction! Magnificent and the condition mirrors my excitement haha. Only flaws seem to be the wear to the labels.

Absolutely love them. Gonna keep my favourites and eventually sell the rest to get my money back.

This style of chemist bottle was used continentally, as opposed to the more commonly seen in the UK, ribbed bottle with the gold & red label and the smaller mass produced green poison bottles.
The brown and clear versions of this bottle are fairly common but the uranium and blue glass versions show up much less often. The one here with the black label I haven’t seen at all elsewhere online. I’d date these comfortably at between 1880 - 1910, maybe a little later. The reflective gilding is a date give away

Found makers names on the bottom of them! Didn’t except it from bottles of this variety. The blue bottles have ‘Alemania’ stamped on which translates to Germany in Spanish and the uranium green have ‘G. & D.’ on.

Found makers names on the bottom of them all, I didn’t even expect any of bottles like this! The blue bottles say ‘Alamania’
I’ll post a picture of them in their full uranium lit brilliance when I next have my UV light with me.

 

Hi Nathan,
What a wonderful collection. I miss all my old bottles.
greg

 

They're ALL NICE!!!!

 

these are fabulous Nathan Can't wait to see them lit up!

 

Thanks you cxgirl and aquitaine they’re my prize bottles now.

What happened. Did you need to sell them @gregsglass?

 

Love'em!

 

Thank you everyone These we’re all one lot for about £250. I almost feel bad that somebody has done some serious collecting and I’ve swooped in and bought them in one lot. But I also don’t feel bad because...reasons that are obvious

 

Hi Nathan,
Downsizing to a small retirement home had to give up almost 1000 bottles. Took about 30 with me but no room to display them so they had to go too. All of my glass and china went. Moving from a three story home with full walk up attic and a large cellar and two car garage with a loft into a bungalow with no attic, cellar and a small one car garage lots had to be gotten rid of.
greg

 

Wow how did you decide on those 30 bottles? I wish you luck moving out, I suppose none of us can collect forever.

 

Hi Nathan,
The bottles I saved were older ones and my favorites. Then all of a sudden the prices started rising and I made more on ten of the bottles more than the other 20.
greg

 

Cool, definately interesting to see the market changing.

 

Interestly, when I went to Google Spain to find comparables, the only ones that came up were in Argentina. Here's an example that looks close to yours.

https://articulo.mercadolibre.com.ar/MLA-624016763-antiguo-frasco-de-farmacia-color-verde-uranio-_JM

Debora

 

That one converted is about £400. I think that’s the higher end of retail but then again I haven’t seen the taller bottles for sale.
One of the smaller ones sold on eBay for £107 not too long ago. But they’re worth a little more really. Around £200-250 sounds like a fair retail to me each.

 

They are beautiful. Looking forward to the UV pics.