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19th-Century Bottles

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money Start Price:10.00 USD Estimated At:60.00 - 200.00 USD
19th-Century Bottles
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30.00USD+ (6.00) buyer's premium + applicable fees & taxes.
This item SOLD at 2021 Mar 16 @ 07:31UTC-7 : PDT/MST

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Title: 19th-Century Bottles
Description: In 1845, retail traders in British Guiana "were driven to establish among themselves a currency of empty bottles and junks of sugar cane" (Governor Barkly, as quoted in Robert Chalmers, A History of Currency in the British Colonies (London, 1893), pp. 135-36, cited in Don Taxay, Money of the American Indians (Flushing, N.Y., 1970), p. 59 (Opitz, p. 90, adds British Honduras, without citation—one bottle illustrated, p. 89). This lot contains a pair of similar empty 19th-century bottles, one of which however is marked E. Kiderlen (for Kiderlen Superior Gin, circa 1885-1910).
Low Estimate: 60
High Estimate: 200
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