The condition of your bottle is very important. All bottles must have Dairy Names printed on the bottle   Bad News   If it has chips, scratches, cloudy areas, or is bruised Pyro Glazed Bottles ( Painted ) should not be faded or scratched Plain unmarked clear glass milk bottles are worth nothing at all.   Good News   Great Graphics of a cow, farm scene or a baby A WWII Savings Bond Bottle Multiple Colors. The shape of the bottle (round, square,tall, squat) Is it a baby face? College, University, any school bottles have value City & State printed on the bottle Having a cap from the original diary The year when the bottle was made is important   There are many more factors that may apply The style size rated by best selling: Tall Round & Squat Round pyro Quarts       Best - War Bond, Nursery Rhyme, Poems, Great Graphics, City & State on bottle       Average -  Just the dairy name without graphics Cream Top Quarts Baby Face Quarts & Pints Square Bottles with City & State & good graphics Certain Embossed Bottles also sell There are people that collect Gallons but not many due to the shipping costs. Some Amber bottles have good value. A higher value is always placed on a group of bottles that all have the same basic theme. If you have such a uniform group of bottles, the displays are very impressive. A few types of collections: The 50 States:        Bottles must have a City & State printed on it.               Most people in this category will obtain uniform size & styles of bottles               based on how much display room they have.  If all are tall round qts,               a large display area is needed.  Rare bottles may include States that               had low populations in the 1950's, also Hawaii & Alaska   Regions or entire states:        Collectors try to aquire a bottle for every city in a specific state, Specific Graphics:        Bottles with Farm scenes, or just cows, diary structures (creameries), Babies,        Families, milk trucks, trains, poems, nursery rhymes, milkmen, windmills, etc.   The price is going up fast on Baby Face Milk Bottles Universities & Colleges War Bond Bottles        Amber, Embossed, Squat Round, square . . . . bottles All bottles of a specific shape & size. Multi Colored Pyro graphics:    Only Reds, or Blues, or Green etc. Whatever the theme, someone collects it. BE VERY CAREFUL...............there are many reproductions out there.  MANY   I realize no actual prices are in this E-Mail.  I try to visit every antique shop within 100 miles of my house at least once a year.  There are hundreds of them.  Bottles are priced by amounts they will sell at.  They may start out at $30 . . . . .  6 months later they are $15, if they still don't sell, then anything goes.   On the other hand, clean bottles in mint condition with good graphics should be worth $25 or more.   Collectors often pay more than $100 for a bottle they need.

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