Free Bottle Appraisal App Guide

Quick value checklist

• Identify bottle type: soda, medicine, perfume, snuff, whiskey, milk, jar, flask, or decorative glass.
• Check embossing, labels, color, pontil or base marks, mold seams, closure, stopper, and age clues.
• Look for chips, cracks, haze, sickness, repairs, label loss, replaced stoppers, and residue.

Key value drivers

Useful bottle appraisal starts with exact type, age, color, maker, embossing, rarity, label condition, stopper, provenance, and damage. A decorative bottle, a perfume bottle, a snuff bottle, and an advertising soda bottle should not be valued the same way.

When to get a professional appraisal

Use the free screener first for identification. Move to a professional appraisal when the bottle may be rare, insured, inherited, part of an estate, included in a collection sale, or connected to provenance, advertising history, or high-value glass.

Photo checklist

• Front, back, base, lip, neck, shoulder, embossing, label, stopper, mold seam, pontil, and scale reference.
• Close-ups of chips, cracks, staining, haze, label damage, repairs, residue, and any box or paperwork.

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