A rare blue pickle bottle sold on eBay for $16,200 in April. Maine Antique Digest (August 2012) reported that the seller, Carol Bickle of Pennsylvania, had bought the bottle in a box lot at an estate sale. Bickle said the bottle had a label attached to it that said it cost $25 at a 1976 sale. Bickle put the bottle on eBay and wrote more and more description as she answered questions for possible bidders. The blue (not cobalt) bottle is 10 1/2 inches high, 3 3/8 inches across and has embossing, an expanded neck, and an aqua lip. Two bidders fought it out at the end, taking the price from $7,889 to the final $16,200 bid by Kim Kokles, a well-known serious bottle collector from Texas.

Photo courtesy of Ralph Finch. Blue pickle bottle (center) is shown here compared to cobalt and aqua colored bottles.