ok i have been reading all these great stories and i have one too , mine is not ci ,it is a bitters bottle ,one day a friend of mine who collected stoneware whiskey jugs with writing on and as me if i would like to go along a i said sure and when we got there this guy had jugs everywher and bottles and to make long storie short ,my friend bought a jug off of him and he had this bottle that looked like a barrel and 10 ins high and raised rings on and i asked him if it was for sale and he said yea its a repo and he would take $15 dollars i said ok i will take ,well when i got home i had a bottle book and this one was in it but not in this color called puce a off green ,so i took it nashville to aman that was head of the bottle collectors of nashville and show it to him and he said it had to repo ,but he was going to alanta that weeken to a show and i said take and see what the other guys say about and when he got back with it said he would give me $500 for i said let me think about so i made some calls to some of the guys that were at the show and i started getting more offers all the up to $1200 and the guy that i had let take it the show still had it and i told him that i had a offer for $ 1200 and he said would i sell it for that and i said yes so he sent me a check and i was happy and he turned right aroung and sold it for $2000 and ass far i as i know if finally sold for $3000 ,and i was happy and so was everyone eles that's my storie and i am sticking to but it is a true on ;D ;D