Blue Pickle Bottle Brings $16,200

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…