Sunday, January 5, 2020

GMC1

Approximate Overall Height: 11"

We love these little medieval inspired crosses made from beautifully refractive, hand-polished square crystals turned on edge. Here they combine with beautiful small octagonal crystals to make a gorgeous crystal cross that is perfect for any collection, large or small.

Forever married to a beautiful antique, rich kelly green bottle with a glorious and ethereal haze that an only be created from a century under ground.

$118.00
Special New Year 2020 20% Off Price
$94.40
Plus $12.00 Insured Priority Shipping and Handling to the Continental USA 

CEOF1

Approximate Overall Height: 10"

These gorgeous and refractive hand-polished oval cat-eye crystals are rare. We were lucky enough to have a dear friend who brought back a strand of these crystals from France, and we only have a few left! They combine here to make a beautiful five point cross that is embellished with beautiful small octagonal crystals.

Forever married to a beautiful antique embossed aqua blue bottle with a glorious and ethereal haze that an only be created from a century under ground. A gorgeous piece perfect for any collection.

$115.00
Special New Year 2020 20% Off Price
$92.00
Plus $11.00 Insured Priority Shipping and Handling to the Continental USA 

Wednesday, January 1, 2020

HFMC9


Approximate Overall Height: 9.5"

Hand forged, this beautiful and large metal cross is one of only a few we were able to procure. Each is slightly different than the other, giving each one the beautiful soul of a handmade piece. Highly detailed on the front, the cross measures just over 4" tall, nearly twice the size of our incredibly popular pewter rosary crosses. 

This antique paean to Christ was the effort of a novice metal worker, but the tremendous overall presence of this stunning cross couldn't be more perfect for the rough/luxe mix that we have established here at Cross Bottle Guy. 

Forever married to an antique embossed bottled, and finished in our signature mercerized patina. A beautiful piece for any collection, and the perfect gift! 


CSC1

Approximate Overall Height: 10.75"

Hand-polished, bohemian fired teardrop crystals make the beautiful arms of this cross, centered on a rare and large square crystal turned on edge and anchored with octagonal crystals to make a gorgeous crystal cross that is perfect for any collection, large or small.

Forever married to a beautiful embossed bottle with a glorious and ethereal haze that an only be created from a century under ground.


FOF21

Approximate Overall Height: 13.00"

Beautiful and refractive hand-polished teardrop crystals combine here to make our most popular five point cross embellished with beautiful small octagonal crystals.

Forever married to a beautiful antique embossed bottle with a glorious and ethereal haze that an only be created from a century under ground, and finished in our signature mercerized rust patina. A gorgeous piece perfect for any collection.


FOC1

Approximate Overall Height: 11.75"

Beautiful and refractive hand-polished teardrop crystals combine here to make a beautiful four point cross that is perfectly balanced on a large German octagonal crystal. Embellished with beautiful small octagonal crystals.

Forever married to a beautiful antique embossed bottle with a glorious and ethereal haze that an only be created from a century under ground. A gorgeous piece perfect for any collection.


Sunday, December 29, 2019

CRR5

Approximate Overall Height: 9.5"

After working with pewter rosary rings, we pulled our smallest octagonal prisms from Germany out, and created this crystal version! It was a great hit in 2019 for our Cross Bottle Collectors, and we are confident you'll still find them worthy of any growing collection in the new decade! 

Forever married to an antique bottled, with the most glorious ethereal inner patina. Finished in our signature mercerized patina. 


PSTR1

Approximate Overall Height: 14.75"

More tokens from France, these gorgeous pear shaped crystals are straight from the Paris flea market! Paired with quad squares of round crystals also sourced in France, the entire piece is finished in our signature mercerized rust patina. 

Forever married to a thick glass, clear antique bottle with beautiful clear embossing. The bottle is embossed to read: 

"JAMESTOWN BREWING CO. JAMESTOWN N.Y."


MFC17

Approximate Overall Height: 10"

These small French pendalogues make the most lovely little crystal crosses, don't they? Refractive with a brilliant shine thanks to the hand carved nature of the front of the crystal, these little French beauties surround an antique rosette with a solder button in the center. Further embellished with  small octagonal crystals to make a gorgeous crystal cross that is perfect for any collection, large or small.

Finished in our signature mercerized rust patina, and forever married to an embossed antique cobalt blue bottle with a glorious and ethereal haze that an only be created from a century under ground.


MCT2


Approximate Overall Height: 10.75"

Another rarity in our little studio, these large magnifying glass teardrop crystals! We have only used these a couple of times, and it was to make our popular peacock shape pendant tops for the ink wells. Of course, when working with such beautiful raw pieces for our art, inspiration strikes in the best of ways.

We created this lovely little four point cross with those big and unique lovelies centered on a small and beautifully refractive octagonal crystal from Russia. The empty space was filled with gorgeous ice pendants, and voila. A whole new cross for 2020!

Forever married to a beautiful antique, aqua blue bottle and finished in our signature mercerized rust patina. A real treasure for any collection.




OTIS1

Approximate Overall Height: 13.5"

We can almost hear the cheers from here! While we still haven't been able to source these gorgeous hand-cut crystals that were such a HUGE hit with our collectors in 2019, we did find FOUR in our studio pack-up, and decided it was time to make our last bottle with them!

They surround a large rosette and the entire piece is embellished with gorgeous small teardrop crystals, and is perfectly balanced on a large German octagonal crystal base.

Finished in our signature mercerized rust patina, and banded by one of our popular solder collars this stunning piece is forever married to a gorgeous antique embossed bottle with an ethereal inner patina only formed from a century buried beneath the earth's surface for safe keeping. A perfect large piece for any growing collection.


ANG2

Approximate Overall Height: 5.5"

In 2019, we unveiled this beautiful angel to our pewter collection. Hand forged, the angel is unique in size and scale, and works so beautiful peppered into our crystal collection and our rosary collections. Rough iron hand forged to create a soft and beautiful angelic statue. Who couldn't use a few angels close by, right?

Finished in our signature mercerized rust patina, this stunning piece is forever married to an antique pill bottle with an ethereal inner patina from a century buried beneath the earth's surface. Perfect for any collection, and a great gift!

 

DPST1

Approximate Overall Height: 10"

Without a doubt, the most expensive and hardest to come by bottles are this gorgeous deep sun purple color. We rarely find them! When we do though, we of course pair them with the best of our handmade crystal crosses for your collections. 

Beautiful and refractive hand-polished teardrop crystals combine here to make our most popular five point cross, embellished with beautiful small teardrop crystals to create a sunburst effect.

Finished in our signature mercerized rust patina, this stunning piece is perfect for any collection.


LPF2

Approximate Overall Height: 10.25"

Without a doubt, the most expensive and hardest to come by bottles are this gorgeous light amethyst color. We rarely find them, but when we do we make art with them even if they're imperfect. This one has a small abrasion that doesn't affect the stability or integrity of the bottle, but we felt it important to note that for our collectors.

Beautiful and refractive hand-polished teardrop crystals combine here to make our most popular five point cross, embellished with beautiful small octagonal crystals.

Finished in our signature mercerized rust patina, this stunning piece is perfect for any collection.


LIVC2

Approximate Overall Height: 18.5"

These ivy shaped French pendalogue crystals were a fan favorite in 2018, but we unfortunately had a hard time finding more after our antique stock ran out. Lucky for us, we found 20 more of these beauties in the new year, enough to make 4 of our large, and beautiful crystal crosses. Here's the first of 2020, beautiful and refractive. A collection of  hand-polished beautiful small octagonal crystals surround a large German octagonal to create a starburst center.

Forever married to a beautiful antique ribbed bottle with a glorious and ethereal haze that an only be created from a century under ground. A gorgeous piece perfect for any collection.


CRW8

Approximate Overall Height: 10"

Eight beautiful and refractive hand-polished teardrop crystals combine here to make a beautiful crystal wreath point cross that is embellished with beautiful small octagonal crystals.

Forever married to a beautiful antique embossed aqua blue bottle with a glorious and ethereal haze that an only be created from a century under ground. A gorgeous piece perfect for any collection.


LWRR1

Approximate Overall Height: 20.75

Lately, we've had several requests for larger cross bottles by long-time collectors and new collectors alike. These large pieces are stunning, using large antique crystals paired with our workroom powerhouse crystals that you've seen in smaller pieces. 

This beautiful acanthus wreath four point crystal cross uses beautiful crystals with a triad cut at the base surrounded by our hand-polished teardrop prisms forming a wreath within the crystal arms of the cross. 

The handcrafted crystal beauty is forever married to an antique scientific laboratory bottle banded in one of our solder collars and graced with a beautiful wood bead rosary. The entire piece is finished in our signature mercerized rust patina. 


Tuesday, October 1, 2019

SFAC1

Approximate Overall Height: 11"

A beautiful French Croix Pattee Alesee Arrondie made from our beautiful octagonal crystals, centered on one of our medium German octagonal crystals has exceptional refractory and a fire. Finished in our signature mercerized rust, the crystal cross tops a beautiful antique embossed bottle from California, with a beautiful interior haze and ethereal glow. It is embossed to read:  "CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. CALIFIG STERLING PRODUCTS (INC) SUCCESSOR"

 SFAC1

FRTF

Approximate Overall Height: 14.25"

So far, we've released four pieces made from gorgeous findings our dear friend brought back from France. This gorgeous hand-carved french oak filigree piece was removed from an antique chest, and offered at the Paris Flea, along with many other pieces our dear friend bought the best of for our creative hands. 

We have embellished this century old rose and vine lattice filigree carving with two sizes of our extremely refractive teardrop and Russian octagonal crystals, to give it the appropriate jewelry we felt it deserved. 

Forever married to a beautifully clear, heavy glass antique embossed bottle which reads:  "BRADFORD BREWING CO. BRADFORD, PA. REGISTERED". it is banded by one of our solder collars and finished in our signature mercerized rust patina. 

 FRTF

Monday, September 30, 2019

SOC19

Approximate Overall Height: 8.5"

No stranger to the Cross Bottle Guy cross bottle line up, this beautiful small cross made of our Russian octagonal crystals is a showstopping example of the old adage, bigger doesn't always mean better. These small crystals have amazing refractory and offer up a brilliant shine. 

Forever sealing an antique bottle with a beautiful ethereal inner patina of pale whites and grays, the bottle is embossed to read: "NEWBRO'S HERPICIDE FOR THE SCALP". 

 SOC19

Sunday, June 23, 2019

RCNI

Approximate Overall Height: 10.5"

We were inspired by beautiful antique jewelry when we made this pretty piece handcrafted with our square prisms accented by tiny teardrops and crowned with a beautiful small octagonal crystal with a beautiful refractory and glow.

The crystal cross is finished in our signature mercerized rust patina and forever tops a bottle with a gorgeous feminine silhouette of shapely ridges. 


STC19

Approximate Overall Height: 9.5"

A beautiful simple cross, handcrafted of our smallest teardrop crystals centered on one gorgeously refractive octagonal crystal, this beauty may be small, but certainly doesn't lack any personality! 

Finished in our signature mercerized rust patina, the cross tops an antique embossed bottle with a beautiful patina. The bottle is embossed to read: "RAWLINGS". 


Sunday, June 16, 2019

4PSQC1

Approximate Overall Height: 11"

We debuted this beautiful crystal shape in 2016, and over the last 3-years it has been a joy to come across the unique collection of crystals used to make this shape and offer it to our collectors. Handcrafted from square German crystals turned on edge, and accented by our Russian octagonal crystals, this four point cross uses our bohemian fired and hand polished teardrop prisms as the arms of the cross. 

Forever married to an antique embossed bottle that reads: "THOS. G. CARROLL & SON CO BALTIMORE, MD" and has a stunning interior patina of pale cream and white. For those of you who love our antique bottles with that ethereal glow, this one is for you. 


PEA19

Approximate Overall Height: 7.5"

A timeless classic, and favorite among long-time Cross Bottle Guy cross bottle collectors. This beautiful crystal creation is handcrafted from one magnifying teardrop crystal surrounded by nearly a dozen octagonal crystals creating what we've termed a peacock feather of crystal. This beauty is the perfect piece to pepper into any collection for variation of style and height, including our sealife collections. 

Forever married to the bottle base, this antique Horse Radish jar is embossed with the farm logo, and boasts a beautiful frosted patina to the interior of the glass. 

A lovely piece of our handmade art perfect for any growing collection.