Bottle broken.

[Blind.In.Texas]

I was in Hot Springs Arkansas about 10 years ago. I went into this little antique store and did some shopping around. I was really into old old whiskey bottles at the time. Anyway, I find this bottle on a shelf. hand blown, applied mouth, no seams.....very very light aqua color. had the little cone in the bottom of it, i guess, from the pontil(i think thats what it was called). the glass was very thin and had many air bubbles in it. the tag on bottom was faintly marked $20. to me that bottle was worth far more than $20.

i went and asked the gentleman at the counter what the bottle would cost me. he looked on bottom and couldn't quite make out the price. he saw the 2 and said I could just give him $2!!!! I loved that bottle for several years and was very proud of it.

On day I moved from my apartment and didn't realize that the bottle was on top in a box. I just set another box down on top of it's box,knowing the bottle was in there. I simply placed it and the pressure from the top box make it exploded. The top box only weighed a few pounds, but, after a little CS worked I discovered that something hard and pointed had been lying under my bottle. that is what actually did the damage.

Anyone else ever lose a loved one like that?

[TreasureTales]

Will Dig I feel for you. Once something like that is broken, a part of history goes with it. Sorry about your loss.

[Spitfire Reddie]

yes i have i was new to bottle hunting then & i had just found a keeper ! A rare High Point Cloverdale milk bottle from the 20's.It had been buried for a very long time in a cold side ditch by some RR tracks.It was in GREAT condition ! I took it home and started to clean it with hot water (BIG MISTAKE !) the hot water busted and put a HUGE crack in the bottle ,it fell apart .I learned my lesson right then ! Never put a glass bottle in very hot water thats been buried for so long.Now i wait for a couple of hour for it to reach room temp then wash it in slightly warm water !

[lumbercamp]

One day I found a beer bottle that was bottled in the early 1900's. It was in a spring and still had beer in it. I imagine a logger put it there to chill it. Being in the water all those years, it never froze. I put it on display in my shop, never thinking about the cold winter weather. Well you guessed it, the beer froze and broke the bottle.

[Blind.In.Texas]

ah man, sorry to hear that about your bottle. what a waste of vintage beer. at least mine was empty. if it had been full i would have the newspaper it was wrapped in to get drunk!

isn't that an odd way to find a bottle though. in a spring. i cna imagine how cool that woulda been.