Post your favorite bottles!

[metaldetecta]

I would really like to see your favorite bottles! I am relatively new to this hobby and need some motivation to continue. I have been looking occasionally for about two years now and really want to get into bottle collecting. Here is my favorite bottle so far that I found in a river last summer. Happy Memorial Day, thanks to all you veterans for your sacrifices! Thank you all so much in advance!

 

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[bottlehunterofcoscob]

That's a really interesting top on that bottle, cool!

 

[RelicDude]

I second that . That is a very unusual lip finish is it abm or bim?

 

[metaldetecta]

I second that . That is a very unusual lip finish is it abm or bim?

I believe bim because the seam goes to about 1/2 or 2/3 up the way of the neck. There are scratches up the neck that were done by hand tools too. I like this bottle a lot because I found it in Ypsilanti, Mi which is about an hour away from my house, and it is from a company in Ypsilanti.

 

[Bass]

Hey, that's a great bottle. I can see why it's your favorite

 

[Goldenplug]

. I made these shelves for my bottles. . the chaos shelf...lots of buried treasures in there.

 

[metaldetecta]

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Thank you so much for showing me! You have an amazing collection, and are an inspiration to me!

 

[metaldetecta]

Here are a few pics of my collection and my better finds. I really want to start locating older bottles as all the dumps I find are from the 40s-50s. I get tired of digging mostly machine made bottles.

 

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[metaldetecta]

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That is one heck of a bottle! I really like the color and design of that Paterson. That is one the coolest bottles I have ever seen! Thank you so much for posting!

 

[Plumbata]

That Pontiac milk with the chief is a nice piece, one sold for 85 plus shipping so if more can be found in your newer dumps I wouldn't be too disgruntled, though digging in old bim dumps is good fun. Nice finds.

 

[metaldetecta]

That Pontiac milk with the chief is a nice piece, one sold for 85 plus shipping so if more can be found in your newer dumps I wouldn't be too disgruntled, though digging in old bim dumps is good fun. Nice finds.

Thank you! I found it in a lake with my brother about a year ago. I will go back this summer and try to find more. There were some old shards on the bottom of the lake.

 

[villagenut]

I love all my bottles... but my favorite is one I dug not from a pit but rather a fresh Goodwill dump, price was a buck fifty if memory serves me. I wonder if any on here have dug one or shards of one.

 

[bottlehunterofcoscob]

I love all my bottles... but my favorite is one I dug not from a pit but rather a fresh Goodwill dump, price was a buck fifty if memory serves me. I wonder if any on here have dug one or shards of one.

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Oh man what a score!

 

[metaldetecta]

I love all my bottles... but my favorite is one I dug not from a pit but rather a fresh Goodwill dump, price was a buck fifty if memory serves me. I wonder if any on here have dug one or shards of one.

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That is insane! Congrats on your awesome find! Some of my best bottles I got were from garage sales for a buck or under.

 

[Goldenplug]

I would love to dig one of those.