Colorado crown cap found in the mountains above Manitou Springs ID help.

[Colorado Treasure Tunting]

I live in a private community called Crystal Park which is above Manitou Springs and found this bottle buried in the ground. Curious if anyone knows about this exact bottle. On the back of the bottle, it says This bottle never sold.

 

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[vpnavy]

1st - I noticed this was your very first post - so, Welcome Aboard Colorado Treasure Tunting! Take a look at Forum: Colorado for information (i.e., clubs, etc.) directly related to your state.

2nd - I searched Google and found...

Talks about the company (and picture)
Manitou Bottles and Bottling Plants

WORTHPOINT: UTE CHIEF EMBOSSED MINERAL WATER CO SODA BOTTLE MANITOU SPRINGS COLORADO​

 

[diggingthe1]

I dug one a long time ago, I forget what it sold for. I'm guessing around 100. There are quite a few varieties but yours is my favorite. If you Google it a lot of very interesting history comes up about the spring. VP has a great link! They are quite rare and I haven't seen one on eBay in a while. With the "this bottle never sold" the bottling companies were worried about other companies filling their bottles. You live in a great area, do you have access to the Crystal hunting up there? My boys and I have always wanted to get up there!! It is a great bottle, Manitou bottles are pretty collectable. You could probably sell it down in Manitou for quite a bit, but it sure would look nice in the window. Let me know if you find more and want to get rid of them

 

[sandchip]

Great looking bottle. Love the embossing.

 

[jgas]

That’s a keeper for sure. Love that embossing. Nice and crisp clean. Congrats. Jgas.

 

[Colorado Treasure Tunting]

Yes, I am 17 and live up in Crystal Park, I mainly dig for minerals, I would have to ask my parents, but we could maybe do a hike up there.

 

[diggingthe1]

Yes, I am 17 and live up in Crystal Park, I mainly dig for minerals, I would have to ask my parents, but we could maybe do a hike up there.

My son's are 16 and 12, we are very friendly and would enjoy that immensely if it were to work out. I'll send you a message with my contact number. I hope you run into more bottles!! I bet you have some nice Smoky quartz!!

 

[Colorado Treasure Tunting]

My son's are 16 and 12, we are very friendly and would enjoy that immensely if it were to work out. I'll send you a message with my contact number. I hope you run into more bottles!! I bet you have some nice Smoky quartz!!

I know the exact location, which is about 3 miles away, where one of the largest topaz was found a few years ago. I also have several spots to go to find amazonite and smoky crystal formations. All are found in the National forest.

 

[diggingthe1]

Sounds like you have some excellent locations!! It is so cool to watch crystals roll out of the dirt!!

 

[PikesPeakCharlie]

Congrats !!!!! You have the rarer variant , your bottle dates 1907 - 1909 . There are more Ute chief bottles out there than some think, but you have a good one ! Back around the turn of the century the plant had a problem sanitizing the bottles and destroyed all that they could get their hands on . I found the spot where they dumped all the broken ones , it is a 4 to 5 foot layer of broken glass that ,if you dig into it , there are whole ones to be found . I dug an unlisted Ute chief seltzer there , plus many others . While digging down into this layer of broken glass I found that it covered an older dump which gave up a Fox and a Cook both pharmacy bottles from Manitou and even a couple Denver whiskey flasks , sadly this dump is now behind a Fence and inaccessible. Welcome to TN , HH

 

[diggingthe1]

There are a couple caps posted on this thread from the Manitou Springs. Pikespeakcharlie was telling me on the phone that they had a huge glass bottle around one of the springs. I looked up a picture

http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/t...lorado-midland-railroad-hasp.html#post6526880
Imagine digging that bottle up!!!!!

 

[tokameel]

Welcome to T-Net C.T.T. ! Keep the questions and sharp photos coming.

 

[xr7ator]

GRATS on some GREAT GLASS!

 

[curbdiggercarl57]

Killer bottle!
PikesPeak is dead on, here's a scan from the Colorado Bottle Book.
Kudos!
Carl View attachment 1840499

 

[curbdiggercarl57]

I just checked, and apparently my photo didn't post.
I'll try again.
Carl
This is from the Colorado Historical Bottles

 

[PikesPeakCharlie]

Carl , you must have the old book . His bottle is the Ute Chief Mineral water co , not the bottling co variant , here is the correct pic from the newer book . Carl , how are u doing down there ?? find any shipwreck bottles yet ?

 

[curbdiggercarl57]

Carl , you must have the old book . His bottle is the Ute Chief Mineral water co , not the bottling co variant , here is the correct pic from the newer book . Carl , how are u doing down there ?? find any shipwreck bottles yet ?

Didn't know there is a newer book, need to get one.
Florida is okay, yet to find anywhere to dig bottles.
Detecting mainly 1950-60's coin drops.
They have a term I'm not familiar with when pertaining to weather conditions.
Oppressive.
As in 8:00 am, 87 degrees, 85% humidity.
Oppressive.
Great to hear from you, and apologies for a short site hijack!

 

[PikesPeakCharlie]

Carl , the newer , 2nd , book came out in the early 80s. Stay healthy ! Keep the humidity out there

 

[trdking]

Great Bottle!