bottle dump

The bottle says “ Listerine Lambert Pharmacal Company” and at the bottom it is a diamond with the number 500 in the center. I understand that this is Illinois Glass Co. and I’m led to believe the number 500 is the catalog number. I am having a difficult time finding the exact year for this...

hey yall! im Shimoji and im a completely amateur antique bottle hunter (and whatever other old things i can find). Right now im nostly walking the park lagoons and the mississippi river getting LOTS of old broken glass. Im interested in doing a privy dig and trying to find the old town dumps...

I found this Rockford Dairy Co. milk bottle while metal detecting an old dump site. It says sealed with an inverted 48 on the reverse side and a 27 on the bottom. I cannot find any info. on the company or any value info. on the bottle. Anybody know anything about them?

So i found my first actual bottle dump today, which is apparently pretty hard in the North Texas area. Now I didn't find anything beyond belief but i found a few bottles I thought were neat including (most of) a Dr. Thacher's Liver and Blood Syrup, some bottles which I believe could be perfume...

I found these RC cola bottles back in the woods behind my house about a week ago. I think they are from the 50s.

here are some bottles I found this weekend at a bottle dump i located in the woods. I know these are fairly new, but I like finding newer ones rather than older bottles, its just my preference. there are a few vaseline jars, ammonia bottle, jars, and others

Hi Guys, Thanks to several replies to an earlier post, I have found five old home sites from the 1920's in the woods that no longer exist. They are literally within 1 mile of my home on private property which I have permission to search. NETR Online ? Historic Aerials was suggested to me by a...

I found a bottle dump with beer, whiskey bottles and an embossed asprin bottle. Seems to be from the 1950's. This is an area where I know from old maps a few homes where there in the 1920's. How far and in which direction would the old house be located? There is no indication of any foundation...

I'm pretty new to bottle digging and this website as well. I'm from New Hampshire and Vermont, but I recently found a small bottle dump and I've slowly been digging it in my free time. I've found lots of medicine, ink, and whiskey bottles, and canning jars. A lot of common bottles but a few good...

I didn't see a thread for this on this forum. So I thought it would be a good subject to start chatting about. I know that you can go to your local city building or courthouse and get maps to locate the old maps of properties. They show where the outhouses were and that is where people used to...