20 bottles found a while back...need help with ID, date etc?

[Ghondi]

So, during the summer when MDing a site I thought would be good*wasn't to bad, actually* I came across a bottle dump...most, and I do mean most of hundreds of bottles were smashed beyond recognition...
I did manage to grab these 20 before it was to dark to see...
Any chance some of you might be able to help me find their dates, names, makers, and what they are worth, and any other information that may be helpful?
If you need closer or larger photos to help, lemme know, I'll snap some more. Just lemme know what numbers.
Thank you.

 

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[Harry Pristis]

So, during the summer when MDing a site I thought would be good*wasn't to bad, actually* I came across a bottle dump...most, and I do mean most of hundreds of bottles were smashed beyond recognition...
I did manage to grab these 20 before it was to dark to see...
Any chance some of you might be able to help me find their dates, names, makers, and what they are worth, and any other information that may be helpful?
If you need closer or larger photos to help, lemme know, I'll snap some more. Just lemme know what numbers.
Thank you.

Good job with the images!

These bottles are not old enough to have any collector value beyond the value to you as mementos of your day in the field.

That said, #2 is a glass fuse which was commonly used before re-settable circuit breakers were invented.

#5 & #6 appear to be the bottles that were used for maraschino cherries.

#14 appears to be a bottle used for olives or capers.

#19 is a salt or pepper shaker.

Keep digging, the older bottles may be buried beneath these recent bottles.

 

[Monty]

Here's the ones that I remembver from my mom's refrig and medicine cabinet. "Riker" bottle some kind of dental product. #4 Mentholatum rub,#9 and #12 vinegar, #11 horseradish,and #17 cough medicine. I remember seeing some of the others but don't remember what was in them? Monty

 

[SHERMANVILLE ILLINOIS]

Ghondi,
if I was you.............. .................
Sorry, let me start over.

Ghondi,
may be a good idea to go back to that location
and dig down a bit.

Ofter newer dumps are on top of old dumps.

If your out that way give it a try; Im talking
shovel digging not just a small digger...............

have a good un.....
SHERMANVILLE

 

[Ghondi]

Thank you all.
I didn't think they have much value except sentimental as they were my first bottle finds...

SHERMANVILLE ILLINOIS I will try to get out there when the weather clears up...I hope you are right about the older dumps being by newer ones...
I know these were left by a single person...actually, its an odd story...

Anyone have any ideas of what years these would have been from?
I'm trying to piece together the story...and a date range would be awesome.

So far I know these were dumped by a crazy hippie who was a crazy hippie..literally, he lived on a school bus in the middle of the woods by no one...
I was only out there because I wanted to see the bus...its there, lol. I happened to bring my detector the second time, and some bags so I could carry the bottles..as the first time me and a buddy just went for a walk through the woods to see this bus...then when we were out there I realized it was close to an older road...before cars...horse and buggy type of stuff...*found one old square nail while detecting for 25 minutes...until it got to dark..as its dep into the woods*, and whilst getting dark I decide to search through the bottles we had seen on the previous trip out there...and this is what I got...
Next time I will be going much earlier and I'll dig for more bottles and MD a lot more...
So about the dating thing, any ideas like 50's-60's-70's? I kind want to verify they are the crazy hippies and whatnot.

PS. The crazy hippie died in the 80s I believe.

Again, thank you all for your help.

 

[treasurefiend]

LOL - My parents & I both have #19 it is a salt or pepper shaker.

 

[allen]

way to go on those neat looking bottles...