Bottle Dump gives up some Goodies

goldnow · Feb 13, 2010

The other day I found a glass pit in the bushes and at the bottom of a small ravine. They must have thrown their unwanted glass down from the cliff. Glass scares me a bit, after some unwanted experiences, so went and bought some heavy leather work gloves for this project today. The earliest broken top looked like 1700's. It was hand blown, black glass, wine bottle, and with a ribbon of glass around its lip. Most of it was just bits and pieces, but managed to pull out a few complete keepers, though some have hairlines and chips. The three larger ones I have no idea how they survived the 20 foot drop.. Nothing in good displayable condition looks much older than 100 years though.

Tallest one says (3 sides); "SCOTT'S EMULSION...WITHLIME & SODA...COD LIVER OIL
2nd Tallest;...."FELLOWS & C - CHEMISTS - St JOHN NB
3rd tallest;... has a million sharpish ridges, so I'm thinking maybe a poison bottle

An eye wash cup
And an incredible green cut glass perfume bottle
A cobalt blue art-deco perfume bottle
Then there is a real cute small dark green ink bottle that says,.."ATRON"

This my first time in a glass dump, so feel I did good for a nice variety, anyway.

The reason I decided to do the glass dump today was the piece of land I went to first to MD turned out to be someone practice shooting range, and after 15 straight cartridges, I took the hint.

goldnow · Feb 13, 2010

gold fish said:
I dunno, I wouldn't eat out of it, but it's highly collectible, so it can't be that dangerous. There's plenty of info online, so you should be able to find out if there are any real dangers. If it makes you nervous, you can always send it to me for "disposal".......

Cute dog you've have. I've got two Dachshunds, not so cute, actually funny looking. I did check eBay, and the prices were all over the place from $5 to $100s, and with nothing clearly similar. I have no intention of selling it, unless it can buy me a new car. But always happy to know thing's value.

As for it being radioactive, I figure it will kill any cancer I might be unknowingly developing.

DigginThePast · Feb 13, 2010

Cool finds. 8) Sounds like you need to hit the site some more. :thumbsup:

gold fish · Feb 13, 2010

goldnow said:
As for it being radioactive, I figure it will kill any cancer I might be unknowingly developing.

That's the spirtit !! Yeah, he's been my avatar on here for a couple years, now, after 2 moves in 12 months AND a new baby last year, I'm hoping to get back in the "swing" of things, including posting. Again, NICE digs, I've got a couple potentially earth-shaking privvies to dig this summer, I share your love of glass, big congrats on a very cool find.

DFX DAVE in M.D. · Feb 13, 2010

Great Finds. You need to go back with a 3 or 4 prong garden rake, with the bent prongs and dig that bottle dump out. Start at the bottom of the ravine and dig in, then work your way up so you don't cover up anything. When you work up hill you will hit the pockets of bottles to the point that you will be standing up, instead of crouched over and breaking your back.

creeper71 · Feb 13, 2010

DFX DAVE in M.D. said:
Great Finds. You need to go back with a 3 or 4 prong garden rake, with the bent prongs and dig that bottle dump out. Start at the bottom of the ravine and dig in, then work your way up so you don't cover up anything. When you work up hill you will hit the pockets of bottles to the point that you will be standing up, instead of crouched over and breaking your back.

justed wanted to add that you dig down until you find no more glass then work your way uphill It's best if you can get very thick gloves an dig with your hands... I wear 2 pairs a thin pair of palm coated teflon an a pair of cow hide gloves..

Marbleguy · Feb 13, 2010

Vaseline glass UV flashlight..

I've been collecting vaseline glass daily since March of 2003 from an old dumpsite in Borosalvy Canyon just outside of my desert ghost town Trona,Ca. Love the stuff. If you don't have a UV light buy one inexpensively on the web. These are hand held LED UV flashlights. Vaseline glass and green Depression glass both are made with a 3% uranium oxide content and illuminate under blacklight like a 1960s psychadelic Jimi Hendrix poster. If you're working a 1930s era dumpsite you will also find lots of McKee Jadite which also lights up bwain-warping green under UV light. I have twenty buckets of the stuff.

creeper71 · Feb 13, 2010

Re: Vaseline glass UV flashlight..

Marbleguy said:
I've been collecting vaseline glass daily since March of 2003 from an old dumpsite in Borosalvy Canyon just outside of my desert ghost town Trona,Ca. Love the stuff. If you don't have a UV light buy one inexpensively on the web. These are hand held LED UV flashlights. Vaseline glass and green Depression glass both are made with a 3% uranium oxide content and illuminate under blacklight like a 1960s psychadelic Jimi Hendrix poster. If you're working a 1930s era dumpsite you will also find lots of McKee Jadite which also lights up bwain-warping green under UV light. I have twenty buckets of the stuff.

OH YEAH! The McKee Jadite is real nice stuff also an most is pretty expensive to buy now!

detectahead · Feb 13, 2010

Some great finds there! :icon_thumleft:

taropatch · Feb 14, 2010

The two little ones -- light green and dark green are nice finds. Very interesting stuff.

goldnow · Feb 14, 2010

Thank you to everyone with your advice on digging my bottle dump. I love glass. My mother, since I was born sold antique glass, the fancy kind, Tiffany, Loetz, Gallé, Steuben, etc. But I was never allowed to handle the stuff for obvious reasons. In the 1980's, I was living in India during the winter months, and found a lot of imported glass bottles, especially black case gin from the 17-1800's at the local glass dump sites. Then one day I found a Dr. Townsend's Sarsparilla bottle from Albany, New York, (1870s) which surprised the heck out of me in the middle of India, and me being from New York, so I told the owners of the dumps to save any that showed up. Over a few years, I was able to collect only 14 perfect ones. They cost me a dime a piece. I brought 7 of them to the USA one year to sell, but failed to find a buyer (pre-eBay days), so left them in a closet at my sister's place with definitive, strict instructions that they are valuable and don't throw them out. On my return 2 years later (when I really, really needed the money), I found out my mother came to help my sister spring clean one day and gave the bottles away, and I mean for free. Remember my mother was a glass dealer. Bye Bye $5000. (around $700 average a piece they are worth)

On my return back to India, I ended up breaking up with my wife that year, she kept our rented house, and when I came back to collect my belongings a few months later, yes, she had also found them to be dust collectors and gave them away.. Another $5000 bye bye....

I have not described here my emotional reactions to the women in my life, as it was very ugly, and not for the ears of children under the age of 13.

Since then, I barely went near a piece of glass. Some mental block developed in my head, so this is basically the first time I'm back in the glass game.

fistfulladirt · Feb 14, 2010

Nice glass finds! I also have the Scott's emulsion and the Fellows. ffd

crazyjarhead · Feb 14, 2010

Love old bottles but don't know too mush about them. Good luck and hope you find some good ones :icon_sunny:

Mr Tuff · Feb 18, 2010

nice glass finds :icon_thumleft:

MR TUFF

tuatara · Feb 20, 2010

Thank you to everyone with your advice on digging my bottle dump. I love glass. My mother, since I was born sold antique glass, the fancy kind, Tiffany, Loetz, Gallé, Steuben, etc. But I was never allowed to handle the stuff for obvious reasons. In the 1980's, I was living in India during the winter months, and found a lot of imported glass bottles, especially black case gin from the 17-1800's at the local glass dump sites. Then one day I found a Dr. Townsend's Sarsparilla bottle from Albany, New York, (1870s) which surprised the heck out of me in the middle of India, and me being from New York, so I told the owners of the dumps to save any that showed up. Over a few years, I was able to collect only 14 perfect ones. They cost me a dime a piece. I brought 7 of them to the USA one year to sell, but failed to find a buyer (pre-eBay days), so left them in a closet at my sister's place with definitive, strict instructions that they are valuable and don't throw them out. On my return 2 years later (when I really, really needed the money), I found out my mother came to help my sister spring clean one day and gave the bottles away, and I mean for free. Remember my mother was a glass dealer. Bye Bye $5000. (around $700 average a piece they are worth)

On my return back to India, I ended up breaking up with my wife that year, she kept our rented house, and when I came back to collect my belongings a few months later, yes, she had also found them to be dust collectors and gave them away.. Another $5000 bye bye....

I have not described here my emotional reactions to the women in my life, as it was very ugly, and not for the ears of children under the age of 13.

Since then, I barely went near a piece of glass. Some mental block developed in my head, so this is basically the first time I'm back in the glass game.

Not all ladies are like these. Some of them have a crush on bottles and even dig bottle dumps :wink:

Nice finds :icon_thumleft:

I have never found vaseline glass here.

goldnow · Feb 21, 2010

tuatara said:
Thank you to everyone with your advice on digging my bottle dump. I love glass. My mother, since I was born sold antique glass, the fancy kind, Tiffany, Loetz, Gallé, Steuben, etc. But I was never allowed to handle the stuff for obvious reasons. In the 1980's, I was living in India during the winter months, and found a lot of imported glass bottles, especially black case gin from the 17-1800's at the local glass dump sites. Then one day I found a Dr. Townsend's Sarsparilla bottle from Albany, New York, (1870s) which surprised the heck out of me in the middle of India, and me being from New York, so I told the owners of the dumps to save any that showed up. Over a few years, I was able to collect only 14 perfect ones. They cost me a dime a piece. I brought 7 of them to the USA one year to sell, but failed to find a buyer (pre-eBay days), so left them in a closet at my sister's place with definitive, strict instructions that they are valuable and don't throw them out. On my return 2 years later (when I really, really needed the money), I found out my mother came to help my sister spring clean one day and gave the bottles away, and I mean for free. Remember my mother was a glass dealer. Bye Bye $5000. (around $700 average a piece they are worth)

On my return back to India, I ended up breaking up with my wife that year, she kept our rented house, and when I came back to collect my belongings a few months later, yes, she had also found them to be dust collectors and gave them away.. Another $5000 bye bye....

I have not described here my emotional reactions to the women in my life, as it was very ugly, and not for the ears of children under the age of 13.

Since then, I barely went near a piece of glass. Some mental block developed in my head, so this is basically the first time I'm back in the glass game.

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Not all ladies are like these. Some of them have a crush on bottles and even dig bottle dumps Nice finds I have never found vaseline glass here.

I went back to the dump, but only found bits, shards, and slivers, no complete anything. I also found shoes from around 1900 to 1960's, kids broken toys, like half a tricycle frame, and tons of rusted cans. For me to get any deeper/higher into the mountain I'd have to cut down the nasty thorn laden blackberry bushes, so I guess I got all I'll get out of this treasure pit for now.

As for the ladies in my life, I've been lucky, as any bad moments we experienced together are overshadowed by the thousands of good Happy memories we shared.