Found these in garden this year

[curious kat]

While doing yard work my guy found these only a few inches down and all clustered together. I don't know anything really about bottles, but think these are not to old....only interesting. Does any one know what that second one on right in front row was for?

 

[Back-of-the-boat]

pretty sure it's perfume bottle.

 

[Harry Pristis]

One could easily imagine survivors clearing off a vanity and/or a medicine cabinet after the demise of the user of the cosmetics . . . burying the very personal effects in a shallow hole in the yard. Do you know the history of the house?

 

[curious kat]

Hi Harry....no one lived on the land until we bought it and put our home here. We have 5 acres, there is a older small home next door, no one lives there now. I do like your story about it, sounds good....maybe they were passing through or it was the "trash dump" for next door? lol Interesting story about the bottle with "Worth" on it, it was often bought by GI's during the second WW and sent home to their sweethearts......the translation of it's French name (can't think of it now) means "I will be back". I'm thinking of reposting the second bottle on the right, do you guys really think it was perfume? Did you notice the "rootbeer" bottle in the back?

 

[bottles10]

some one had a nice collection of small bottles.why they would throw them out is any bodies guess. as i said in other post . that is not a bottle but a stopper with cork missing

 

[curious kat]

Your talking about the tiny bluish stopper in front I suppose? I found out it's from a Worchestershire sauce bottle, but don't have the bottle unless one of those is it?

 

[Harry Pristis]

No, kat, we're talking about the second 'bottle' from the right, in the front row . . . the one with the strange bead lip and the four fluted sides. Turn it over and imagine a cork (plastic in later bottles) fitted over the bead 'lip.' It's a decorative stopper for a decanter.

 

[curious kat]

Thank you again Harry.....uh...are you a teacher or something?

 

[Harry Pristis]

Thank you again Harry.....uh...are you a teacher or something?

*ahem* Please don't confuse me with 'surf' and other experts here, kat. I am a bottle GOD.

Seriously though, I am merely a student, looking left and right, as I shuffle on toward the final know-nothing. I am inclined, occasionally, to share some observation or another. But, student I am. I want to learn everything before I know-nothing.

 

[curious kat]

Still funny and a GOD to boot! lol Don't know surf or other experts yet, except you, can you feel me bowing? Oh....please more help....how in the world do I mark my "brown (horse rib) bone" SOLVED? I tried to click on the "thread tool" like it said in a video, but it's not there.....?

 

[BIGSCOTT]

send a pm to surf

 

[surf]

GOD. Harry,

Thanks for the kind words, but I'm still a student, too. I even think I may have been held back a year.

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curious,

Everyone is talking about that fluted, 4 cornered star shaped piece of glass, 2nd from the right in the group photo. The bulbous lip on what you are thinking as the neck, is the bottom of the stopper & would have held a cork or plastic sleeve.

Glass Top Decanter Cork Stoppers | Jelinek Cork​

The bulbous bulb holds the cork sleeve, which keeps the brandy better.

Lady and Beau Etched Glass Decanter​

 

[curious kat]

Wow, another GOD, feel blessed ......Hello Surf, thank you for the info & pictures. So....brandy eh? Must have been a Big bottle! You know, one of the other bottles was from a, I think Scotch, it's that tall brown one with the top on it, think from Scotland? Will have to check again. Well anyway, not all perfume!

 

[surf]

brandy eh?

curious,

I only used "brandy" for alliterative device.

I suspect it's an Old Fitzgerald, but have found no such examples.

 

[curious kat]

Fitzgerald? A kind of.....? Any way, it's not a real "pretty" one, just odd....kind of like you, kidding of course! Sorry Surf, don't know you well enough to have done that, but just couldn't help it....you started it with that cartoon!

 

[Tnmountains]

Maybe there is another dump in the back yard. I dig them in mine as well. Looks to be the start of a very nice collection.

 

[curious kat]

Yes TN & thanks...one never knows until they look, right? No garden in back so probably won't be digging, to lazy. Will just wait until it rains or something & check out what pop's up LOL