Heres a few of my early bottles

[Bill D. (VA)]

Here's a few of my early bottles

Love the colonial era .....

 

[Bass]

Oh wow Bill. Those are amazing. Were they found/dug? Not that it matters but if dug please tell us more! Very nice , thanks for sharing

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[fishstick]

I envy the history you get to play in!!!!! Those are beautiful!!! Thanx Bill..... HH

 

[RelicDude]

Wow that's an awesome collection you have there.

 

[bottlehunterofcoscob]

Amazing, great display!!!

 

[Harry Pristis]

Oh, man! Nice bottles! I love the mallet in front, between the two 'Dutch' onions. I found the neck of a Bellarmine - with the face - in a SC river, but I couldn't find any of the body. You've done well.

Florida is not the place to find much intact black glass, but Guyana is the place with the soft river-bottom sediments. Any of the seals traceable or datable?

 

[surf]

Gadzooks, Bill!

Great Glass and Stoneware! I hope you'll treat us to more photos of those beauties, and their backstories, too, please. That Bellarmine, and those Dutch gins are really appealing to me, to say nothing of that plate, cuz it is playing second fiddle to the fantastic front row.

I'm looking forward to seeing and learning more…

New Discoveries at Jamestown by John L. Cotter and J. Paul Hudson, 1957​

 

[Guest 1551]

Oh my gosh! So jealous of those beauties! Those pipes have unnaturally long stems for dug tavern pipes, were they dug? Either way I have one word for you, AWESOME!

 

[CoilyGirl]

I saw some beautiful Colonial bottles at the CW show here a few months ago,a guy from Maine had them and I was loving the onion bottles he had.Thats a very nice collection you have there Bill.

 

[Bill D. (VA)]

Oh my gosh! So jealous of those beauties! Those pipes have unnaturally long stems for dug tavern pipes, were they dug? Either way I have one word for you, AWESOME!

All my pipes were all dug. But as you know, its virtually impossible to dig a complete pipe from a pit. Sometimes a fairly long stem will still be attached to the bowl. And the long one in the pic was actually reconstructed when I was lucky enough to match up a couple of long stems. Its hard to do that when you're recovering more than 100 stem pieces from a single hole.

 

[Guest 1551]

All my pipes were all dug. But as you know, its virtually impossible to dig a complete pipe from a pit. Sometimes a fairly long stem will still be attached to the bowl. And the long one in the pic was actually reconstructed when I was lucky enough to match up a couple of long stems. Its hard to do that when you're recovering more than 100 stem pieces from a single hole.

haha i'd kill for even ten pipe stem fragments! lol i'll post pics later of my pipes