Just post something...

[Davers]

Sandchip
I like bottles but just can not locate many , mostly Clorox , Purex , & aluminum or Tin screw on lid types .

Ill take the embalmed, or 'Balsed' type's any day , usually some sort of medicine but not super old.
Great Thread

 

[sandchip]

Old find, recent find, bought yesterday or years ago, open pontil or crown top? Bring it. Posted it before? Doesn't matter. Not yours, but one you would love to have? Let's see it. If you like it, we want to see it.

Here's one that was found years ago, not 30 miles from me. It had kicked around the house for years, used by a family to prop a window open. Once the bottle community found out about it, Bob Mebane of Texas traveled to Georgia just to buy that bottle. Upon the passing of Mr. Mebane, it went to the Warren Lane collection, and now I believe it resides in the Mark Vuono collection. Only three examples of this mold exist to my knowledge, the other two in light amethystine and colorless. One of those that I would love to have, but when your pockets only go to the first knuckle, well...



Photo credits and much thanks to Heckler & Company.

 

[sandchip]

Now, back to planet Reality with this little drug store that I found a couple of years back. Pretty sure it was the kinfolk of one of my teachers in school. She looked about 80 years old back then, and you know, it's just "Yes, ma'am, no ma'am" and try to stay quiet and outta trouble. She's long gone now with no family that I know of, and instead of being a little scatbag, now I wish I had spent more time talking with her. No telling what she could've told me that would really matter now that I've grown older.

 

[NJKLAGT]

Here's this other thing, and I found one of these at this site before, metal detecting the first time though. This was in that same trash pit as the Meakin bowl. It's like a stamp, I'm not sure. This one has a man and woman watching birds or something...

 

[Plumbata]

Sadly I haven't had much luck looking for bottles in Wyoming, as the 40 acre old city dump/landfill (~1872-1920 or so) is now built over with homes and businesses and a park covers the rest. I was detecting a curb strip in the area and not 6 inches down was the dump layer with late 1910s stuff everywhere, and while I would if I could, alas even here sinking trenches and digging bottles in curb strips would be frowned upon .

I did manage to dig up on eBay this very rare 1870s applied-lip Patent Medicine from a sleepy farming town a bit west of Peoria, population around 2,400 now and 1,100 in 1880. It's the only patent med known from there and the only example I had ever seen come up for sale since I learned of the existence of the bottle in the '90s. I've spent a lot of time in and near that town, even found their dump, and one of these bottles was at the tippy-top of my list for the collection.

Dr Streeter's Magnetic Liniment
Bristol, Tyler & Co.
Farmington, ILL

 

[sandchip]

That's a great looking bottle, Plums. Sure sounds like a rare bird. Nothing like finally scoring one that you've been after for years. This hobby requires a lot of patience sometimes.

Do you still have that green, pontiled pickle you dug out of that later dump? I wouldn't mind seeing that one again.

 

[RustyRelics]

Here are all the soda bottles I have ever found, excluding some duplicates. Yipee. I want a John Ryan.




I am actually going to sell most of these on ebay, along with a bunch of meds, good soda's and maybe a beer bottle or two. I need some extra money for better bottles!

 

[No gold in NY]

I have that 7up. Wish I had that TruAde. It was my favorite soda back in '55.

 

[RustyRelics]

I have that 7up. Wish I had that TruAde. It was my favorite soda back in '55.

I actually found that 7-UP in a creek, in Lewis County Kentucky. It is almost like new! No chips, defects...even the ACL is perfect! Weird. It's from Maysville Kentucky.

 

[Plumbata]

Do you still have that green, pontiled pickle you dug out of that later dump? I wouldn't mind seeing that one again.

No, sold it years ago to acquire the funds to start my business. I'd love to still have it, but any week of business is now worth well more than it so complaining wouldn't get me anywhere. I've kept all my Peoria bottles and stilll add to them when possible but had decided that NYC pickles from 1849-1854 were a bit outside my focus. Gotta let some things go so new things can come into your life, otherwise they create a dam and prevent the flow of new experience; some wisdom Staunton Dan dispensed some time ago that I've tried to keep in mind.

Still got pics though!

 

[Bass]

I’ve got a couple photos saved in my phone that I can show


This is one of my favorite. It has a small crack about 2” long. Other than that it’s a great flask

 

[Bass]

And one of my favorite cokes.

 

[Bass]

A group of cokes, all but 1 from Monroe or Ruston,LA.

 

[RustyRelics]

Here is a Civil War U.S.A Hosp. Dept. bottle I bought a while ago. It has a flat base, and was most likely made in Baltimore.



Next, we have a clay inkwell, dug by my dad, in a Confederate Civil War hut site.

 

[sandchip]

Your USA Hospital bottle is a great example of how sometimes, staining actually adds to the character and desirability of a bottle. Thanks for sharing. Good picture, too!

 

[Plumbata]

Some diggin' pics!

 

[RustyRelics]

Let's hear it for the straight sides! My favorite of all the bottles! Mostly.

 

[Plumbata]

Let's hear it for the straight sides! My favorite of all the bottles! Mostly.

The BIM fancy-script private mold cokes from Peoria (Chicago and Mt Carmel IL also had ones of the same style) are probably one of my favorite types of bottle to dig. I sure wouldn't mind finding one of those southeastern BIM 1915 hobbleskirts though





edit: The cokes don't really show in the pics, here is an internet pic of one:

 

[Bass]

Great pictures Plumbata, and awesome bottles.

 

[Bass]

I know most have seen this one before, nonetheless, here is my favorite bitters