My bottle collection.

treasurefiend

Gold Member
Mar 17, 2008
7,445
93
Chicago IL
🏆 Honorable Mentions:
1
Detector(s) used
Minelab_Excal_II Minelab_Explorer_SE_Pro w/ SunRay pinpointer & Garrett_Ace250
Primary Interest:
All Treasure Hunting
Here is my bottle collection. I only found 2 of these, Twistidd gave me 2 and Bilt36 gave me 3 of them.
I also have 2 coke’s with painted letters, lots of olives and pickle jars and a ton of tiny asprin’s.
Bilt36 gave me #2, #3, #4 from the left & Twistidd gave me #5, #6. The 2 that I found are on
the ends #1 & #7, oh well, here they are.

3253727045_299477e91f_o.jpg


3253724755_9ffc438161_o.jpg
3254550064_1b2db6aa1e_o.jpg

3254550100_d4a4d7fbca_o.jpg
3253724725_dea07f283f_o.jpg
3254550268_beae8eede5_o.jpg
3254550300_7cf711358d_o.jpg
3254550240_5110ec1198_o.jpg



3254549758_c6166ee435_b.jpg



3254549964_f07cf1b257_b.jpg
 

DigginThePast

Gold Member
Dec 31, 2008
10,706
86
Primary Interest:
All Treasure Hunting
Cool bottles. 8) I particularly like the ones in the second row of pictures.
 

twistidd

Bronze Member
Nov 11, 2007
1,789
3
Chicago
Detector(s) used
White's Matrix M6 w/ Sun-Ray DX-1, 950 coil and 6x10 DD, Minelab Excalibur II, Garrett Ace 250, Garmin Etrex GPS
Cool bottles! I like the ones Bilt gave to you, got quite a few of those myself, including an exact duplicate of the one that says "Chicago Consolidated"...once you see the dump I found, you'll easily triple or quadruple your total. None are as old as the ones Bilt got you but they are old and embossed.

Joe
 

OP
OP
treasurefiend

treasurefiend

Gold Member
Mar 17, 2008
7,445
93
Chicago IL
🏆 Honorable Mentions:
1
Detector(s) used
Minelab_Excal_II Minelab_Explorer_SE_Pro w/ SunRay pinpointer & Garrett_Ace250
Primary Interest:
All Treasure Hunting
Awesome, I cant wait to get to that place!!!!! :icon_pirat:
 

Brett

Bronze Member
May 8, 2008
1,591
1
Montgomery, IL
Detector(s) used
Minelab E-TRAC w/Sunray X-1
I wonder what a "Malted Milk Lunch Tablet" tastes like? Sounds nasty.

Cool bottles Fiend! I hope you find a lot more this year :)
 

mikewaz

Bronze Member
May 9, 2008
1,606
4
Chicago
Detector(s) used
Fisher 1266 X Fisher F75
Those are pretty cool bud!
I'm not into bottles, but I know I would be if I started finding ones like this.
Mike
 

watercolor

Silver Member
Feb 3, 2007
4,112
1,351
Arlington Heights, IL
Detector(s) used
V3i, MXT-All Pro and Equinox 800
Primary Interest:
All Treasure Hunting
Fiend, those bottles are wonderful!

That "Muller" bottle you have came from the old soda factory that was just down the street
from where I live. The remaining structures on the property are now occupied by the Historical Society.

Take care,
watercolor
 

Lowbatts

Gold Member
Jul 1, 2003
6,573
67
Elgin
Detector(s) used
Fishers 1235X-8" CZ-20/21-8" F-70-11"DD GC1023
Brett said:
I wonder what a "Malted Milk Lunch Tablet" tastes like? Sounds nasty.

Cool bottles Fiend! I hope you find a lot more this year :)
Pre-cursor to Ovaltine. Found dozens of them over the years. They were in every house with kids and some without.
Excellent soda bottles Fiend!
 

makton

Sr. Member
Mar 5, 2008
403
20
New Lenox, Il
Detector(s) used
Explorer II with 10x12 SEF
I was looking for one with blood all over it....Twistidd must have kept that one for himself :o
Sorry Twistidd, had th throw that out there.
Nice collection!!

Makton
 

kimsdad

Silver Member
Apr 17, 2008
4,692
24
Moronica, northwest of Chicago.
Detector(s) used
E-trac & Bounty Hunter Land Star
Great bottles, Fiend! :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

Little did Mrs. Kimsdad know that once I started metal detecting in the woods, I'd start dragging old bottles home too.

Anyone out there ever find an intact half-pint milk bottle? I've found plenty of pieces, but no whole ones.
 

Lowbatts

Gold Member
Jul 1, 2003
6,573
67
Elgin
Detector(s) used
Fishers 1235X-8" CZ-20/21-8" F-70-11"DD GC1023
kimsdad said:
Great bottles, Fiend! :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

Little did Mrs. Kimsdad know that once I started metal detecting in the woods, I'd start dragging old bottles home too.

Anyone out there ever find an intact half-pint milk bottle? I've found plenty of pieces, but no whole ones.
Yes, found many of those, the creamers. Dairies from Woodstock to Chicago. I like pulling quart bottles that are intact out of digs, that usually is the first indication the site was buried prior to the Red Ryder Wars.

Strangest bottle find I've made is some kind of structure back in the woods, fairly isolated in Trout Park. A concrete structure that may have once looked like a large, very large drinking fountain. It was formed by dozens of quart milk bottles from numerous dairies in concentrically expanding and diminishing arrays, all partially encased in concrete. I think some old milk culture used it for sacrificial purposes to some higher dairy entity.
 

twistidd

Bronze Member
Nov 11, 2007
1,789
3
Chicago
Detector(s) used
White's Matrix M6 w/ Sun-Ray DX-1, 950 coil and 6x10 DD, Minelab Excalibur II, Garrett Ace 250, Garmin Etrex GPS
Lowbatts said:
Brett said:
I wonder what a "Malted Milk Lunch Tablet" tastes like? Sounds nasty.

Cool bottles Fiend! I hope you find a lot more this year :)
Pre-cursor to Ovaltine. Found dozens of them over the years. They were in every house with kids and some without.
Excellent soda bottles Fiend!

"More Malted Milk Lunch Tablets, please!!!"
 

twistidd

Bronze Member
Nov 11, 2007
1,789
3
Chicago
Detector(s) used
White's Matrix M6 w/ Sun-Ray DX-1, 950 coil and 6x10 DD, Minelab Excalibur II, Garrett Ace 250, Garmin Etrex GPS
makton said:
I was looking for one with blood all over it....Twistidd must have kept that one for himself :o
Sorry Twistidd, had th throw that out there.
Nice collection!!

Makton

lol! I gotta start looking for those Bloody Mary's!
 

Top Member Reactions

Users who are viewing this thread

Top