Recent finds

[bbheigle0605]

Here are some of my recent finds. Super excited that I finally found a C.Conrad & Co'S Original Budweiser bottle bc I've been finding MANY broken ones! Also found a embossed Dr. O. Phelps Brown, Jersey City, N.J. Bottle. The last 2 bottles (the lavender and mouth blown) were purchased at a antique store. The lady sold them both to me for $25.00. I've never owned a open pontil bottle so I'm not sure what it's worth. I know nothing about the lavender one. Is it from the 1800's? Thanks for answering all my past questions! I've learned a lot from y'all!!

 

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[vpnavy]

Nice finds bbheigle0605. Thanks for sharing...

 

[FriscoT06]

The greenish open pontil 6-sided bottle- let me know what you find on that one- I have one just like it, got it from an antique store, but it has no wear on the base from being placed on counters over the years, so I suspect mine to be a modern repro. You have some very nice bottles there. Love that Jersey City one!

 

[surf]

...I know nothing about the lavender one. Is it from the 1800's?

Hey bbheigle,

If the above is the "lavender" one, no, it's an early machine made horseradish or pickle jar. It started it's life as a colorless product jar somewhere in the 1905 + years. When the horseradish was gone, maybe it got reused, but eventually it went out with the trash and was buried somewhere. After years of slumber, it was jerked from the ashy depths & ended up in the hands of The Nuker. Now, the Nuker knows that this colorless little ABM jar has no worth, unless (cue the scary music) it is irradiated. Before you can type "electron beam, gamma ray," the Manganese that was the decolorizing agent is flipped, and becomes the catalyst for the peculiar PURPLE you now have on your shelf.

This Nuking phenomena really started to catch on with some people in the Nineties. They take common colorless or aqua bottles, for the most part, give them the treatment and market them to non-bottle people who like the color, or think them unusual.

The treatment will turn the colorless a variety of PURPLE shades, sometimes a SICK CITRON to DIRTY DIAPER BROWN color. Fruit jars are targets for the Nuker. If you see a Hobbleskirt Coke in an ODD AMBER, go the other way.

See:

Real Or Repro ~ Identifying Fakes​

 

[Bass]

Thats about as clear as i've ever seen it presented. Thanks surf for the explanation.

 

[Chitlin]

Great bottles and info..... I had no idea.

Have I mentioned how much I "like" this subforum?

No glass for me this weekend but did manage a best 39 coins plus a few buttons, one of them a Federal Artillery one piece.....in todays finds when I get a chance ...

Have a nice day

Chiltin

 

[Bass]

Chitlin, i joined this site because of the metal detecting forum. Once if found this part of the forum, i don't spend as much time in the metal detecting area.. There are some great people on here who are very helpful and a lot can be learned from them.

 

[Bass]

BB, are you finding these bottles in the "honey hole" you were working on a few months ago?

 

[ohio]

Man, Nice digs! That lil Jersey City bottle is cool. With those mold blown slicks you are SO close to finding a pontiled bottle! I just dug a pit with several of those guys in the same layer as OP and iron pontiled stuff. Did those come from a privy?

Thanks

Chuck

 

[bbheigle0605]

Hey bbheigle,

If the above is the "lavender" one, no, it's an early machine made horseradish or pickle jar. It started it's life as a colorless product jar somewhere in the 1905 + years. When the horseradish was gone, maybe it got reused, but eventually it went out with the trash and was buried somewhere. After years of slumber, it was jerked from the ashy depths & ended up in the hands of The Nuker. Now, the Nuker knows that this colorless little ABM jar has no worth, unless (cue the scary music) it is irradiated. Before you can type "electron beam, gamma ray," the Manganese that was the decolorizing agent is flipped, and becomes the catalyst for the peculiar PURPLE you now have on your shelf.

This Nuking phenomena really started to catch on with some people in the Nineties. They take common colorless or aqua bottles, for the most part, give them the treatment and market them to non-bottle people who like the color, or think them unusual.

The treatment will turn the colorless a variety of PURPLE shades, sometimes a SICK CITRON to DIRTY DIAPER BROWN color. Fruit jars are targets for the Nuker. If you see a Hobbleskirt Coke in an ODD AMBER, go the other way.

See: <img src="http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=843974"/> Real Or Repro ~ Identifying Fakes

Well crap. Thanks so much for the VALUABLE info! I will now know next time! Do you think the blown bottle is a fake or repo?

 

[bbheigle0605]

Bass assassin and Ohio, yes this came out of the same hole that I've been digging in for months! It's been hard to get to bc of the Mississippi River flooding it! I sure hope I will find a open pontil bottle. That would be AWESOME!

 

[surf]

Hey bbheigle,

I don't want to give you any more bad news, but I do not like the look of the one just north of the nuked one, either. I'd be scratching that "antique store" off my list, me.

I'm in the middle of the great garage purge on my end. I've recycled about four 5 gallon buckets of bottles so far, including 3-4 un-nuked horseradishes. The high-point recycling wise was scrapping $243 in copper & brass. I've since found about 10 pounds more copper & I'm within six feet of the southern end of the garage.

I have found some good bottles, that I totally forgot about, so it was the joy of digging redux.