William Bruce Brewery Bottles and more 1854-1894

[tinpan]

Hi all , went to a house demo site this afternoon , located the back yard trash pit and dug a few bottles.William Bruce came the Shetland Islands in 1854 and was well to do brewery owner.At one stage he was apartner in 4 local brewers and out Right owner of the Bendigo brewery and half owner of the London brewery in Sandhurst.His brewery ran for 50 yeras and closed in 1894.The beer bottles found today are quite large and are etched embossed.Dug a hole about 4 feet before i hit natural ground. Most back yard pits like this are shallow and often theres only a few keepers.Lots of shards and few smaller bottles and the dig only took about an hour.Lots of pics for you and HH

tinpan

 

[Ifoundit69]

Re: William Bruse Brewery Bottles and more 1854-1894

Nice Bottles ,way to go !!!!

 

[seger98]

Nice bottle finds!

 

[root]

Great finds!!

Is the aqua sheared top ink pontiled? If so, I would continue the dig. Those cathedral peppersauces can bring in good $. I would research those.

HH,

root

 

[tinpan]

Great finds!!

Is the aqua sheared top ink pontiled? If so, I would continue the dig. Those cathedral peppersauces can bring in good $. I would research those.

HH,

root

thanks for the reply and yes the ink well is pontiled. have found few over the years and some are embossed

tinpan

 

[SHERMANVILLE ILLINOIS]

Tin,

very nice.

Thanks for posting.

Nothing like digging bottles.

have a good un......
SHERMANVILLE

 

[tymcmurray]

You must have quite a collection of nice bottles!

 

[tinpan]

You must have quite a collection of nice bottles!

i have a few but i keep only the non chipped and non cracked,Still yet too find a really rare one tho Mostly common age between 1840 -1910

tinpan

 

[Bavaria Mike]

Great looking historical bottles TP, must have been tough digging them intact considering the ground conditions and rocks! How do you find the old trash pits? I should have 3 times as many here and have never found one. The fields are where most trash ended up but there should be some trash pits. They had garbage service in the mid 1800s here but most of the trash collected ended up getting dumped on the fields away from town. Nice pics and HH, Mike

 

[BuckleBoy]

Those slender, tall bottles are Gorgeous pieces of glass!

The inkwell alone is a Stellar Find. Keep up the good work, my friend.

 

[Deno]

Those are beautiful. Congratulations.

 

[Yarrum]

Congrats on some more great finds, you'll need a whole room to store them all soon
HH

 

[allen]

way to go on those nice bottles Tinpan...

 

[Harry_Morant]

Great bottles Tinpan - Well done!

 

[slak jak]

hey tinpan , congrats on your research & digging .
you sure are digging up a lot of our history in more ways than one .
great looking bottles look forward to further digs .
h h slak jak.

 

[Woodland Detectors]

Oh, thats very neat indeed! Thank you for the history too! well done...mike

 

[AmericanCoinHunting]

N I C E.......................Bottle digs..............Gotta Love UM

 

[DigginThePast]

Wow, you've got an excellent site to dig. Great finds!

 

[crazyjarhead]

Those are some cool bottles. Love them TinP

 

[tinpan]

hi all thanks for the replies,i,m kind of busy with a new site and will post in a week

tinpan