Old Bottles

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I confess to being a bit of a bottle hunter...we get some good ones here due to Bermuda being so old and marshes having been used as middens and trash dumps for years and years, so when they are restored it's bottle hunter heaven!

I was packing some of my collection to go 'down under' I have two nice pointy end ones, and three nice case gin bottles, one of which I found while snorkelling as well as a bunch of blown bottles and little medicine ones and inkwells.

I don't know all the details of bottles, I just like how they look and the thrill of finding an old one intact!

BTW, I have two full bottles of three in one oil, with corks intact and wax over them, Three in One stopped making bottles in 1901...cool eh, 100 yr old oil!
 
I can just see it now...

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If you have THAT many of one kind of bottle, they are not woth having!!!:D
 
Orange Park, FL River Rat!

Used to walk along the sandbars on the St. John's River down the street from the folks house. More looking for anything that washed up, but there was some nice glass to be found where old shipping docks of the past were no longer to be found.
 
A few guys here might be willing to send you their old bottle glasses when the prescription is no longer strong enough.


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I can't compete with your 1901 oil, but I did drink a bottle of 1889 vintage wine in 1989.
That is the oldest stuff I've ever had.
Don't remember much about the bottle though, If I'd known you back then I would have send it to you ( after emtying it:))

Nice pointy end ones??
Pictures, please.
 
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You'll have to wait for pictures, they are in a box, ready to be packed in a container, to go on a ship to the other side of the planet, give it a couple months and I'll resurrect this thread!

The pointy end ones are fairly old, they are not marble neck ones, just cork mouth, I often wonder why they made them like that, surely it would have been intuitive to put a flat bottom on them so they'd stand on their own!?

I have discovered a couple of bottle collecting forums, not quite as fascinating as a tree people forum, but not bad...
 
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No, no blue ones, violet, pale green, black and very dark green...the blue ones are pretty though but hard to find, at least hunting in old dumps. Buying them seems a bit of a cop out to me!
 
You mean like the guys who drop twenty grand to have an old Harley built up, buy a leather jacket, and then they are instant outlaws?
 
heres part of my bottle collection. not old, but very utilitarian. i grew up on an old farm with a few middens in various gulleys. unfortunately, as a kid i was more interested in breaking bottles than saving them. i do still have a few milk of magnesia bottles and a green benedictine. you cant see it in the pic but there are a few old milk bottles in the shower wall. glen ellen gone wild 159.jpg
 
Is that an outdoor shower, Jaime? Outdoor showers rawk!

I had a gulley behind my cabin in the Santa Cruz mountains, with an old Italian guy living above. His wine bottles would frequently wash down, but generally they were gallon or half-gallon jugs. He invited me up to his place for Thanksgiving dinner, so I may have contributed to the littering.
 
it is an outdoor shower. i built it at my moms house some ears ago. if i had my way i would shower outdoors always (of course it doesn't snow here).
 
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Wicked Porkbrick! I like how the necks are towel holders.
Gotta like a sunwarmed hose in the backyard after swimming!
Probably the only old bottle I would buy would be a round bottom marble bottle maufactured in Bermuda...there are some around, difficult to find 'in the wild' as back in the day kids would break the necks to get the marbles. There is a spot on the shore in Somerset where snorkelling will turn up some good bits of marble bottles, the whole ones have been picked already.
My best find is an intact case gin bottle, they are dark green, square and tapered, designed to be packed in wooden cases and loaded on sailing ships for export, snorkel find, no gin in it though! They can go for $40-$60 each...
 
Here ya go :) DSCF4345ed.jpg

My uncle used to find stuff like this and in cobalt blue when he used to explore old goht towns and mining camps in the Sierra. He also collected barbed wire.
 
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