My Other Hobby. *DUW*

[Aric]

This is one of my other hobbies, very addicting once you start and pretty fun.

Antique Bottle digging. Ive had a couple people ask me about them so here are some of the bottles ive dug.


Broken $100-250 bottle

[Reptile_Man]

My brother had a collection pretty similar, including flasks from world war 2.untill sombody broke them.dented the flask and hit it in a ditch.i found it again about 10 years ago.it all would have been worth a fortune now but cause someboidy broke them he hasnt got any of them left(i didnt break them by d way)

[Sausage]

Very cool! I had an uncle who collected glass coke bottles from across the US back in the 60s-70s.

So where do you find antique bottles? Ebay?
Anyway, nice collection!

[thehoofbite]

A while back there was some big work done to one of the local parks. They were actually improving the jogging, walkig path that was going under some of the main streets.

Anyway they had very good sized holes in the ground a few long trenches probably 5 feet deep.

Went with some bottle collectors who were telling me that many times parks are just covered up garbage dumps and sure enough, in the dirt there were pieces of glass everywhere and there were just tons of intact bottles.

Was actually a really fun experience even though we had to keep it on the hush hush.

[Aric]

So where do you find antique bottles? Ebay?
Anyway, nice collection!

You can find them on Ebay, ive never bought from there though. I find most of mine in old dumps and old outhouses. Im digging at my grandparents right now, their house is from the late 30's and there is an old dump where to original homeowner would dispose of their stuff. Crazy thing is the original owner was a school teacher, theres LOTS of old whisky bottles down there.

[Aric]

My brother had a collection pretty similar, including flasks from world war 2.untill sombody broke them.dented the flask and hit it in a ditch.i found it again about 10 years ago.it all would have been worth a fortune now but cause someboidy broke them he hasnt got any of them left(i didnt break them by d way)

Yeah too bad you dont have them now, old flasks usually sell pretty good. In the second to last pic is a flask my mom found in the basement of our old house, Coffin Flask from around 1880-1910.

[Laooda]

WOW! I love the Blue ones... that JD is really neat too!

[Aric]

WOW! I love the Blue ones... that JD is really neat too!

Thanks, the first set of blue ones (3) are old Milk Of Magnesia bottles.
The second blue one is a McKesson and Robbins poison bottle.

[coldbloodaddict]

Is the Ball Mason jar a 13?

[Aric]

Is the Ball Mason jar a 13?

Nope, havnt found one of those yet.