Old bottles

[bone2stone]

I have collected bottles since I was a little boy and brought home an embossed "Whiskey Bottle" I found while arrowhead finding.
My collection grew so much my wife said enough is enough.
Now I only bring home the ones that I know have a value higher than a couple of bucks. I keep the small ones too. Some so small I just can't figue out what they could have had in them.
Here are a few that I have a pic of on my work computer.

Bone2stone

[tomclark]

Man, love that slipper and figure bottle!!! Awesome stuff!
I found a small heart bottle just like yours, too.

[bone2stone]

Dude, I got nothing on some of yours. That pistol WOW! I don't have one of those. Got a piece of one is the best I have come out with.

That sweet potato is something else, and that Bennington is a MONSTER!
Me gottie lots of the small Coke bottles too.

Bone2stone

[tomclark]

I found six of those little cokes in one spot, found out later they came in a small wooden crate that came with a Coke truck toy. I was cleaning them out and put so much force into one that it came apart and shattered, forcing a shard of glass into the palm of my hand. It liked to never heal.... still in there, couldn't get it out with home surgery techniques, LOL. The gun had candy in it when "new" I wonder if your figure and maybe the shoe were also candy containers. I have two different glass tanks that also held candy and a broken boat.

A tip for bottle diggers to prevent "itchy adze syndrome" and possibly prevent contamination from nasty chemicals: Get a sheet of thick rubber and use it as a mat to sit on. You can use a large truck tire split open, too. They don't tear like plastic.
And don't try to dig out a bottle with your finger, hahahaha! I can't count hoiw many times I've cut my finger... I use the mat also everytime I dig artifacts, especially in wettish spots. Nothing like that particular feeling you get on the ride home with itchy butt. I always bring an extra set of dry clothes anyway...

We used to have a lot of sites that had great bottles but were under depth/sand pressure and packed together. When they came out they'd look fine but even on the ride home or on the next day, they start cracking and hazing bad.. Weird.... Bone tools will do the same, LOL.

[Cannonman17]

That is an excellent collection ou have there.

[atczero]

Those are some really cool bottles. Here is a pic of my bottles from over the years.

[tomclark]

Real nice!~ You are the Hutchinson King!! Love that handled jug and that wide lipped ginger beer?, that is unusual.

Hey guys, I pick up all broken pieces from some older discreet sites! Got a boxful from a site that saw "limited" Spanish, 1st and 2nd Seminole Indian Wars, Civil War to Present time periods. LOL, I'll pick up anything older than myself when not on state lands. Anything, any bottle, marble, point, button or shoe older than 50 years old cannot be legally collected on state lands or underwater state lands in FL.

I've found some of my best dumps at the back of the oldest lots in town and any other town. Biggest ones have been early city dump and an old hospital dump. (Ewww!@)

[lillyput]

Ya'll have grand collections and thank you so much for the hints. Mine never come as clean as these you have shown.

[Atlantis0077]

Afternoon,

Love the old bottles....here is a pic of a few of mine. Several of those are the New Orleans blob top bottles. Have the company name and addresses embossed in the glass.

Atlantis

[Rick Hicks]

Those are cool. The shoe bottle is awesome. If you ever want to part with the poison bottle, let me know. I have his big brothers!