Any one know how to age or whatever glass bottles, I picked one up out the creek while scouting yesterday thought it was pretty neat. I can post pictures later of the bottle to see if any one has any idea!
Glass bottles
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Maybe google them or find similar on eBay? Those old glass bottles are cool. There is a place I hunt that people use to dump trash a long time ago. There are several old glass 2 liter bottles etc. always thought is was neat.
Biggun4214
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Post pictures, I have a friend that collects old bottles. He had a vinegar bottle that he bought for $.50 and sold for $1000.
I filled it up with rocks from turkeys and put a cork in the top but that's what the bottle looks like and the info on the bottom is hard to see it now with the rocks in it. Also found this other bottle too attached below. It says 65 with a line under it
69 1858 4
LIQUOR BOTTLE
85 0 1
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I was hunting in CNF one time not far off the side of a trail when two ol boys started coming up the trail carrying shovels and five gallon buckets. Made me feel little uneasy cause I couldn't figure out what they were up to. Of course they spotted me wearing orange and made a bee line straight towards me. They were really cool and started asking if I knew where any old home places were at (which I did) and that's what they were doing was looking for old bottles. To hear them tell it, they made pretty good money at it.
Very interesting
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Back many years ago...when my brother was married to his first wife...they lived in a large, very old house, on the river. There was a train trestle crossing the river almost in their back yard. On the opposite side of river, there was/is a civil war fort.
After a lot of research, they found pics of the house in civil war books. It was used as a hospital during the war. They were always finding old medicine bottles in their yard... whenever digging around. Found a bunch of pretty cool stuff.
After a lot of research, they found pics of the house in civil war books. It was used as a hospital during the war. They were always finding old medicine bottles in their yard... whenever digging around. Found a bunch of pretty cool stuff.
That's awesome! I bet there's all kind of cool stuff in the ground around their house, My buddy found this during deer season not far from where I found the bottle
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Smo
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I know a Guy…..
These were found on his Family's farm.
It's been in their Family since the mid 1600's…
He remembered were the old trash pile was from years ago..
These were found on his Family's farm.
It's been in their Family since the mid 1600's…
He remembered were the old trash pile was from years ago..
Forvols
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Old glass is pretty cool.
I found a bunch of old clorox bottles about 20 years ago. They were listed on the internet for $3-$8. Apparently I tossed them out. They were nothing special to me. Some of the bottles pictured on this post I would certainly have kept. The blue glass is a great find if I remember what I read long ago.
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Bottle values seem to be directly related to demographics of where the plant is located versus the name brand. For instance a Birmingham Alabama coke bottle would not be appealing enough to drive the value up to say someone in Atlanta Georgia. The bottle would bring a higher price from the locale it was made in. There are some bottles that bring a higher premium like rat poison bottles demand a higher price anywhere and also the more decoratively embossed bottles but are mostly looked upon as art for their value.
GUNNERX2
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A great place to look for old glass is along the banks of lakes in the back end of coves. High water in the spring flushes out old farms and the glass collects in the back of coves where it has no other place to go. Years ago I found a 16 ounce (pint) liquor bottle that I used for a flask. The liquor industry changed from imperial to metric measurement in 1980.
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Depending on how serious of a bottle hunter or collector you want to be.... if you don't hunt the rivers and sloughs like gunner said the best place to look is at old home places where they dumped their trash which, (here's where the seriousness comes into play) is usually around old outhouses especially in the holes under them but a plus is they usually threw their trash on top of the of the other contents that lay beneath toward the bottom. This all happened because they needed hole filler when they got ready to move the outhouse. Another good old home site place to look is around a smokehouse or cellar or barn those generations back in the day were resourceful and didn't let ANYTHING go to waste.
