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Amazing find! - 2/4/2005 10:50:23 PM    Jarhead   Posts: 15 Joined: 2/4/2005 Status: offline Hi to all, I met with an old friend today that owned an excavating business since the fifties. I did a little bartering with hima and came home with an amazing collection of bottles. One was a cream bottle with a wide mouth. I cleaned it and drank my dinner milk out of it. Milk never tasted so good since the milkman delivered it 35 years ago or so to our door and I drank the cream right out of top. That was heaven. There are some bottle here that I am a little shocked in seeing. I almost do not know what to think. Any ideas? Jarhead Post #: 1

RE: Amazing find! - 2/4/2005 11:00:42 PM    Maine Digger   Posts: 823 Joined: 2/4/2004 From: Augusta, Maine Status: offline Hi Jarhead, welcome to the forum. You've come to the right place to learn about your bottles. Take some time to look through the different threads; you might discover some pictures, descriptions, and conversations about bottles that you may already have. You'll also see that we're very formal here, take a secret oath to join and have to pay monthly dues......nah, we're just a bunch of bottle nuts, make that people nuts about bottles. If you can, post some pictures, or give us some descriptions, we're all here to share and learn. Welcome again. _____________________________ Norm Miller (in reply to Jarhead) Post #: 2

RE: Amazing find! - 2/4/2005 11:04:16 PM    Jarhead   Posts: 15 Joined: 2/4/2005 Status: offline Thanks Norm, I'll go get the camera (in reply to Jarhead) Post #: 3

RE: Amazing find! - 2/4/2005 11:16:48 PM    Jarhead   Posts: 15 Joined: 2/4/2005 Status: offline Oh yeah, how do I attach the pictures? (in reply to Jarhead) Post #: 4

RE: Amazing find! - 2/4/2005 11:40:30 PM    Maine Digger   Posts: 823 Joined: 2/4/2004 From: Augusta, Maine Status: offline Go to the menus top of the forum page and click on the help and follow instructions on how to upload a picture. Pay particular attention to sizing, crop as much of the background as possible, or gasp! You'll hear from ROGER or CHRIS!!!!! _____________________________ Norm Miller (in reply to Jarhead) Post #: 5

RE: Amazing find! - 2/4/2005 11:42:23 PM    Jarhead   Posts: 15 Joined: 2/4/2005 Status: offline Thanks again Norm, How much later will folks be up on the forum tonight? (in reply to Jarhead) Post #: 6

RE: Amazing find! - 2/4/2005 11:53:24 PM    Maine Digger   Posts: 823 Joined: 2/4/2004 From: Augusta, Maine Status: offline You're in for a pleasant suprise Jarhead! Our members here harken from the 4 corners of the Earth! The Forum resides in England, Thanks to Roger, we've moderators in OZ, (Australia) - terrible flesh eating people!! stuffy New Englanders ahem, Southern Aristocrats, Mid Atlantic Buttle Junkies, South Western dust diggers, (they don't have real soil down there), California Bottle Dreamers, North Western Hostettler Hunters, Let's see, Mid-western Milk Bottle Hounds, Canadian Royal - Mounted Dump Diggers and on and on and on...... So there's likely to be someone on 24 hrs! Opps, forgot about the New Yorkers - they just try to keep up with the New Englanders < Message edited by Maine Digger -- 2/4/2005 11:55:10 PM > _____________________________ Norm Miller (in reply to Jarhead) Post #: 7

RE: Amazing find! - 2/5/2005 1:49:55 AM    Jarhead   Posts: 15 Joined: 2/4/2005 Status: offline Norm, The pictures are taken and on the computer. Only there are 13 of them! If it is not ok to post pictures uncropped then I think that 13 pics would probably go over like a lead balloon. I tried to crop them in Paint but they go off of the screen so that I cannot crop them without losing some of the pic. Can I email them to members who wish to see them? Jarhead (in reply to Jarhead) Post #: 8

RE: Amazing find! - 2/5/2005 1:54:12 AM    drjhostetters   Posts: 162 Joined: 3/2/2004 Status: offline Hey Norm...you forgot about us Baker Cityites who collect 3-in-1 bottles and green soda bottles that traveled all the way across the U.S. Welcome to the forum Jarhead...I can't help but wonder what 35 year old milk tasted like though?...I just posted a reply on "What is it? After 1900" about milk bottles...do I see a trend here? Keep on barterin'.... The Doc... _____________________________ The Doctor...Dr. J (in reply to Maine Digger) Post #: 9

RE: Amazing find! - 2/5/2005 2:33:26 AM    Jarhead   Posts: 15 Joined: 2/4/2005 Status: offline Well, Here they are Picture reduced in size - please see Help - Using the Forum ---> Uploading a Picture - Admin Attachment (1) < Message edited by Admin -- 2/5/2005 11:55:08 AM > (in reply to Jarhead) Post #: 10

RE: Amazing find! - 2/5/2005 10:03:45 AM    Maine Digger   Posts: 823 Joined: 2/4/2004 From: Augusta, Maine Status: offline That's the start to a nice bottle addiction, er, Collection! That crush is in fine shape, I guessing I see a Hoods Sarsparilla, Mrs. Winslows Soothing Syrup(?), Spavin cure for human flesh(?), 3 in 1 oil, The reliable Old-Time Preparation by Dr Peter Fahrney & Sons, a nice chemical with stopper, Palmer's something Wire ?. Now what you can do is post one or two at a time a little larger. Do you reside in the Northeast? _____________________________ Norm Miller (in reply to Jarhead) Post #: 11

RE: Amazing find! - 2/5/2005 11:32:07 AM    Jarhead   Posts: 15 Joined: 2/4/2005 Status: offline Great! I want to sell some. What are they worth? How about this one Attachment (1) (in reply to Jarhead) Post #: 12

RE: Amazing find! - 2/5/2005 11:34:06 AM    Jarhead   Posts: 15 Joined: 2/4/2005 Status: offline Oops! Try that again. Now you know why they call me Jarhead Attachment (1) (in reply to Jarhead) Post #: 13

RE: Amazing find! - 2/5/2005 11:40:08 AM    Maine Digger   Posts: 823 Joined: 2/4/2004 From: Augusta, Maine Status: offline Jarhead, what's the dimensions on that Smith's? It looks like it says "Imitation" under Vanilla Flavoring, and price is $1.00? Also can you make out the mfg's address? I wonder how long they've been making imitation flavorings? _____________________________ Norm Miller (in reply to Jarhead) Post #: 14

RE: Amazing find! - 2/5/2005 11:55:32 AM    Jarhead   Posts: 15 Joined: 2/4/2005 Status: offline Norm, The dimensions are 7 and 1/2 tall and 2 and 5/16 in diameter. It does say imitation, The price $1.00 Bottle by Western buyers Assn. Aberdeen Washington. I wonder as well how long they have been making imitation flavorings. Jarhead (in reply to Jarhead) Post #: 15

RE: Amazing find! - 2/5/2005 12:04:13 PM    Maine Digger   Posts: 823 Joined: 2/4/2004 From: Augusta, Maine Status: offline Wow! That's a lot of Vanilla! I'm guessing 'Western Buyers Association' was/is a bulk supplier to bakeries or grocery stores? Kind of like today's 'Associated Grocers' - AG, or Sisco? That's up near DocjHostetter's neck of the woods, I'll bet he'd 'dig up' some information. < Message edited by Maine Digger -- 2/5/2005 12:05:20 PM > _____________________________ Norm Miller (in reply to Jarhead) Post #: 16

RE: Amazing find! - 2/5/2005 12:37:53 PM    Jarhead   Posts: 15 Joined: 2/4/2005 Status: offline That'd be great! Since I cannot find anything on it. How about this one? The dimensions are 13 3/4 tall by 5 1/4 diameter Attachment (1) (in reply to Jarhead) Post #: 17

RE: Amazing find! - 2/5/2005 12:43:45 PM    Maine Digger   Posts: 823 Joined: 2/4/2004 From: Augusta, Maine Status: offline That's a nice looking chemists bottle, not sure if the stopper is original to it though; I would expect it to sit lower in the neck, especially with the really dangerous nasty stuff (sulpheric acid)it held. By the way, you really got the hang of posting pics here on the forum, nice job. _____________________________ Norm Miller (in reply to Jarhead) Post #: 18

RE: Amazing find! - 2/5/2005 12:54:20 PM    Jarhead   Posts: 15 Joined: 2/4/2005 Status: offline I wondered about that stopper too. It is blue/green while the bottle is clear. It looks like the liquid inside is water seepage with a little chemical residue. I suspect the stopper if changed then was done so prior to being buried. Any idea as to the value? I'm hoping to strike it rich That's alot of the fun for me with this old stuff. You never know when your gonna get the bottle worth $$$ Jarhead (in reply to Jarhead) Post #: 19

RE: Amazing find! - 2/5/2005 1:14:45 PM    Maine Digger   Posts: 823 Joined: 2/4/2004 From: Augusta, Maine Status: offline Ah, well er, I don't want to throw dirt (we hate water at our dig sites) on your dreams of riches, but the truly valuable bottles are getting hard to get, unless you have the cash or luck of finding an untouched site. But a lot of us aren't in it for the money, it's the thrill of the hunt, the estacy of the discovery, the heartbreak of cyriosis,(sp) opps, got carried away. < Message edited by Maine Digger -- 2/5/2005 1:15:30 PM > _____________________________ Norm Miller (in reply to Jarhead) Post #: 20

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