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NEWEST MEMBER - VERY EXCITED - 5/18/2005 1:55:37 PM    1VDKHQ   Posts: 10 Joined: 5/18/2005 From: NW YORK Status: offline I am a new member to this site and I just wanted to say this is definitely the most informative and interesting site I have found out there. I have become addicted with bottle collecting over the past year. I hope to figure out the picture uploading process and send some pictures of the bottles I have found. Keep up the good work, happy hunting. _____________________________ DIVERBOY - If it's too deep than your too old. Post #: 1

RE: NEWEST MEMBER - VERY EXCITED - 5/18/2005 2:08:06 PM    diggerjeff Posts: 555 Joined: 7/4/2004 From: central illinois Status: offline hi and welcome to the forum!!! yes! please post some pictures for us!!! cant wait to see what you have! _____________________________ diggerjeff I DIG, THEREFORE I AM. (in reply to 1VDKHQ) Post #: 2

RE: NEWEST MEMBER - VERY EXCITED - 5/18/2005 7:12:55 PM    BRIAN S.   Posts: 1471 Joined: 5/27/2003 From: The Mountains of Tennessee Status: offline Hi Kevin and welcome to the forum ! May I ask your age ? Just out of curiosity....I have heard several people claim that there are no new young people joining the Bottle Collecting hobby. So that's why I asked your age ..... 20+ , 30+ , 40+ , ect. Brian _____________________________ Tennessee Hillbilly Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most ! Always looking to buy or trade for Drake's Plantation Bitters and Drake's go-withs . And Tennessee Bottles and Jugs ! (in reply to 1VDKHQ) Post #: 3

RE: NEWEST MEMBER - VERY EXCITED - 5/18/2005 8:30:08 PM    Tony14 Posts: 2463 Joined: 2/15/2005 From: Fond du Lac, Wisconsin Status: offline I'm 15, so there are some people. (in reply to 1VDKHQ) Post #: 4

RE: NEWEST MEMBER - VERY EXCITED - 5/18/2005 10:02:28 PM    justarookie   Posts: 29 Joined: 4/28/2005 Status: offline im 22 so there are some youngins intrested thats for sure (in reply to 1VDKHQ) Post #: 5

RE: NEWEST MEMBER - VERY EXCITED - 5/18/2005 10:31:34 PM    RazorsEdge   Posts: 238 Joined: 5/8/2005 Status: offline 18 here (in reply to 1VDKHQ) Post #: 6

RE: NEWEST MEMBER - VERY EXCITED - 5/18/2005 11:55:41 PM    Ryan Posts: 86 Joined: 12/6/2003 Status: offline And I'm an old fogey at 26... (in reply to 1VDKHQ) Post #: 7

RE: NEWEST MEMBER - VERY EXCITED - 5/19/2005 6:21:02 AM    IRISH   Posts: 1238 Joined: 11/23/2002 From: cockatoo Australia Status: offline I'm 26 too, it's great to see younger people in the hobby, can't let the old fogeys have all the fun by themselves . PS, welcome to the forum 1VDKHQ . < Message edited by IRISH -- 5/19/2005 6:24:05 AM > (in reply to 1VDKHQ) Post #: 8

RE: NEWEST MEMBER - VERY EXCITED - 5/19/2005 7:50:42 AM    BRIAN S.   Posts: 1471 Joined: 5/27/2003 From: The Mountains of Tennessee Status: offline Great to see some young people in the hobby ! I was young when I started in the hobbya long time ago. I noticed at a lot of the Bottle Shows that I attend....not many young people. Just a lot of us old fogeys !!!! I was curious if there was any new blood entering the hobby . Brian _____________________________ Tennessee Hillbilly Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most ! Always looking to buy or trade for Drake's Plantation Bitters and Drake's go-withs . And Tennessee Bottles and Jugs ! (in reply to 1VDKHQ) Post #: 9

RE: NEWEST MEMBER - VERY EXCITED - 5/19/2005 9:21:31 AM    1VDKHQ   Posts: 10 Joined: 5/18/2005 From: NW YORK Status: offline Hello Again, I think I have figured out the upload process. My camera is not the greatest. I am 34 yrs old but have just been struck by the bottle bug about a year ago. I dive for the NY State Police and came across some old bottles while training up in the St Lawrence River last year. Since then everytime I'm under the water I am hoping to find something old. I've been some what successful too. I am curious about the history behind the bottles. It is pretty cool to think that someone made these and drank from these bottles over 100 years ago. This first bottle is three piece mold with an applied top and it is green glass. On the bottom it has the letters S B G. Just wondering if any one knows who made it and how old it may be. Hopefully the picture comes up. [image][/image] Attachment (1) (in reply to 1VDKHQ) Post #: 10

RE: NEWEST MEMBER - VERY EXCITED - 5/19/2005 9:22:28 AM    1VDKHQ   Posts: 10 Joined: 5/18/2005 From: NW YORK Status: offline Here is the bottom of the bottle. Attachment (1) (in reply to 1VDKHQ) Post #: 11

RE: NEWEST MEMBER - VERY EXCITED - 5/19/2005 9:53:01 AM    GuntherHess Posts: 5127 Joined: 12/13/2004 From: Frederick Maryland Status: offline S B G could be Streator Bottle & Glass Co. IL 1881-1905 normally they are marked S B & G Co though. < Message edited by GuntherHess -- 5/19/2005 9:53:59 AM > _____________________________ Looking for Frederick Maryland and Dr Fahrney Bottles 2008 Medicine Bottle Price Guide on CDROM http://www.mattsoldhouse.com/MC/bottles/BottleBook2008.htm email http://www.mattsoldhouse.com/MC/bottles/email.jpg (in reply to 1VDKHQ) Post #: 12

RE: NEWEST MEMBER - VERY EXCITED - 5/19/2005 10:58:56 AM    Jules   Posts: 191 Joined: 9/16/2003 From: NE Pennsylvania Status: offline Hello and Welcome to the forum! Can't wait to see some of your pics :) And in response to the other question, I'm both female and mid-thirties, so yes, it's not only "Older males" interested! I've bottle hunted here in Pennsylvania for quite a while now. Never tried diving though...hmmmmm! Best, ~Julie (in reply to 1VDKHQ) Post #: 13

RE: NEWEST MEMBER - VERY EXCITED - 5/20/2005 8:48:10 PM    diggermeister Posts: 149 Joined: 5/3/2005 From: North Carolina, USA Status: offline Hey All, I just wanted to say that I'm ONLY 47 and have been digging for about 6 months. If any of you Youngsters would like to come dig with me; I'll show you that an "old fogey" can really move some dirt. Just try to keep up !!! lol _____________________________ If I Wasn't Crazy; I'd Go Insane, GARY http://groups.yahoo.com/group/federal_law_forbids_bottles (in reply to 1VDKHQ) Post #: 14

RE: NEWEST MEMBER - VERY EXCITED - 5/21/2005 6:02:17 AM    bottlebank   Posts: 51 Joined: 5/14/2005 Status: offline can you try and rotate the images upright (in reply to 1VDKHQ) Post #: 15

RE: NEWEST MEMBER - VERY EXCITED - 5/21/2005 8:30:10 PM    Guyanaguy   Posts: 8 Joined: 9/1/2004 Status: offline Hi, I've seen a handful of these bottles brought up from the Demerara River in Guyana. I have one near identical to yours sitting on my desk now (in Georgetown, Guyana, South America--old British Colony and before that Dutch), except that it's the shorter version. It's a three piece mold bottle, but I think your mistaken on the letters SBG...I believe it says "S & G"... Definitely sometime in the middle to late 1800's I'm not certain where the bottle originates at this point... good luck!!! peace (in reply to 1VDKHQ) Post #: 16

RE: NEWEST MEMBER - VERY EXCITED - 5/22/2005 1:06:31 AM    Bottleman Posts: 851 Joined: 9/3/2004 From: Central Pennsylvania Status: offline I also just posted this story in another topic tonight about your first bottle and how you got started but age has a big factor in it too. I found my first bottle when I was 10 years which was a cobalt blue Triloids poison bottle. We were moving the old smoke house which was used for smoking raw meat in. I was digging around under the foundation for marbles and what ever old I could find when I pulled out the poison. A few weeks later I went to a local antique store with my mom and saw the exact same bottle with a price tag of $20.00 on it. I was just amazed that it was worth that much at the time! Yes, I still have that bottle too! After that I began walking around the farm fields looking for dumps and talking to my dad’s friends to see if they knew of any dumps. I was lucky enough to have one right across the street to go to. At that time I just walked around and picked bottles off the surface for my collection and had no idea that all the good ones were buried. By that time I was 12 and I had a friend in middle school that collected depression glass who I eventually got hooked into bottle collecting so I had a digging partner from the start that understood exactly the bottle collecting addiction. We both pretty much learned the hobby as we went together until at a flea market when we met another “experienced” digger who was in his 30’s and had been doing it his hole life. He showed us the ropes and got us digging 1870s privies when we were only 15. By the time I was 16 I got the nerve to knock on peoples doors and try to get there permission to dig there outhouses. I am 19 right now and this is the first time I have ever told my age on this site because I have been worried that older collectors will think that I am inexperienced and just getting started in this hobby. That is not the case at all though, I have dug at uncountless dumps and dug tons of privies including about four 1850s pontiled holes. At the moment I collect pontiled squat sodas from Philadelphia, PA and local milks. Also any other nice looking bottles I find. I hope you all liked my story and I will keep you posted on all of my recent digs that turn up to be really good. ~~Tom (Bottleman12) (in reply to 1VDKHQ) Post #: 17

RE: NEWEST MEMBER - VERY EXCITED - 5/22/2005 2:28:01 AM    RazorsEdge   Posts: 238 Joined: 5/8/2005 Status: offline I just started not long ago also....its the perfect hobby for me because i love finding junk....i always am fascinated about the history of stupid things Like the cars i find, and a boat i found in the river, embossed bricks bottles, etc....I always wonder, how did they get this way.....Imagine the feeling of the person who bought a brand new 1952 ford custom line as they drove it off the lot.....how did it turn from that to being upside down in a ditch with no engine and bullet holes? How those 100 year old paving bricks went from being a brand new road to having a single one of those bricks in the river buried on an island.....Don't you guys ever wonder about stuff like that? I know this may sound weird, but if I had one wish, I would wish i had the power to see the history of things....just touch that 52 ford and see what really did happen that made it end up there.....anyways, i guess im just weird (in reply to 1VDKHQ) Post #: 18

RE: NEWEST MEMBER - VERY EXCITED - 5/24/2005 10:55:14 AM    WhiteLighting Posts: 485 Joined: 1/21/2004 From: The Electric City,Upstate NY Status: offline Another mans junk is our treasure.....lol,.. Welcome the forum though 1VDKHQ or whatever your name is...lol,.. Lots of people from in all age brackets are diggers/Md'ers on this site,might even find afew diggers to meet up with in your area,but take and ask questions from these guys/gals on this board cause theres some dangerous spots around dumps/cellers/wells.... so good luck and be carful! _____________________________ It's time for another TEA PARTY!!!! (in reply to RazorsEdge) Post #: 19

RE: NEWEST MEMBER - VERY EXCITED - 5/24/2005 3:45:55 PM    1VDKHQ   Posts: 10 Joined: 5/18/2005 From: NW YORK Status: offline Thanks for the advise white lightning. I primarily find my bottles underwater since I am a scuba diver, so I don't have to many dump hazards to worry about. My name is Kevin, I didn't realize when I set up my account that 1vdkhq was going to be my screen name for the forum. (in reply to WhiteLighting) Post #: 20

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