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What was that first bottle you found that got you hooked? - 1/28/2007 1:03:19 PM    adshepard   Posts: 214 Joined: 8/11/2004 Status: online So what was the first bottle you found that got you hooked?  Mine was this nice Dr. Manly Hardy's - Jaundice Bitters - Bangor, ME that I pulled from the waters of Eastport, Maine.  Haven't found something as good since but I've been plenty happy with what I have found. Alan     Attachment (1) Post #: 1

RE: What was that first bottle you found that got you h... - 1/28/2007 1:53:57 PM    Jim Posts: 2492 Joined: 7/5/2005 From: Lewistown, PA Status: online Mine was a common small-size clear Vapo-Cresolene poison. It was lying right on the ground along the river. I was 11 years old. To this day, it's worth maybe $5 on a good day, but it got me hooked! I still have it. When I find those things today, I often give them away, but that first one will always be special. ~Jim _____________________________ Preserving our buried history, one pit at a time. http://www.freewebs.com/lewistownbottles/index.htm (in reply to adshepard) Post #: 2

RE: What was that first bottle you found that got you h... - 1/28/2007 2:06:52 PM    wvhillbilly   Posts: 488 Joined: 5/21/2006 From: West Virginia Status: offline Mine was an old Schmulbach Brewing Co bottle I found in the yard, I had found some ACLs before that but they never quite hooked me. _____________________________ Check out my bottles for sale! http://www.freewebs.com/dennpbottles/ (in reply to Jim) Post #: 3

RE: What was that first bottle you found that got you h... - 1/28/2007 3:01:46 PM    bearswede Posts: 2912 Joined: 9/28/2004 From: western mass Status: offline The bottles that stand out from my diggin days (back in the early '70's), are: Bogles Hyperion Fluid For The Hair Cardinal inks C.A Richards (unlabled bitters) Congress & Empire Spring (Saratoga M.W.) Ron _____________________________ "I LOVE Wolfies!!!!!!!!!!!!" (in reply to wvhillbilly) Post #: 4

RE: What was that first bottle you found that got you h... - 1/28/2007 4:09:23 PM    tiqhuntr Posts: 37 Joined: 1/22/2007 From: Loogootee, Indiana Status: offline Hey Bear;  We must be close to the same age. My "hook" was in '68. I was helping my father paint his house, 15th of August. I had killed 4 squirrels that morning and told him I wanted to run out to the edge of town and complete my limit of 5 and be back to help. There was a huge hickory in the front of the woods that always had squirrels in it so that is where I headed. One was cutting on a nut and as I was backing around looking up I heard a crunch that sounded like glass. I glanced down and there was this blue bottle. After getting the squirrel I decided to take the bottle and see if he would like it. It was a strong cobalt open pontil with ground glass stopper. There was some others so I added them to the game bag and headed home. Dad was 15 foot up the ladder painting the eave when I sad "Dad check out this old bottle I just found". He came down the ladder faster than any squirrel I have ever seen unassing a tree. Painting was over and we went to the site and dug it out that day. I am hooked for life. Don't dig much any more, but since I have found this site I am getting the bug again. _____________________________ A bad day diggin' is better than *** (in reply to bearswede) Post #: 5

RE: What was that first bottle you found that got you h... - 1/28/2007 7:06:13 PM    capsoda Posts: 8084 Joined: 11/15/2005 From: Seminole,Alabama, USA Status: offline Back in 67 or 68 I found an amber chemical bottle and a Real McCoy oiler cup. Shortly after a dam broke on a lake near by and revealed bottles from one end to the other from 1930s back to the early 1800s. _____________________________ Warren Diggin down in Dixie, USA Work is for people who don't dig bottles President, Panhandle Cruisers http://www.panhandlecruisers.org/ (in reply to tiqhuntr) Post #: 6

RE: What was that first bottle you found that got you h... - 1/28/2007 7:59:22 PM    bottlenutboy Posts: 2137 Joined: 10/10/2006 From: Bordensprings, Ala. or Esom Hill, Ga. Status: offline the ones that got me werent mine and were found in the 70's they were my uncles he brought some to my house for some reason or other and i just fell in love they are mostly commons he had about 250 then and now he has more than that that was in 2005 so im still a "newbie" i guess but i know more than the average bear because in all that time i have dedicated my whole life to research and trying to find more i have learned a very huge portion of what is known about crown soda's which is where my real passion lies although i do collect other things that i find interesting _____________________________ bottles for sale on my website! go check it out! http://www.geocities.com/cleburneslim/index.html?1170417418125 also check out the same bottles on my freewebs site!: http://www.freewebs.com/bottlenutboy/forsale.htm Spencer (in reply to capsoda) Post #: 7

RE: What was that first bottle you found that got you h... - 1/28/2007 8:36:55 PM    madman   Posts: 4960 Joined: 2/5/2005 Status: offline ithink it was a fletchers castoria and a sauders extract sticking straight up out of the ground mike (in reply to bottlenutboy) Post #: 8

RE: What was that first bottle you found that got you h... - 1/28/2007 8:38:44 PM    Road Dog   Posts: 850 Joined: 6/9/2005 Status: offline Back in 1972 dug a SS Coca Cola Elizabeth City N.C. (in reply to madman) Post #: 9

RE: What was that first bottle you found that got you h... - 1/28/2007 10:18:38 PM    bottlenutboy Posts: 2137 Joined: 10/10/2006 From: Bordensprings, Ala. or Esom Hill, Ga. Status: offline the first "good" bottle that i personally dug was a fletcher's castoria ca. 1890s in a TOC dump where everything was busted _____________________________ bottles for sale on my website! go check it out! http://www.geocities.com/cleburneslim/index.html?1170417418125 also check out the same bottles on my freewebs site!: http://www.freewebs.com/bottlenutboy/forsale.htm Spencer (in reply to Road Dog) Post #: 10

RE: What was that first bottle you found that got you h... - 1/28/2007 10:52:10 PM    whiskeyman Posts: 2034 Joined: 4/17/2005 From: NE TENN-SW VA Status: offline The one that got me "interested" I found while seeking out a cave to explore. It was a Paul Jones, FedLawForbids flask...with the fellow in the Tri-corner hat...ships,etc. The one that "hooked me" was an amber BIM St.Andrews Wine of Life Root...a local bottle for me. _____________________________ * Member: Bristol Historical Assoc...and, Friends of Steeles Creek Nature Center & Park President: Bristol Tenn-Va Bottle Club Author of: Spirits & Medicinal Bottles of Bristol,TN-VA. My WebSite: www.bristol-tenn-va-bottles.com (in reply to bottlenutboy) Post #: 11

RE: What was that first bottle you found that got you h... - 1/28/2007 11:56:16 PM    BRIAN S.   Posts: 1472 Joined: 5/27/2003 From: The Mountains of Tennessee Status: online Well for me ..... It was a 3 piece mold , sun colored amythest , unembossed Whiskey . That I found while looking over some small islands in Tampa Bay. But I was always around bottles ..... as my Grandfather had been collecting even before I was born. So really I guess I should thank my Grandfather for the Bottle Bug !!! _____________________________ 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 whiskeyman) Post #: 12

RE: What was that first bottle you found that got you h... - 1/29/2007 12:37:05 AM    southern Maine diver Posts: 1483 Joined: 8/13/2005 From: South Berwick, Maine USA Status: offline Hey Alan... Mine was a pink coraline algae encrusted 1/2 pint Stoddard "Double Eagle" from 22' of water in Kittery, Maine It got me more than hooked... I then became obsessed and I still am Wayne (in reply to BRIAN S.) Post #: 13

RE: What was that first bottle you found that got you h... - 1/29/2007 11:47:58 AM    zanes_antiques Posts: 2031 Joined: 9/3/2006 From: Steubenville, Ohio Status: offline    For me it wasn't just one bottle but a whole collection of milks. I stopped at a yard sale one day and they had over 500 milks set up all at $10 each. I knew some milks brought good money so I asked if they'd sell the whole collection for one money. I ended up paying about $3 each for around 2000 bottles. Once I got the bug though it spread to all other types of bottles and then digging. Thank goodness for that yard sale! _____________________________ I buy, sell, barter, and beg....Zane (in reply to southern Maine diver) Post #: 14

RE: What was that first bottle you found that got you h... - 1/29/2007 1:30:51 PM    unclenutsy   Posts: 5 Joined: 7/7/2006 Status: offline Unfortunately this was mine Attachment (1) (in reply to zanes_antiques) Post #: 15

RE: What was that first bottle you found that got you h... - 1/29/2007 9:31:01 PM    zanes_antiques Posts: 2031 Joined: 9/3/2006 From: Steubenville, Ohio Status: offline Now that's funny! _____________________________ I buy, sell, barter, and beg....Zane (in reply to unclenutsy) Post #: 16

RE: What was that first bottle you found that got you h... - 1/29/2007 10:16:56 PM    Precious Little   Posts: 20 Joined: 1/19/2006 Status: offline My 6" brown BIMAL Cabot's Sulpho-Napthol, dug on the family homestead in Maine, 1972. I was 9, I think. My brother, sister, and I were hunting frogs or digging clay or something, and I happened to see this strange, rectangular brown bottle base in the streambed. Half an hour of excavation later, I had my first bottle and the bug. Happy to report I still have both. (in reply to adshepard) Post #: 17

RE: What was that first bottle you found that got you h... - 1/29/2007 11:42:01 PM    kawdog   Posts: 192 Joined: 10/22/2003 From: Ruston Louisiana Status: offline I was walking through the woods when I was a teenager and found an ACL RC cola, not very old and not worth anything but it was a beautiful bottle to me, since then I have looked everywhere I can for old bottles. Thanks for reminding me how all this started. kaw (in reply to Precious Little) Post #: 18

RE: What was that first bottle you found that got you h... - 1/30/2007 12:34:50 AM    lexdigger   Posts: 929 Joined: 5/31/2005 From: Lexington, Ky. Status: offline When I first got interested in collecting antique bottles I had found alot of newer stuff exposed on a construction site. I brought alot of it home and began to research to only find out that it was "junk" newer stuff. After a little more research I began to discover the world of privy diggers and bottle collectors. I was is awe of all the early glass they were digging. I made it a goal to try and find a place to dig bottles like that (toc and earlier). It took me about a year, but I finally found a dump with bottles sticking out of the ground. I didn't have a probe and had never dug, so I surface hunted it for many weeks finding marbles, stoppers, and small unembossed bottles laying around after a rain. I asked the property owner for permission to dig the site and was given the go ahead. On my first dig ever I created what would be equivalent to a test hole now. I only dug two keepers that day, but I was so happy to finally see some old bottles in my hands. The first keeper of the day was a nice little Turlingtons Balsom of Life. I also dug a Dr. Otto's Spruce gum Balsam along with several unembossed druggists and meds. I spent about six months digging in that dump. It ran about two blocks and went about 15 feet deep. There's a warehouse sitting on top of it now. I've dug thousands of bottles since then, some good and alot of junk, but to this day that first little med is still one of my favorites. I've only been digging for three years but have dug in many dumps, privies, and cisterns. I've also got a couple of friends hooked as well. I've been very lucky and had alot of fun! Chris Attachment (1) < Message edited by lexdigger -- 1/30/2007 12:37:58 AM > (in reply to kawdog) Post #: 19

RE: What was that first bottle you found that got you h... - 1/30/2007 5:56:10 AM    CrewelaDeVil   Posts: 309 Joined: 8/31/2005 From: New England Status: offline Mine was an aqua strap sided flask-no embossing.  My mother and I found a victorian age dump for our town while hiking.  We dug it and got a lot of cool bottles out of there-nothing spectacular but we liked them. Then 5 years back I bought a farm and found the dump. My fave is a little bottle with a horse head embossed (screw-top) and the flasks and inks and meds lol  Mine are all packed away at the moment  (moving). Can't wait to open those boxes. I will post some pics when I do. (in reply to lexdigger) Post #: 20

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