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found some old bottles..need help with id - 7/10/2008 11:33:00 AM    marcus118   Posts: 1 Joined: 7/10/2008 Status: offline hello.  my name is marcus and i am new to the forum.  i was referred here by a fellow metal detector.  i stumbled across a few bottles yesterday while out in the woods and was wondering if there is any value here or if they are recycling-bin bound.  thanks for the help! http://marc-mcdermott.com/IMG_3221.jpg Post #: 1

RE: found some old bottles..need help with id - 7/10/2008 1:46:55 PM    NCdigger5 Posts: 503 Joined: 2/9/2008 Status: offline All of them defintely need to go in the recycling bin, except maybe for the one on the left. _____________________________ Dump after dump, privy after privy, diggin up treasure one bottle at a time. Ryan (in reply to marcus118) Post #: 2

RE: found some old bottles..need help with id - 7/10/2008 2:03:26 PM    Jules   Posts: 191 Joined: 9/16/2003 From: NE Pennsylvania Status: offline Hi there Marcus, and welcome to the forum! Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but all those other than your Hudson Rock soda are probably bin-bound. Most anything with threads, screw on tops, and no embossing or debossing (raised or lowered lettering, circles, trademarks etc) are modern and common. However, there is some market for "vintage soda's" like your Hudson Rock, with the "painted on" labels. The only thing that gets tricky here, is that after being in the ground, moisture gets into the "paint".  You have to be really careful how you clean them, or when you clean them and/or let them dry out after being in the soil, the 'paint'/'label' comes right off. Since you probably didn't know that, I'm betting that bottle is dry already. Gently remove any dirt clumps. Use an old, soft brush, like an old toothbrush, to clean away any dirt around the paint. The inside you can clean with warm water, gentle soap, and a few BB's or marbles swirling around to knock the dirt into the water. Give 'er a few good shakes. Dump out, let dry. Again, try to keep the water inside the bottle or in the sink, not on the outside :) Definately not on the paint. Someone more into vintage sodas/milks than I am can likely give you hints about preserving the paint in case of future finds. Now, keep in mind, I don't know if this is a "good" soda or not, but I gave you a mini-lesson in case you come across others. I'm sure there are some other folks around here that can tell you if that is a "good" one. Lesson number two! Where were you? Is it an "older" area? Are there old homes/farmsteads nearby? If you just stumbled across the 1950's-1970's "top" of an old farm dump, you could still be in luck. Common sense tells us (along with many many digs of "proving) that the oldest stuff will be at the bottom. Farmers usually tossed what couldn't be burnt into a ravine or depression to build up the spot. (Think not-so-clean-fill). Bottles, pottery, ashes from the stove, hopefully not rocks picked from the cornfield, dirt, etc fill up the space. Leaving the new stuff on top. (your profile doesn't say where you're from, hard for me to guess if this could be an older dump) So, if that sounds like it could be the case where you were digging....as another member of this forum loves to quote... Dig Deeper! (also, feel free to check out another area on this site "Looking for digging partners". If you're near one of our more experienced diggers, and interested in learning about this bottle collecting hobby (I love metal detecting too) you're more than likely to find someone interested/willing to help teach/dig with you.) This has been your long-winded-educational-more-than-you-probably-wanted-to-know welcome post of the day, brought to you by the makers of far too much coffee and a slow day at work... Best, -Julie (in reply to marcus118) Post #: 3

RE: found some old bottles..need help with id - 7/11/2008 7:16:38 AM    logueb   Posts: 1380 Joined: 1/6/2007 Status: offline Welcome to the Forum Marcus. And yep, everything except the Hudson Rock is headed for the recycle bin. I'd say 1940-1960's bottles. Trying to guess what these bottles were used for without the paper labels is almost impossible, but here's a guess.  Starting from the left, Soda, bleach, catsup, medicine/chemical, medicine, food (probably spice, etc.).  _____________________________ Buster Bottle Bug Bit with no cure in sight. (in reply to Jules) Post #: 4

RE: found some old bottles..need help with id - 7/11/2008 7:44:11 PM    glass man Posts: 1013 Joined: 1/30/2008 From: GEORGIA Status: offline WELCOME MARCUS,KEEP LOOKING AND YOU TOO WILL BE ADDICTED TO THIS GREAT HOBBY. Whan I 1st started I had a lot of bottles just like you have basically and was proud of them.As I learned more I got older bottles and it is a progressive diasease,now I am trying to get aold bottle from every catogory I can .MOST ALL BOTTLE COLLECTORS START THIS WAY!  BOTH of my collections were started with bottles of no worth but to me. I got to collect bottles to heck with what it is worth if I like it I keep it! MY ist wife stayed on my back until I sold them and then SHE LEFT ANYWAY. MY 2nd wife is one in a million but when I started dragging junky looking bottles in she did not say a word,but I could tell she thought they were ugly. THAT ALL CHANGED WHEN I FINALLY GOT $55 and bought a cobalt qt.carters cathdreal master ink. I have had to sell a lot of bottles from time to time ,but she would not hear of selling the carters. GO find a bottle book or look through one at a book store. IF it has some colored bottle pictures you will see how beautiful they can be!With your metal detector you may find a old dump as people threw away metel objects along with bottles. Find a old house place and check it out.ANY WAY I AM TRYING HARD TO GET YOU TO JOIN OUR RANKS1GOD BLESS _____________________________ Stand there's a midget standing tall and a giant beside him about to fall. Stand ..they will try to make you crawl and they know what you're saying makes sense and all.Stand don't you know you are free, Well at least in your mind if you wan to be. SLY (in reply to logueb) Post #: 5

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