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your oldest bottle - 4/16/2006 8:09:52 PM    marylandbottler   Posts: 17 Joined: 4/6/2006 From: baltimore Status: offline hey everyone its me again umm im just askin everyone wats your oldest bottle cause i dont really have many old bottles Post #: 1

RE: your oldest bottle - 4/16/2006 8:24:34 PM    IRISH   Posts: 1238 Joined: 11/23/2002 From: cockatoo Australia Status: offline Hi and welcome to the forum marylandbottler. My oldest bottles are a few black beers and a pickle from around the 1840's, we don't really get much before the 1850's in Victoria Oz. (in reply to marylandbottler) Post #: 2

RE: your oldest bottle - 4/16/2006 8:42:48 PM    marylandbottler   Posts: 17 Joined: 4/6/2006 From: baltimore Status: offline o and pics are optional if its not to much trouble lol (in reply to marylandbottler) Post #: 3

RE: your oldest bottle - 4/16/2006 9:13:00 PM    Unidumper   Posts: 64 Joined: 3/14/2006 From: Lincoln, NE Status: offline Welcome Maryland, I'm not sure which is my oldest bottle but this one has to be close. Any information that might help put an age on it or help with it's origin would be appreciated. Attachment (1) (in reply to marylandbottler) Post #: 4

RE: your oldest bottle - 4/16/2006 9:14:38 PM    Unidumper   Posts: 64 Joined: 3/14/2006 From: Lincoln, NE Status: offline Anotherr view of "Epileptical" bottle Attachment (1) (in reply to marylandbottler) Post #: 5

RE: your oldest bottle - 4/16/2006 9:23:43 PM    bearswede Posts: 2906 Joined: 9/28/2004 From: western mass Status: offline Here's my oldest bottle... 1st to 3rd century AD... Ron Attachment (1) _____________________________ "I LOVE Wolfies!!!!!!!!!!!!" (in reply to marylandbottler) Post #: 6

RE: your oldest bottle - 4/16/2006 9:58:23 PM    tfredrich   Posts: 154 Joined: 10/9/2003 Status: offline In Wisconsin bottles there really isn't that much before 1860. Here is a late 1860's clay beer from a tiny brewer named F.Schwarz out of Milwaukee. I just got this one, and love it! Tom Attachment (1) (in reply to marylandbottler) Post #: 7

RE: your oldest bottle - 4/16/2006 11:17:59 PM    Trying not to break it Posts: 2166 Joined: 12/18/2004 From: balt. md. Status: offline hi maryland bottler, i dug my oldest bottle on the eastern shore. it's a pontil bottle, about 1850. it's 9 1/2" tall with lots of whittle marks. i wish i could find more. rhona Attachment (1) (in reply to marylandbottler) Post #: 8

RE: your oldest bottle - 4/16/2006 11:18:00 PM    Insulators Rule!   Posts: 280 Joined: 8/30/2004 From: Strathroy, Ontario, Canada Status: offline Dont see many super old bottles here in Ontario, the oldest you get is 1850s, late, if that. MY oldest is one I dug circa 1876-1879. Its a nice Ontario brewery, embossed "M.Bixel/Lager Beer/Strathroy" _____________________________ Kyle Collector of Insulators, Ontario marked bottles, railway memorabilia and signs of all sorts (in reply to marylandbottler) Post #: 9

RE: your oldest bottle - 4/16/2006 11:53:38 PM    southern Maine diver Posts: 1436 Joined: 8/13/2005 From: South Berwick, Maine USA Status: offline Hey Marylandbottler... Welcome to the forum family... I know that you were attracted not only for the wealth of information, the professional advice and superior photographs... but for the intelectual content as well... Attachment (1) < Message edited by southern Maine diver -- 4/16/2006 11:54:15 PM > (in reply to marylandbottler) Post #: 10

RE: your oldest bottle - 4/16/2006 11:55:31 PM    southern Maine diver Posts: 1436 Joined: 8/13/2005 From: South Berwick, Maine USA Status: offline Well, maybe it was for the seafood... Picture reduced in size - please see Help - Using the Forum ---> Uploading a Picture - Admin Attachment (1) < Message edited by Admin -- 4/17/2006 1:00:20 AM > (in reply to marylandbottler) Post #: 11

RE: your oldest bottle - 4/16/2006 11:58:07 PM    southern Maine diver Posts: 1436 Joined: 8/13/2005 From: South Berwick, Maine USA Status: offline Either way, here is my oldest piece... it's not a bottle but I did find it in 55 feet of water. Wayne Iberian olive jar/Spanish storage/olive jar Picture reduced in size - please see Help - Using the Forum ---> Uploading a Picture - Admin Attachment (1) < Message edited by Admin -- 4/17/2006 1:00:50 AM > (in reply to marylandbottler) Post #: 12

RE: your oldest bottle - 4/17/2006 12:30:17 AM    capsoda Posts: 7703 Joined: 11/15/2005 From: Seminole,Alabama, USA Status: offline Yeap, You won't see no weird stuff on this forum pilgram. Attachment (1) _____________________________ 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 marylandbottler) Post #: 13

RE: your oldest bottle - 4/17/2006 12:39:51 AM    capsoda Posts: 7703 Joined: 11/15/2005 From: Seminole,Alabama, USA Status: offline Welcome to the forum. My oldest piece is a 1000 year old Chinese jar with lid I got from a friend. Not really a bottle. This piece is not a bottle either but I dug it up about 20 years ago. It's a childs toy pitcher that was made around 1800 and was pretty common back then. I have seen several broken ones but this is the only whole one I've seen. Attachment (1) _____________________________ 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 marylandbottler) Post #: 14

RE: your oldest bottle - 4/17/2006 9:26:17 AM    cowseatmaize Posts: 2135 Joined: 12/2/2004 From: Metro West, MA Status: offline My oldest is probably one of my Stoddards, say 1820's-50's. The scrolls are said to be 1830's to about 60. I like the ones I can narrow down a bit though. My Westford Glass is 1857-73 and my original Poland Water is 1876-78. Attachment (1) < Message edited by cowseatmaize -- 4/17/2006 9:37:39 AM > _____________________________ My 10¢ worth (inflation) Eric If you love what your doing it might be illegal, so watch your back. (in reply to marylandbottler) Post #: 15

RE: your oldest bottle - 4/17/2006 9:45:34 AM    Miles   Posts: 248 Joined: 9/6/2005 From: New York Status: offline HAHAHAHA man that's funny... Nice scroll flask..and Wayne, what type of Wine is that? (in reply to marylandbottler) Post #: 16

RE: your oldest bottle - 4/17/2006 9:53:30 AM    cowseatmaize Posts: 2135 Joined: 12/2/2004 From: Metro West, MA Status: offline Trying not to break it; is that your bottle washer I see? _____________________________ My 10¢ worth (inflation) Eric If you love what your doing it might be illegal, so watch your back. (in reply to marylandbottler) Post #: 17

RE: your oldest bottle - 4/17/2006 10:19:17 AM    amblypygi Posts: 452 Joined: 4/6/2004 From: Western Massachusetts Status: offline Here are my two oldest (bought on the left and dug/found on the right). The oldest one is the bought one, which I got at a yard sale at a house built in 1820. It had an electric lamp holder in the neck and I got it before the yardsale started for a buck From what I've been able to research, it's probably from France and was blown around 1730-1750. It was possibly brought to America around that time and eventually ended up in this farmhouse where it stayed until I bought it. This is all conjecture of course, but the guy who owns the house now is a direct decendant of the builder, and he says the bottle had been in the attic (with it's lamp thing) for as long as he could remember (he's in his 70s). If anyone has more reliable information I'd love to hear it. It has a huge neck; a quarter would fit in without even touching the sides. My oldest found or dug bottle is on the right, it's an unembossed medicine from the 1840/50s. I found that one in the Connecticut River within a mile of the house where I bought the other one! It was lying on a sandy bottom, completely un-buried, and all by itself, pretty weird. We eventually found an old dump on the bank about 100 yards upstream, but haven't managed to get back there for another dive because it's a real pain of an area to get to, lot's of very shallow water to get past. Everything we did manage to find there the one day we went was either broken or 1910, so we haven't been inspired to get back. Probably should though, it's only about a mile from my house as well. Good thread, let's see some more old bottle pics Sean Attachment (1) (in reply to marylandbottler) Post #: 18

RE: your oldest bottle - 4/17/2006 10:47:07 AM    cowseatmaize Posts: 2135 Joined: 12/2/2004 From: Metro West, MA Status: offline Huh, I bought my IP cathedral pickle as a lamp. I paid $35 for it in 1975 dollars though. _____________________________ My 10¢ worth (inflation) Eric If you love what your doing it might be illegal, so watch your back. (in reply to marylandbottler) Post #: 19

RE: your oldest bottle - 4/17/2006 11:47:54 AM    Ye Olde Prospector   Posts: 614 Joined: 1/23/2005 From: Bath, Maine Status: offline Here's my oldest dug bottle. It's a wide mouth case bottle, free blown, open pontil and very thin witout a chip or scratch. Believed to date between 1770-1810 probably of Dutch origin. Sometimes used to ship apothecary medicines etc. Dug this one here in Bath,Maine 5-6 years ago, one of my favorites. Not for sale. Cliff Attachment (1) (in reply to marylandbottler) Post #: 20

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