Scored a number of firsts today down at the 1924-capped landfill.
Found my first complete 1 Pt. whiskey jug and then a second even nicer 1 Pt. whiskey jug.
Found my first 19th century clay pipe bowl fragment, stamped: "Dublin Pipe No. 1".
Scored this huge clay marble, a shooter, as well...
I found a Crown Distillers company whiskey bottle yesterday with the cork still in it and the bottle half full of liquid. As I rinsed it in the creek I could hear gas escaping from under the cork. Is it worth more even if it’s half empty? And if not can I safety try and drink this? Thanks for...
Found this today. It is a hand-tooled flask with a circle slug plate embossing that reads: Edward Rafter Importer New York City.
Can't find any information about Mr. Rafter or his imports buisness, perhaps it was just a short lived enterprise.
In situ:
Found these two bottles today. The embossing says Paul Jones Whiskey Louisville, KY. Both were washed out by the recent rains. They're both from about 1900-1910.
In situ:
The Gallagher Stores were a small chain of grocery stores that operated for a short time in New York City from 1902 until their closure in 1906. This is one of their tooled-lip, strap-sided, slug plate-embossed alcohol flasks.
Same trip as the Montgomery Alabama jug, but this one was found in a Perth Ontario shop, I asked her about bottles and she reached into a cardboard box and pulled out some newspaper with this gem wrapped in it. There are not very many embossed Canadian whiskey flasks so was quite pleased to...
My wife and myself did a little road trip to Montreal stopping in various small shops along the way. We stopped in Smith Falls at a junk shop and found this whiskey jug from Montgomery Alabama.
I did not buy it at the time and went on to Montreal did our little trip and a little research on...
I dug this bottle in a 20s dump back in NY I was wondering if anyone has seen one like it because I can't find any examples online. I believe it to be pretty rare.
hello all, i stumbled upon this website in search of more information on this bottle i found at a yardsale. it says the distillers agency united Edinburgh scotland on the bottom and looks vintage or antique i can't really tell. it is very nice but i was wondering if i could get anymore info on...