photolith
Well-Known Member
So, I collect bottles because they're the most easily findable and or affordable pieces of American/world history that anyone can find. I first found a broken in half hutch in 2009 (in a creek and I knew it was something historic as Ive always been interest in history and knew that was no modern anything) or so while in college as I was doing a geology survey in Arkansas of a creek next to Arkansas Tech University. I still have the broke in half hutch today but its not with me in PA today but still in Texas at my parents house (attached is a photo of the first intact Russellville AR hutch I found about 3 months later in 2010 in the same creek, which I moronically put olive oil at the time thinking it would clear up the glass but have yet to clean out). I've always wondered why Ive obsessed since over antique glass and I can never quite understand it (as theres so many other antiques but none have interested me as much as glass). The pre machine made glass is just so beautiful and it can so connect us so easily to our past and the common peoples past. Historic glass just looks so beautiful in light and proper displays. Historic paintings, high end historic pottery, furniture, guns, etc is only attainable to the very wealthy; meanwhile historic glass is still attainable to us who only have mid income or willing to dig for basically free (as well as fossils and minerals). Anyways, why do you collect glass? Also post your collections or as well as possible you're entire collection in one photo or multiple photos as possible.
Also, why the hell is this forum so dead. When I posted on this forum in the early 2010's it was so lively. Some of my threads get 2k views or more, but yet hardly anyone posts comments anymore. Other forums I post to such as skyscrapercity or skyscraperpage are still very active. It seems that most people now on this forum just peruse and never post and are just looking to others posts to find the value of the bottles (which I largely don't care about and if you actually care about the history of the bottles you shouldn't care about either).
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Also, why the hell is this forum so dead. When I posted on this forum in the early 2010's it was so lively. Some of my threads get 2k views or more, but yet hardly anyone posts comments anymore. Other forums I post to such as skyscrapercity or skyscraperpage are still very active. It seems that most people now on this forum just peruse and never post and are just looking to others posts to find the value of the bottles (which I largely don't care about and if you actually care about the history of the bottles you shouldn't care about either).
Untitled by photolitherland, on Flickr
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