I found an old bottle with some type of metal cap clamped and rusted on. Will anything help in getting that off without prying? the bottle is very thin. Help
I pulled about 50 bottles out of a creek bed burried in the bank, and I think there are many more but how do I dig safely. Just to get to the bottles I collected, I had to walk over more broken glass than I have ever seen on, or in the ground. With each step I was worried that a piece or 5 would...
I have a bottle with raised lettering on the surface. It reads "J. S. Prescott & Company Liquid Stove Polish New York" the bottle requires a cork or stopper. Does anyone know anything about. Value, age, date of manufacture, anything would be helpful. It might read "J.C. Prescott" instead of...
On a recent trip down into a creek, I came up with about 50 bottles in various shapes, between 1 1/2 - 10 inches tall. They all have one thing in common, a hard film, possibly mineral deposits, brown in color. I took a shard with the film on it, and it took steel wool to get this stuff off. Is...