Beautiful bottles! I have just designed and had a shelf built for my bottles. It's oak, about 8 ft. long with 5 shelves and a 1/4" dowel across the front in case of earthquakes.
There are more than 50 bottles on it now, none as nice as yours.
I'm from Utah. Not many bottles older than 1870's, but I have many that I found and dug. I was walking around a "ghost town" area near the salt flats about 10 years ago.
A town that was called "Gold Hill".
I took out my metal detector and was searching the weeds and sage brush for anything...
Hi, I just aquired 58 antique bottles from my mother. They are now displayed on a costum made shelf unit I designed, weighing approx. 85 lbs. with bottles.
There are many I haven't heard of, and these are mainly from the west. If anyone can help with info. on some of these, it would help...
Thanks again, digger. These M.O.M. bottle seams stop just above the sholder of the bottle, this is why I thought they must be pre 1900. The neck and top are hand made.
About 30 years ago, I discovered an old dump site used by my relatives behind a cherry orchard above a house which is now about 140 years old. I found my first old bottles there. Even a safety razor that has gears on top that when you twist the lower part of the handle, these gears on the top of...
I scraped up a small bottle from a train stop that began it's life in the early 1870's.
This was the area's dump site which was just a small ravine on a hill side. This bottle is approx. 3" high and 1/2" in diameter. The neck is about an inch high. There is a seam that stops about 1/2" below...