Search results

Welcome to our Antique Bottle community

Be a part of something great, join today!

Register Log in
  1. W

    Old whisky bottle find

    I like it and its unusual form and simple ringed neck/lip. It has a tooled finish (was handmade). Almost certainly made prior to 1910 (definitely before WW1*) and I'd guess closer to 1890s. I found one like it in association with a turn-of-20th century logging camp in WA. * That hint of...
  2. W

    Marbles I found on my antique landfill

    Is it accessible with a backhoe :p?
  3. W

    Another mystery bottle from the Atlantic.

    Bulbous necks were frequently seen on beer and ale bottles, but the tall proportions of your find lead me more in the direction of a container for liquor such as brandy. I agree with others that it is likely of European origin.
  4. W

    Atlanta- Digging in my yard/Superfund site

    Welcome to the forum! That Brandi Mist bottle certainly caught my eye. My own interest lies more with earlier, blown-in-mold, hand finished bottles. (You'll see "BIM" acronym or BIMAL, with the "AL" referring to Applied Lip, used frequently by bottle diggers and collectors as a shorthand to...
  5. W

    I Can See For Miles and Miles and Miles....

    I don't perceive in the photo such a pronounced and distinctive transition as you describe. However, I can speculate that such appearance might simply result from thicker glass material in the lower third of the bottle.
  6. W

    Light box photos.

    All are quite nice! The bottom-illuminated ones are my favorites. I think they might be even nicer if bottle was positioned over hole(s) through the board sized close to, but smaller than, the outer diameter of bottle(s).
  7. W

    Back to the Cellar Hole Full of Bottles

    It did break; but it also cleaned up enough to be legible. Watch the video Leon; it's a beer sign!
  8. W

    Bottle collecting for over 50 years and cannot ID this one

    Well, 3" diameter seems much too big for a doorknob. I guess that has me weighing-in on the inkwell theory. That opening is certainly large enough for an actual feather quill pen. If the largest diameter area (moving up from the base) transitions into a somewhat concave profile forming a...
  9. W

    Hey Everyone, just joined and found this bottle

    Found a fair number of them in WA too, especially on a site near Stanwood that had a shingle mill on it turn-of-century. I most often see the style attributed to being "English Ale" bottle.
  10. W

    Bottle collecting for over 50 years and cannot ID this one

    In the photos that I see, an opening "...only .25 inches in diameter" doesn't seem in-scale with a three-inch overall diameter. Could you double-check your measurements please? In the third photo, are those internal threads visible through the glass near the bottom of an internal void? If so, I...
  11. W

    Newbie help

    I still have the first embossed, cork-closure Clorox bottles that I found, but that is only because I find it difficult to discard of anything that reminds me of good times prowling through forests half-a-century ago. Additionally, when I found those bottles in 1970 or '71, I was into film-based...
  12. W

    Dream Dig: Barrel bitters dug from an incredible dump!

    Oh man! The envy bug bites again! Wonderful dig; thanks for sharing!
  13. W

    Today finds

    Yes, I believed you. I should have written: "Kinda thought that myself, but was not sure." instead of "Kinda thought that myself, but not sure." Unfortunately, I was in a hurry and did not take the time to edit my post, so it might have read like I was questioning your identification of the...
  14. W

    Digging dumps with hard soil? SW USA

    Thanks. I'm just trying to help some people relatively new to evaluating a site with some things I realized ages ago. Having worked in a number of fields over a lifetime, I've earned that not everyone views situations in the same manner. I've even embarrassed myself by not seeing "obvious"...
  15. W

    Today finds

    Kinda thought that myself, but not sure.
  16. W

    Finds from a Hawaiian forest

    Let me revise the coordinates (I had to look at historical aerial photos to get more precise location of where we actually dug in '70 and '71) to: 47.64459 -122.29869
  17. W

    Finds from a Hawaiian forest

    Since you like shards, there is a site in Seattle (see Lat/Lon coordinates below) that you might want to check out while you are in the area if it is convenient to you. There was a turn of the 20th Century landfill in the Montlake neighborhood. Trash was dumped into marshes of Lake Washington...
  18. W

    Digging dumps with hard soil? SW USA

    Welcome aboard! If "everything's broken" in two feet of digging through a dump, then the biggest question is how the pieces of the broken items are situated. Are they in close association with each other? In other words, if you dropped a rock, brick, cast iron stove piece or etc. on top of a...
  19. W

    Today finds

    Great Jar! Have you researched what that "Spectator Flash" nameplate is from?
  20. W

    Today finds

    I have some insight, as you know, into your frustration searching for antique bottles in western WA. I also have some insight into your persistence--you'll get there!

Latest posts

Members online

Total: 711 (members: 2, guests: 709)

Latest threads

Forum statistics

Threads
83,324
Messages
743,599
Members
24,353
Latest member
Hayden.Brown

Share this page

Top