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    what's this?

    That's a stylized SP on the front. Neat, bluish green color. Any idears?
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    teeny tiny cellar holes

    So, I keep finding these teeny tiny cellar holes. I’ve found three of them way out on the hiking trails (since I started looking for bottles, I spend more time looking for straight lines in the forest than I do at the trail, if you know what I mean!). What are these? They seem way too...
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    bottles under the rocks

    I was talking with a very experienced bottle collector over the weekend (40+ years of digging) and mentioned that my first and only old dump seems to have played out. I explained that the few good bottles I found were right near the surface (1870s or so whiskey flask, late 1800s blob top beers...
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    ATLAS jars

    Hi All, I found about a dozen ‘ATLAS E – Z SEAL’ and one BALL jar. I found them in what I think is a fifties dump (dated by some Coca-Cola bottles I found there). I have no idear if these things are collectable, but two of the ATLAS jars are really nice to look at. One is a sort...
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    cellar hole diagnosis...

    I found what appears to be a very old cellar hole way out in the middle of nowhere, NH. It is made of un-mortared stone. The thing is, I'm not sure it's a cellar hole for a house. It seems too small - it's only about 10 feet square (with a little 5' square alcove at the end of it). It has...
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    Pet pix...?

    Maggie the Golden Retriever: Bottle retriever training is thus far unsuccessful...
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    keep-alive post

    Hi Folks, This is, more than anything, a ‘keep-alive’ message; I haven’t been out to the dump very often in the past few weeks and haven’t found anything interesting to share. I don’t want to lose my account due to inactivity, so here’s about the best thing I could come up with...
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    larkin soap co. buffalo

    Hi, I found an interesting little bottle (about 2" high) with the following, barely legible, embossing: Larkin Soap Co. Buffalo The glass is extremely thick. It is clear, sqare, and unfortunetely, the top is broken off at the neck. My Zumwalt's book has a blurb on Larkin - but not...
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    genric, hopefully pre-1900 bottle

    Hi All, I uncovered a small cache of junk while extreme-digging the vertical side of my 20's-30's dump. I found a few odd bottles that I am hopeful are older than what I usually find there. Ever since I found a blob top Schlitz in this dump I have been hoping to find it's littermates...
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    wyeth bottle

    Embossing on front is: JNO WYETH & BRO PHILADELPHIA LIQ. EXT. MALT any info, especially age, would be appreciated!
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    HOLIHAN BREWERS beer - looks older too me

    I was hoping that this bottle was pre-1900 - but if I look very carefully (and am honest with myself) I can see the mold seam extending through the lip of the bottle (see attached image #2. Still, this bottle looks old to me - very bubbly, wavy glass, etc. The bottle has a stylized HB on...
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    dating new cache (1906-1926)

    Hi All, Found a new cache of bottles today in my 40’s dump – nothing too old, but older than what I usually find (so far I’ve found approximately a million 1930s and 1940s bottles and two (count them, two!) pre-1900 bottles. I’m trying to date the cache. The Listerine bottles...
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    NH antique store recommendation

    Hi All, I'm heading out mother's day shopping in a bit. I was going to hit a few antique stores. I figured I might as well overload the trip with bottle shopping! Anyway, I know there are some NH folks around and was wondering if any of them could recommend an antique store that: a) Has...
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    counterfeits

    Seems to me it would be relatively easy to counterfeit some of the more valuable old bottles. How do you experienced collectors detect counterfeits?
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    where to order a probe

    Hi All, I recently read a post in which a link was provided to a site which sold probes. I think it was a metal detector site. I can no longer find the post. Anyone know where I can order good probe (preferably order online)? I'd rather buy one than make one. Thanks!
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    today's luch hour find

    Hi Folks, BEER! I found this bottle today in my usual place. I had been finding some newer bottles (1940s) but this one appears (to me – but what do I know) to be older. The glass is somewhat wavy and there are trapped air bubbles in it. The seam stops at the neck. I’m posting...
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    snorkling for bottles? Is that crazy?

    In the summer I like to take my kids up to the mountains. We often end up at one of several clear, sandy, kettle ponds in that area. I know that at least two of the ponds were once the sites of grand resort hotels that were built in the 1850’s. I know that these resorts maintained fleets of...
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    lunch hour finds

    All right, I'm becoming a little obsessed with this whole bottle thing. I can't imagine how bad it will get if I ever find anything that has value! I found these three in my usual spot during my lunch break, today. So, what do I have here? Any ideas? Any information would be appreciated...
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    newbie finds more worthless stuff!

    Hi Folks, I’m new to this, so forgive me if these bottles are from last week’s garbage [;)] Anyway, I found dozens of bottle fragments (here is a sample) and a few intact jars embedded in a streambed, behind an old farm. I was only able to grab a small sample of because I had my dog...
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    newbie: poking around on public land

    Hi All, I’m new to this – having just found my first bottle (which led to the discovery of this site and some piqued interest!). Anyway, over the last several years I’ve made somewhat of a hobby of exploring the local small preserves and conservation lands looking for antiquities...

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