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    Bottle Collections Chat

    HI RED,Thanks for the info. That is good to hear it is Ball Glass. Just because I lived over there for almost 20 yrs. Good to hear to they still doing great. Atleast sounds that way. --- Any time you are part of somethings importance that is still used today. Like making the glass. You have to...
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    New here & to collecting - But found great dig sites what got me started

    HI RED,Really have not found much of anything with Handles... so far. No Pitchers, not many jugs, and no Glassware/kitchen ware stuff. But will keep a look out for them. Mainly been fruit jars, soda & beer bottles, Milk Bottles, wine bottles, medicine stuff bottles etc.. But I'll also let my...
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    New here & to collecting - But found great dig sites what got me started

    Due to Mosquitoes we haven't been out there for few weeks now.. Most likely not going back until fall or spring. It a swampy woods. Mosquitoes just unreal out there. But all the Bottles we found from our favorite spot is 1890 to 1930's... The Fruit Jars only ones finding before 1890. I think it...
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    Bottle Collections Chat

    HI Red, Yeah, I been to your page a few times. Mainly reading.. Seen all the comments from people. And Sign in area. Just never figured out how to make a user name to sign in.. lol I'll have to go back and look for it. Yeah, I been collecting the Fruit Jars. Mainly the 1858 & 1908 Pat ones But...
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    Amateur Fossil Digging

    HI RED, That's very cool. Dinosaur eggs.-- I never found any Dinosaur Bones YET. But I'm in that part of Indiana where every year or 2, others seem to find them a lot... It Where the Ice age happened, near Lake Michigan. Like 10 miles west of me (wolf Lake) I know they found many. And Last...
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    Amateur Fossil Digging

    My Mom got remarried and moved to retired in Florida. So I went Venice Florida to visit her for a week and see her new house this last January. And she shown all the beaches around there. Ran into some people who was looking for shark teeth. They shown me exactly how they find them. Where to buy...
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    Bottle Collections Chat

    RED, where in Indiana they making 900 bottles a minute? I only wondering, because I live in Indiana. Just cool thing to know. It is Ironic... I Just starting collecting the old Bottles and Fruit Jars 2 months ago. And just 2 yrs ago. I was dead broke (because housing market crash. was...
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    Ebay and Paypal problem

    I've had cases like that before. Back in days when I was selling on there. Before it was Ebay account got highjacked by someone else... and seller would win most those cases. Not all.. (But ebay got better at stopping that, now days) Some times really did happen. Now Days with CC fraud...
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    2 Antique Typewriters

    YES - sell only the keys. Scrap rest of Typewriter if in bad condition or if needs any fixing. Typewriters still dime a dozen. Easy to come across. The Keys will get you as much as the whole typewriter. Sometimes even more, since cost of shipping so cheap for keys. People collect keys, some use...
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    PayPal transaction

    BTW - I don't hate Ebay or Pay Pal.. I made a lot money with them in my time with them (have great true stores of items got cheap, almost nothing cheap,, had no clue what I had, until it sold sky high) .. But when I started getting burnt from their new (at that time) buyer agreements... I was...
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    PayPal transaction

    Digger... You would be wrong.. Pay Pal can freeze any bank you have attached to Pay Pal. It's in the user agreement you sign opening the account... Like most people I never knew it, until it happened to me... It a Freeze/ hold on Pay Pal and whatever is tied to it... which mine was only checking...
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    Found these in a house i Bought

    People tell me all the time I lost my Marbles... maybe they mine.. haha I not no Marble expert... But I do come across Marbles a lot and have plenty of them. Just brought home a Original bag of 120 marbles... and they Look Very similar to the ones your showing... 1970's.. Plus when I was selling...
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    Buying a Redbook Questions

    [attachment=PDR_8104.JPG] [attachment=PDR_8104.JPG] Here ugly first pics tried taking . I'll get better ones taken outside and more different ones..
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    Buying a Redbook Questions

    I was going look into buying a Redbook Today.. Since my crash course of learning about fruit Jars this month, Everyone says it Redbook I want to look in. And because I'm finding a crazy amount of the highly collectible ones. Which I really like them now and it got me to collecting them and...
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    New to Collecting Ball Pat Jars & others - have questions

    I know the pictures would help a lot... I have a very good camera. But I dropped it a couple yrs ago and now you have to hold certain ways and squeeze certain spots to get it shoot. It all ways think battery door open. And I never think about taking it to get fixed, until I go to use it. It a...
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    PayPal transaction

    Forgot to say.... Pay pal can Freeze any of Your accounts you attached on Pay Pal... If you put a checking account & also put a different Bank Credit Card... they can freeze both... Any account ever attached with them. If you are using your main everyday Checking account now with them... Leave...
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    PayPal transaction

    Pay Pal has Pro's & Con's like everything usually does. I was a heavy seller on there For over 10 yrs. Finally Quit selling on there 3 yrs ago... I probably made over 300,000 sales on ebay and used Pay Pal mainly. I had some problems with them But Not many.. I left with over 50,000 feedback and...
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    how do you tell him he has a $1.00 bottle not $1250.00

    hahaha.. I guess when they say... all ways start high, with your starting price. He Listened! hahaha... But now we know why his feedback is ZERO... No One Dumb enough to buy off him.. I Used to sell on ebay a lot.. Until got sick of it.. But I used to that stuff a lot when looking up prices on...
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    New to Collecting Ball Pat Jars & others - have questions

    I tried to take pictures. But the came out HORRIBLE. will try taking outside later this week... But finding the 1858 jars out in the woods. Got loving the old jars and old glass bottles.. For only 1 1/2 months collecting, and all been dug or laying in woods found. Been doing the crash course...
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    New here & to collecting - But found great dig sites what got me started

    THe MI house I have is in New Buffalo.... Very south MI, Just over the Indiana line. Real close to Lake Michigan..... And just 30 miles from there, in Indiana... I know where there many of old foundations, no one will care if dug around... Places where no been in extremely long time... Places...

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