Geez, on one hand, I'd love to live in a place like Detroit so I can have experiences likes this.
On the other hand, I'd want to live long enough to have experiences like this and Detroit would be detrimental to that goal.
Fantastic find!
This is a mint condition bottle that originally contained Hagars Electric Relief. Who knows what the heck that was, or what it was made of. For a price of 50 cents, you could have any ailment under the sun cured for good.
My grandfather was a collector of anything and everything under the sun. In his house, he stashed away all sorts of things. I've even found grenades in the walls. (deactivated) Today I noticed in the rafters in the basement, a very dusty insulator shaped object. I grabbed a ladder, climbed up...
I found these two pint milks in a couple of days ago. These are by far the rarest bottles I've ever dug. They are both 1941 dated Reichweins Dairy bottles from Fountain Springs Pennsylvania. Fountain Springs is a tiny little hamlet in Pennsylvania, and any bottle with that town name is pretty...
Here are a couple more old coal region Pennsylvania bottles for your enjoyment. :) Sorry about the poor quality photos.
Weyysers Porter came from a brewery in Mauch Chunk Pennsylvania, now Jim Thorpe Pennsylvania. Mauch Chunk was a major coal mining hub in the region for the railroads...
Here are a couple of bottles from Pottsville Pennsylvania, a miners haven back in the 19th and 20th Centuries.
This first beer bottle was from the Mellet and Nichter Brewing Company, that lasted from 1908 to 1920. This bottle strikes me as coming from the 1908 to 1915 era, due to its...
I had a bottle buyin' spree, and several more are coming in the mail. Eh, why not, you only live once. :/
W.H. Calvert, Charleroi PA.
North Side Bottling Works, Latrobe PA.
Wm. H. Raubenhold, Hamburg PA.
Brokoffs Dairy, Pottsville PA.
Wm. S. Cowen, Pottsville PA
I found these one, but it's unfortunately broken.
I'm still looking. PLEASE! Any Fountain Springs Brewing Company, Pure Springs Brewing Company or Ashland Brewing Company bottles you have, I want!
I just moved to Pennsylvania, and I've already started hunting for bottles. First, I made a stop in Washington County where I find some interesting finds, but this Beer from Brownsville probably being the best.
Then when I came to my new home in Ashland, I found this heartbreaker, a...