Actually, that is pretty much what I do, but I found my first in a bottle dump right off a trail where I was metal detecting. Kallocrine for the skin and hair, a $322 bottle from a small pharmacy in Connecticut from the 1840s. I started to look for more but on the first day all I found was...
While digging a hole for a pond insert I had the idea of burying some really common and not now old bottles (if you want to know, Anheuser-Busch) for future bottle diggers or archaeologists.
Is that a barcode I see? not very old and probably original sell price value. it would display nicely, though. I like how it looks on your window sill.
The red paint bottle is from the 70s-80s. the white one is likely a cream, sometimes the contents are still inside and the lid looks to be in good enough shape to open. Which is the eagle bottle?And the ridged vial?