I'm from Utah. Not many bottles older than 1870's, but I have many that I found and dug. I was walking around a "ghost town" area near the salt flats about 10 years ago.
A town that was called "Gold Hill".
I took out my metal detector and was searching the weeds and sage brush for anything...
Hi, I just aquired 58 antique bottles from my mother. They are now displayed on a costum made shelf unit I designed, weighing approx. 85 lbs. with bottles.
There are many I haven't heard of, and these are mainly from the west. If anyone can help with info. on some of these, it would help...
About 30 years ago, I discovered an old dump site used by my relatives behind a cherry orchard above a house which is now about 140 years old. I found my first old bottles there. Even a safety razor that has gears on top that when you twist the lower part of the handle, these gears on the top of...
I scraped up a small bottle from a train stop that began it's life in the early 1870's.
This was the area's dump site which was just a small ravine on a hill side. This bottle is approx. 3" high and 1/2" in diameter. The neck is about an inch high. There is a seam that stops about 1/2" below...