Gunsmoke, I gotta agree with you on the Ebay thing. Blows my mind when I see "Rare Clorox Bottle" or similar in the title of the listing. Half or better of the stuff these people are listing as rare are nothing more then 22 targets.
I bought a "Callender's" Bitters years ago that according to Ring's "For Bitters Only" was unique, only one known, and I figured I had it. When I got the thing it was a real let down. Clear glass, turn of the century looking, no character. When I sold my collection in 1989 nobody would give me...
Hi Caretaker, you talk about digging lots of booze bottles, I agree. In the early years of my town there was a lot of iron mining and lumbering going on around the area. The dumps from those camps contained almost exclusively whiskey and beer bottles while the farm dumps had a mix of bottles...
Mike, I'm right handed, if you stand on the left side and me on the right maybe we can make some progress. Only trouble is I think you live about $600.00 worth of gas away from me.
As I remember the only cresolene bottles I ever dug or saw were clear. It's a long time ago so maybe I'm wrong. I never kept any of them because they weren't valuable.
What was embossed on it and what color was it? Don't know how to get a hold of him anymore but there's a fellow named George Waddy in upstate New York that can tell you all you want to know about SAratoga's
I found one of these in the Long Lake dump in the Adirondacks years ago. While I was down picking it up a bear came up behind me and my friend we made a high speed exit back to the top of the dump with the bottle. I always heard they were keepers and I knew Schlitz put them out but never knew...
Thanks for the responce. I do have a Drake's 4 log, I believe it's a D110 and it's all I have left. I sold all my Bitters because I became a sick man when I was collecting them. I spent way too much money. Had to get out before I became homeless if you know what I mean. The reason I still have...
Carmo, Vapo-Cresoline was like modern day Vicks Vapo rub. There was a small oil lamp with a metal dish on top that you put the vapo- cresoline in and lit the lamp. The heat from the lamp apparently filled the air with the vapors from the product which I think relieved congestion. I have a...
This is the bottle that got me started in bottles back when I was about 13 in the late 60's. I was out in the woods with my dog and came across a dump. A Warner's was laying face up on the ground. The embossed safe intriqued me so I stuck it in my back pocket (they fit nice). When I got home I...
Hi, I've got 2 steel cans, (somewhere at my mothers house) that are wood grain on the outside. I 'm pretty sure one is Shaeffer, I think the other is Rheingold but not sure. A buddy of mine found them in the wall of an old house under renovation. He traded me the cans for a full bottle of beer...