Search results

Welcome to our Antique Bottle community

Be a part of something great, join today!

Register Log in
  1. A

    NEED ID ON ENGLISH BLOB SODA/MINERAL WATER????

    RE: seeing we are on the topic of blobs Hi dirtflicker, Yes, your bottle is English. A beer bottle dated around 1900-1910. West Bromwich is North West of Birmingham in the English Midlands. I have a codd from the same company. Nice bottle, but no great rarity or value I'm afraid, over...
  2. A

    Loft find

    Hi Stuart, I can't say without seeing the condition, but typically the Ginger Beers are worth £10 / £25 each to collectors I see some are "R Whites", one of the more common makes, but still good if they are in mint condition. These bottles date about 1900-1915 I'd say. Andyf
  3. A

    Pipes

    Hi Madpaddla, Nice picture. The very bottom one in the photo could be very old....it's probably 17th/early 18th century.... Take a look at... http://www.dawnmist.demon.co.uk/pipe-1.htm Andyf
  4. A

    Dump found

    Hi Stonemason I download Paint Shop Pro shareware off the web, and use it to resize mine, usually down to about 22% of original. http://www.corel.com/ ...though pretty well any image package will do this.. Andyf
  5. A

    poison bottle USA or English

    Yep, I'd say English. I think the stopper is non-original though (may be why it is stuck!) 32 on the base may be 32 Ounce, it is common to do this. Date - 1920-20 I'd say. Value: Well over here it would not be high, perhaps $10-15 USD equivalent. Andyf
  6. A

    Mysterious number

    Hi Chantella, The numbers on the base of bottles usually have little meaning, they are simply mould numbers from manufacture, or a batch number of some sort. One exception is large lettering on the base of some English Codd bottles, where a single letter would represent the bottle filler...
  7. A

    does anyone know anything about 32oz australian ginger beers?

    Hey Willman, nice set of GB's....!! Very cool, did you dig all of these..? Andyf
  8. A

    a little solo dig today

    Hey Philabottles great posting and pics. Andyf
  9. A

    The Wreak of the Republic

    Hi Capsoda Wow, I had no idea you could be arrested for digging.... We don't really have that sort of problem except for (for instance) metal detecting on protected sites. I guess that in that sort of climate then something like this sale could easily cloud peoples views further. I...
  10. A

    The Wreak of the Republic

    Well guys, I'm going to go against the flow here.... At the end of the day, a bottle is a bit of glass worth nothing, except to those that place a value on it. Be it $50, or $1000, it's still just a bit of glass. If someone pays that price, well, they can probably afford it, so it's fair...
  11. A

    Farm layout question

    Hi JGUIS, I have a bit of input here, based on searching for dumps on farms in the UK. That may not seem too relevent, but of course many US farmers were emegrants and may have taken practices with them. The first point I'd note is that dumps can be VERY close to houses. It seems that they...
  12. A

    Whiskey, Wine or Beer ..... Oh my!

    Oooh nice OLD bottles... An important thing to consider is that often a local merchant would bring a barrel of whiskey/win/rum etc., and then decant it into bottles for local sale. This means that although the style may be that of a particular beverage, the reality was often to use or...
  13. A

    Mystery Bottle...Oldie but Goodie!

    Hi Brad, That is one strange bottle.... The metalwork looks like pewter or gunmetal. The design looks french, judging from the Fleur de Lys design. Couple of questions... Is the stopper corked? How tall is it? Is there any evidence of silver plating? It may have had that, and it's all...
  14. A

    First underwater finds of 06

    Hi there Southern Maine, I think your oil lamp may be a door knob! Glass insulators are interesting, we just don't have them in the UK, everything was usually Porcelain. good luck Andyf
  15. A

    i've got it all planned

    Hey Willman, Sounds like you've done some good research and got some great leads going.... I agree with your comment about dumps in sand, but also I'd add where they burned wood in fires, rather than coal. Wood ash leaves bottle sparkling mint too... Good luck with your digging...good...
  16. A

    hay Andyf what you been up to

    Hi Willman, I've been in the South of France for a week, looking at Medeival castles. Cool. Mountains of middle ages pottery shards, but no bottles !! Andyf
  17. A

    Out prospecting part 3!

    Also found some nice clay pipes... One says O'brian, Mayo St, Dublin, the other says "Dr Adamson" on one side of the stem, and "?P CANAL" on the other. It has a head onone side of the bowl, (sorry bad photo) and a sailing boat on the other... (Postscript - Apparently Dr Adamson built the...
  18. A

    Out prospecting part 3!

    Here it is cleaned up a bit...
  19. A

    Out prospecting part 3!

    One minute later WOW! This is the first ever Hamilton I've found. Cool! It's got a chip,and is badly stained, but hey I'm not complaining...
  20. A

    Out prospecting part 3!

    At first, it looked like it had already ben dug, but then I realised it was just a collapse into the stream. I set to work with a fork. Great digging, just throw the spoil DOWNHILL into the stream, saves some energy! I soon found a really cool pot...the age looks good....!

Latest posts

Members online

Total: 384 (members: 5, guests: 379)

Latest threads

Forum statistics

Threads
83,417
Messages
744,289
Members
24,467
Latest member
tasha85

Share this page

Top