If you have limited space for your collection, as I do, try a rotating display. Switch out your bottles on display, mixing the colors and sizes to make the display more interesting. It also helps keep the peace if you have a live-in partner who is less enthusiastic about bottle collecting if...
How should you photograph bottles? That is a problem, isn't it. I have tried several ways to do it and am satisfied with all the results. This first one is with a light colored background and the sun shining on the bottle from behind. The colors are true and the photo is good.
Here are my Hawaiian dairy bottles.
1. Waihee Dairy Quality plus Service
back side reads:
You Get All 5 Vitamins (milk bottle juggling balls A, B, C, D, G) In Milk.
bottom is embossed:
23 (i inside oval) 63 Duraglass in script
Note: If anyone can tell me what Vitamin G...
The only Hawaiian soda bottle I recovered from Hurricane Katrina so far. My daughter brought it to me along with a few other bottles before she ships out to Iraq.
Note: Bottles with H.I. are before 1900. In 1900 Hawaii became a U.S. Territory and all bottles after that were H.T.
Man, this is rough. This is my first winter in the frozen north and the temperatures drop down to minus 29. This is quite unlike winter, if you can call it that, on the Gulf Coast.
Anyway, I am starting this thread to get some input [sm=lol.gif] on things to do when you can't dig. I will...
I picked up a bottle for a buck and wanted some information about it. The description is as follows.
DR. AUGUST KOENIGS/HAMBURGER/TROPFEN
clear, round bottle 3 13/16" bim standard applied finish
History, who is he, what is this stuff etc. ...
Can one of you fine fellow followers of bottledom tell me about the lip on this bottle? My guess is that it would be a pouring spout, my second guess is that it is a manufacturers glitch. Third guess ... I ain't got one.