I was up @ Brimfield last weekend and came across a vendor selling a small cobalt poison with a skull and crossbones with 2 stars on it marked POISON. The bottle was in pretty bad shape with a large crack running the entire backside, despite the condition the vendor still wanted $30. He said it...
I recently picked up what appears to be a baby bottle from an estate sale near me. It's in perfect condition with a neat embossing of an old style bulldog on the front of it. I can't find any sort of marking on it and haven't been able to locate any info on Yahoo, Google or Ebay about it either...
Recently my boyfriend and I have been given permission to dig around on the property of a house built circa 1675. The house is going to knocked down and the property leveled to make a dog park!! So much for preserving the past! Anyway, we have been using a spring steel rod to probe the ground...
I was wondering if anybody out there every comes across old Yuengling Beer Bottles. According to the bottle they are the oldest brewery in the US so there should be a ton of bottles out there but I never seem to find them or see them. Maybe its just that I'm in Connecticut, I mean...I have to...
Hi! I'm addicted to anything from the Larkin Soap Co. I have fallen madly in love with the whole principle of the Larkin Co. and any/all items relating to them. I especially love Larkin bottles and already have a pretty extensive collection, I'm always looking for more though. I've been scouring...
Hi! I'm new to this forum but both my boyfriend and I are "bottle dump junkies" located in Connecticut. Last week we were digging in a dump close to our house and found this L&V Root Beer bottle under the roots of a huge dead maple growing out of the middle of the dump. Amazingly this beauty...