jays emporium
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About 35 years ago when I was first starting to collect bottles there was an old house in town that had old looking bottles stuck in the ground with just the bottoms exposed lining the sidewalk and flower beds. I finally got enough nerve to ask the ancient old lady if I could have some of those bottles. She said NO. So I asked what if I replaced them with some other bottles about the same size and she said OK.
They were mostly unembossed aqua and amber quart blob top beers and hock wines. I did find an embossed amber blob top San Antonio Brewing bottle and Conrad's Original Budweiser and a local Hutchinson and a few other embossed bottles in there though and replaced them with some screw top quart whiskey bottles.
Since then I've seen bottles at flea markets and shows that show the same stained pattern with the top part of the bottle severely stained and the bottom clean from never being in the ground. So I guess this was a common practice around the turn of the century. Have any of you ever come across this?
They were mostly unembossed aqua and amber quart blob top beers and hock wines. I did find an embossed amber blob top San Antonio Brewing bottle and Conrad's Original Budweiser and a local Hutchinson and a few other embossed bottles in there though and replaced them with some screw top quart whiskey bottles.
Since then I've seen bottles at flea markets and shows that show the same stained pattern with the top part of the bottle severely stained and the bottom clean from never being in the ground. So I guess this was a common practice around the turn of the century. Have any of you ever come across this?