Just to show you that we dive in fresh water as well, I found this Gulden's capers bottle in the Conn River, outside of Hartford. This is what many fresh water finds look like before cleaning...[:'(]
Wayne, There is a similar bottle listed in Zumwalt's food book . It has everything your bottle has embossed on the front panel plus a patent date of March 29 , 1898. The bottle is listed as scarce . You really cannot go by the prices in this book as it was put out in 1980 but the variant with the patent date listed at $18.00. Slimdigger
Thanks for getting back to me. The bottle I found is in very very nice condition and you should see the stretch marks in the neck! These photos don't do it justice. I'll take some more pics of it and show it to you.[]
It looks like an awesome bottle. I have dug many different Gulden's but never I have I seen a capers style bottle until you shared the beautiful one you have. I look forward to seeing the photos. Slim
You should see the stretch marks in the neck of this thing... I'll have to dig it out and get some more photo's... I'm still practicing with the digital camera and this'll give me an excuse![]
Hey Slim, I tried taking more photos of the Capers, but I don't think they came out real well, you can't really see the stretch marks and when I looked real closely at it, there were a lot of very minute, fine scratches in it... Oh well, it still is a nice bottle and displays very well[:-]
Looks real crude. that is the way I like em. The more maunucaturing defects the better in my book! I hit the dumps for a while this afternoon. Dug about 40 bottles and brought 25 home. No real killers. A fellow was digging next to me and after he left i checked out his pile of rjects. He had left a nice double collared whiskey cylinder. I guess he figure that if it was not embossed it was not worth keeping. Slim