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Furyus

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I’m starting to get into this. I found an old 1940’s bottle of root beer in the sand underwater off of Elliott Key. Was easy to identify just by Googling the numbers cast into it.

Then I find this in the sand bar off of Vizcaya, the mansion in Miami once owned by James Deering of the McCormick International Harvester Company.
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It was under a foot of sand and three feet of water. It has a seam down one side, is a screw off top, and has some pretty cool markings on it. It took a while to scrape all the barnacles off of it and as you can see, it still has some. Did a crayon imprint of all of it. It was also found amongst some old lumber, buried as well. Possible shipwreck? Anyways, any help from the experts here would be appreciated
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CanadianBottles

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Yeah that's a beer bottle, quite a modern one I'm afraid. I'd date it to around the 1970s, give or take a decade. It doesn't look typical for the US so I'd guess that it may have floated in from one of the Caribbean islands.
 

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I’m starting to get into this. I found an old 1940’s bottle of root beer in the sand underwater off of Elliott Key. Was easy to identify just by Googling the numbers cast into it.

Then I find this in the sand bar off of Vizcaya, the mansion in Miami once owned by James Deering of the McCormick International Harvester Company.
ebc0c9aaf348d336a4574d45fa5773c5.jpg
e894f3d0a6d31d843cbdd7f1cd6920db.jpg
It was under a foot of sand and three feet of water. It has a seam down one side, is a screw off top, and has some pretty cool markings on it. It took a while to scrape all the barnacles off of it and as you can see, it still has some. Did a crayon imprint of all of it. It was also found amongst some old lumber, buried as well. Possible shipwreck? Anyways, any help from the experts here would be appreciated
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Best advice I canear help lYu but the best digger has his own bottle books windle diggert Odell bartlesvile Oklaha uste to have a web site not sure but thread types like Yu just have to get some books one start two start threads I have foundrret alot of bottles that stumped alot of people say a hand blown brown levi Garret snuff bottles o figured was a ink bottle but oh Yustsr shoe Yu enough know some buyers even if they don't know yours is snuff bottles they manlligh show Yu how to tell if it For sure hand blown machine blown or

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We for sure found that it is made by the Thatcher Glass Company. Haven’t been able to find a picture of anything similar. Has two designs around the bottom- one has an anchor in the middle and I can’t discern the other.
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i think mickalob put them out in the late 1970s to the 80s . has no collicting vaue at thes time.
 

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That's not Michelob (see pic) but some other brand that I don't recognize. 70s era as it is twist-off.
 

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