30-40 bottles found

[grtr0267]

I was digging a new sewer line behind the building that was the bar and Hotel in ackley Iowa and found many bottles broken and some still in good shape but dirty trying to find out how to identify them and possibly sell please help am lost and dont know what i have if anything.Many of the bottles are very small and I think they are sample bottles but not sure some are colored some are clea please help.

 

[diggerjeff]

WE CAN HELP, BUT YOU WILL HAVE TO SEND SOME PICTURES!! IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A CAMERA DO YOUR BEST TO DISCRIBE THEM.. HEIGHT, COLOR, ANY EMBOSSED WORDING WILL HELP.

 

[grtr0267]

thank you just trying to figure out what i have will a web cam work to take pics and should i try to clean the bottles first one of them has a partially rotted cork with a milky burgandy liquid in it dont know what to do at all

 

[kastoo]

Oh boy! I can't wait to see these!

 

[grtr0267]

one of the bottles is shot and squat 3 3/4 inches tall tinted aqua in color and has the words MELLIN'S FOOD FREE SAMPLE arond the shoulder of the bottle and a P over an 8 on the bottum of it, another is clear 11 7/8 inches tall with the words BROTHERHOOD WINE CO above REGISTERED around the lower part of bottle and say FULL QUART with a crest between the words on shoulder.

 

[grtr0267]

here is one of the bottles i think its an ink well has the name SANFORD'S ans two 8 onthe bottom

 

[grtr0267]

here is another it says GILLETTS DOUBLE with an owl standing on a cresent moon and above EXTRACT ,E.W. GILLETT on one side and CHICAGO, U.S.A. on the other it is 5 3/8 inches tall and clear glass,there is a chip in the mouth of this bottle

 

[grtr0267]

this bottle is aqua and says SLOAN S LINIMENT BOSTON MASS. the first s in sloans is croked,there is a number on the bottom 1557 and it is 4 inches tall

 

[grdigger35]

What I've seen so far looks like a 1890's dumpsite.