Antique bottle dive in Wisconsin

[tfredrich]

Here are a few shots of last evenings dive in a large lake here in Southeastern Wisconsin. The usual booty we get out of this lake is turn of the century hand finished crown beers and sodas, hutchinson sodas, and blob weiss beers. Most are from the bigger names in the business out of Milwaukee like Pabst, Schlitz, Blatz, Gettelman, and then Graf as far as hutchinsons, and weiss beers go. Once in awhile you pop a rare hutch like these two Supreme Ginger Ale & Mineral Water Company hutchinsons.
Here are a few pics.
Tom

 

[tfredrich]

More bottles..........

 

[tfredrich]

Very large solid brass propeller stamped 1936 (date of manufacture)......

 

[Tony14]

nice dive tom!

what lake were you in?

 

[tfredrich]

A close up of a very early pepper sauce and the pair of rare square blob hutchinsons.....

 

[tfredrich]

I was diving in Pewaukee behind an old bar/hotel. I stayed in an area about the size of 1/2 of a tennis court palming the bottom. Bottles were constantly hitting my hands. 19 crowns, 6 hutches, 3 weiss beers, and some other neat bottles. My buoy almost sunk from the weight of all the bottles. The depth of the lake was 4 feet.
Tom

 

[arthur]

Nice finds

 

[Tony14]

wow sounds like a fun dive! You guys should try and make a trip out here in to fond du lac sometime, i know a couple of spots that would be killer[].

Im going to be walking a creek in campbellsport fairly soon that the bottling works actually took there water from. hoping to find some of the amber slug crowns or a hutch from there[]