Common, but Cool!

[DeepSeaDan]

This dive day saw me find something I've been looking for but just couldn't locate - until now! A beautiful, sparkling Belfast / Ross round bottom! I know they're fairly common, but it's great to finally have one for my collection.

 

[zsmith333]

Beautiful bottles. I love those round bottom ones

 

[embe]

Nice finds

 

[Mailman1960]

Nice finds

I know how you feel, first thing I found today was a horseshoe, I'll clean and post later. You're are much better than mine

Nice finds

 

[CanadianBottles]

Nice finds! Those Ross's bottles are funny because they're really common but don't seem to show up in the wild very often, at least not for me. I don't remember ever seeing even a shard of one. They only seem to show up in antique stores.

 

[hemihampton]

IF FOUND IN THE WATER HOW COME NO SAND BLASTED DULL LOOK TO THEM?

 

[Wildcat wrangler]

I have a question for you- Shasta lake is only at 40% capacity- I have never seen it like it is, and I’ve lived here my whole life. I spent the last year finding beautiful crystal clusters out there as the water drops. I was shopping for a houseboat, the winter before last and the lake was full- all 365 miles of shoreline- full. Since then, I have watched them drain our lake and sell it to LA! It’s so shockingly low, looks like a river, over the weekend. And I was thinking, as it drops, the bottles that must be at the bottom of the lake. Would they be deep in what was mud? Or on top of it? I wonder if they are in the dried mud, how deep they would have sank, or if u have any tips on locating them? Or should I stick with the crystals that now, I can’t wash. (50 gallons per day per person, or a $1000 fine.)

Hard to launch but we did it.n I don’t know for how long…. What am I supposed to do with a brand new patio boat? Can’t give it to the bank- it’s paid for! A planter? This pix was last year:, pretty much the same spot:

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[Wildcat wrangler]

Btw- those are such pretty bottles u got! I recognize the Belfast one, but what are the square ones? How do they look when u first get them out of the water? Cool rock, too!


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[DeepSeaDan]

IF FOUND IN THE WATER HOW COME NO SAND BLASTED DULL LOOK TO THEM?

Good question! My guess is this bottle sat buried in the riverbank for a long, long time, then current action & other factors eventually loosened the bank's grip on the bottle and it rolled out onto the riverbed. When I found it, the bottle didn't look particularly dirty ( as compared to other bottles in the vicinity ). It didn't suffer a long history of tumbling about the riverbed in a more rock-strewn, rougher environment, which tends to scratch & dull the exterior. Thus the condition of a bottle retrieved underwater is largely dependent upon the nature of the river itself, or the general conditions wherein it exists.

Here's a pic of another bottle, just found, that was found under 20" of soft bottom material in a lake; as you can see, it is almost perfectly clean! Bottles that exist in a sand environment underwater look similar. The other pic is a quart soda bottle found in a ( seasonally ) fast-flowing river, that was wedged in a crevice of a limestone bottom, strewn with rocks and boulders. It has the haze you speak of, as it's time underwater was more rough & tumble.

Hope that helps!

 

[DeepSeaDan]

Btw- those are such pretty bottles u got! I recognize the Belfast one, but what are the square ones? How do they look when u first get them out of the water? Cool rock, too!


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Thanks! The square ones are small medicine bottles with embossing on the side panels, the faces would likely have had labels at one time. Most of what I recover from the deeps are very dirty and require a lot of cleaning effort to make them shine again. I bring bottles like those to the surface and give them to friends & family who express a desire to display them, typically where sunlight pours in. I love the aqua blue colour!