Distant bottles

[NYCFlasks]

While reading Jims post on his 30th Paterson hutch, he mentioned how far it had traveled. I was wondering how many of us have bottles in our collections that have, like Jims hutch, traveled a great distance.
I have a flask in my collection, "John Heinbockel/cor. Hicks & Fulton/Sts/Brooklyn" is a quart, slug plate, amber strap with applied top. Came to me via Australia, yea, way down there. From eBay, and buying it forced me to sign up for PayPal, as it was the only way I could pay the seller, who was a heck of a nice guy.
My guess is it must have kept some sailor warm and happy on that long trip.

 

[epackage]

This stonie came from Hawaii, boggles the mind how it got there, but I'm happy it's home...[]

 

[botlguy]

My one and only Large size WAW-WAW bottle also came from Australia, through eBay, the only known place the large ones have been found. It is 1 3/8 inches tall compared to the typical 7 1/4 inch and still has Australian dirt in it. I have not had a chance at another.

 

[ScottBSA]

I don't have anything as dramatic as Australia, but I picked up a Hinckel Brewing co bottle from Albany, NY in Tampa, Florida, probably came with a snowbird, a JD Iler beer bottle from Kansas City, that I bought through ABN, was dug in western Colorado, but lots of them were shipped to the west and a couple of weeks ago I picked up a Kansas City Muehlebach Beer glass in an antique mall outside of Rochester, NY.
The weirdest local bottle I have heard of so far were two FH Kump ale bottles found in a wall of a house they were tearing down in Philadelphia. What was going on there? There are lots of brewers in Philadelphia between 1870 and 1884 when these bottles were sent or shipped from Kansas City.
If I don't get rid of my bottles before I die, folks are going to say,"How did all those Syracuse, NY bottles get to Kansas City?"
Let's see some more stories.

Scott

 

[digger dun]

I found this Iowa bottle in a junk store out in Montauk NY. got it for $5!

 

[adshepard]

I too love the travelling bottles. All my bottles come from diving old steamship wharves so for the most part they come from the ports that the ships stopped at. My diving is done in Downeast Maine, the far tip of New England. But since the ships came from as far north as Nova Scotia and as far south as Philadelphia I find bottles from all ports inbetween.


Alan