Favorite Find That You Kept

[BobbyCommonBottles]

Love those Milks.....I like how the first one is embossed....looks unusual. Here's another one of my favorite recent finds....I just need to find a clock that fits, which I am working on and have been told by a buddy who owns a clock shop it is a french boudoir clock frame and they can go for thousands....

 

[digger dun]

This bronze aquamanile is my favorite artifact that I've dug, and it's a kind of bottle, sort of. It's at least from the 1880s as that was the age of the layer I dug it from, but it's probably older. I found an image of an identical one in the collection of a German castle that hosted period events. The man I spoke with there figured it was an 1860s-70s piece but he wasn't sure, having bought his on ebay. That would date to the dump I dug it out of. So it's not as old as I originally dreamed it might be, but it's still really cool! [attachment=photo (2).JPG][attachment=IMG_0679.JPG]

 

[BobbyCommonBottles]

That is very ornate......if I ever dug that...I'd consider it my best find....holy crap that is nice. Thanks for sharing...I will now be admiring the pictures of this for the next hour............Love the one back leg, and very nice patina.

 

[Bottleworm]

I have been digging for almost 3 years now and I have some sodas and other misc. things but my best is my milk I dug the first time I ever went bottle hunting on October 14th 2013. It was a beautiful day and the creeks were dry so I decided to walk down one local creek and discovered 2 dumps and multiple other dump spots. I spotted this under a root and started digging it out which took 15 minutes because all I had with me was a broken chunk of glass. I knew it was a milk but there were none this size from my town. Until now! That day I found this and a soda and a med. Since then I have pulled 80+ bottles and artifacts out of the two dumps. This milk is the only known and is unlisted in the local bottle book. I had an offer of $800 for it. Declined it. Never dug another since although I have dug shards of the pint and other half pint ones. Also dug shards from the other milk bottle my town has. Here's the pic! About as mint as a dug bottle can get. My only bottle from my hometown I have ever seen/dug.

 

[BobbyCommonBottles]

Very nice....Pint is it? Great story to go along with it.....it's amazing how much you can find if you just go for a walk sometimes! Thanks for sharing.

 

[Bottleworm]

Nope its a half pint! Probably the only reason it survived because its small. Yeah you never know where treasure can be found.

 

[goodman1966]

Found this in a pre-civil war house that was being torn down. [attachment=image.jpg]

 

[BobbyCommonBottles]

Seated Liberty! Very nice!

 

[cowseatmaize]

Mine are the few I have left and have sentimental value. They're about as common as the dirt and ash I dug them from but mean a lot to me. I can still remember each dump any of them came from and the work that went into getting them home. There is one left that has ties to my mother that I bought that as a lamp.Actually, it's the memories, not the objects so except one bottle I want my ashes to go in, I don't need any of it. Here's one I'm particularly proud of. Holbrook & Co. Worcestershire sauce. I must have spent 6 hours cleaning it to preserve what little label was left and I don't think I lost more than 2% of that.PS: I was maybe 10.[attachment=holbrook.jpg]

 

[sunrunner]

just one of many