Favorite Find That You Kept

[Bass Assassin]

That is funny about Gary Owens. When I first researched the Bitter's, all the hits were concerning the latter Owens. (I think spelled Gary Owens, my Bitter's is spelled Garry Owens) When I finally found the information on the Bitter's I was amazed. They ran a full page ad in the 1875 Texas Almanac. This Bitter's cured everything from women's hormonal problems to serpent bite. I printed a copy of the ad and keep it rolled up in the bottle. I do that with any of the Bitter's and quack medicines I have. That way when someone wants to know what the Bitter's was used for they can read the ads.

 

[riverdiver]

I found this back in 2012 while scuba diving for bottles, it is an OP Gothic arched panel cologne witha roman soldier (I believe) on the front panel, it is about 3" high.

 

[digger dun]

One of these colognes was my first pontiled bottle from my first privy...I was going to post it as my favorite find at first as well.

 

[adshepard]

Portland Steamship Company pitcher found in about 40 feet of water.[attachment=Portland-SS-pitcher.jpg]

 

[adshepard]

Portland Steamship Company pitcher found in about 40 feet of water.[attachment=Portland-SS-pitcher.jpg]

 

[RED Matthews]

My first bottle was a 1/2 pint milk given to me my a neighbor farmer that had a lot of cows. I was nine at the time, and my Dad had two cows. My Dad was trying to teach me how to milk our cows. This man had about 20 of them, so I asked him how they milked that many. He showed me through the barn and system - and gave the bottle to drink. When I tried to give him the bottle back - he told me to keep it. I did and it became my first bottle. I asked everyon how it was made, and ended up beitn taken to Thatcher Glass in Elmira. Twenty years later I went to work for Thatdhers as a mold metals engineer. One never knows where a hobby will take you, but I ended up traveling the fowld for 22 or 23 years selling mold metal castings to the worlds glass industry. One never kinows where an interest will take theml - until it does. RED Matthews

 

[hemihampton]

Newmans Golden Fruit Bitters from 1860's. LEON.

 

[RED Matthews]

Well, when I was 11 or 12, my GrandMother found out about my bottle collecting, and she gave me a cold cream jar that she had emptied. It has been my favorite since then. It is clear glass made in a two part mold with rose flowers all over it, and the seam goes accost the bottom. The mold maker that cut that design in the mold iron, had to realize that the mold opening had to do it, without being resisted sticking in the mold when the mold opened. Most of these items were mad in three part molds or differently. The lip was just a little round edge to the sheared off blowpi-e. RED M.