Found a nice bottle dump today.

[hemihampton]

They are worth more because they are bocks. Bocks are always rarer. I've fixed much worse cans then those pictured. LEON.

 

[Robby Raccoon]

What of the fact half of one can is missing? Also, why are there two holes punched in the bottom of the one can?
I like the can you have there.

 

[hemihampton]

As long as a front half looks good some don't care if back is gone or 1 big hole, if a rare can I can fix the big hole or back missing. LEON.

 

[Robby Raccoon]

How do you "fix" a totally gone piece? It wouldn't be exactly something easy to replace?

 

[bottlerocket]

Good finds Bear. My picks have slowed down. It is nice to see others finding stuff and posting. Thanks

 

[Robby Raccoon]

Well get on out there more and keep your eyes scanning all around! If I had my camera with me, I'd have photographed the mouth to an early 1900s (shattered) Coca-Cola bottling Co. bottle I found the other day as it was sticking out of a hillside; the good stuff is out there, just hidden. Not too often it's like my first milk bottle (a good one at that!) which was sitting as if on a pedestal of mud in the forest one day (the mud seemed to be a mound, as if it were rising) for me to find as I evaded the odd-ball stalker. :/
Thanks. It's just whatever the anti-environmental mindset of the day had people throwing out into their yards or, like the '50s cans, by the airport where all else including a totally demolished bike were strewn about. All the glass was shattered, including some I could recognize as fun-to-find pieces. They really made a mess of things.

 

[RED Matthews]

Spirit Robet I have been enjoying your involvement of digging, I have been trying to make evaluations of glass bottles that were turned in the mold to reduce the mold seams. My study has been increased and developed quickly when I was studying glass applied handles, When I worked for Thatcher Glass, I was involved with a lot of glass forming problems that involved forming problems on the glass machine functions. Handles were often a trouble makerl to get them to fill with glass properly, Another big problem was making a lot of the Avon bottles where the parison glass was set off from the neck forming. Like their duck bottle and the deer bottle for after shave lotion. Off setting the parison to the side presented gravity interference that made a lot of chalange, I started collecting at the age of eight or nine. And after visiting to see how they made that milk bottle,, I ended up working for Thatcher's 33 years later. So now I have had 77+ years of studying bottle making mysteries - developed by the people that made them hand blownl.I am now 85 and getting near the end, for certain.Do you know of any marks in glass you have found, that present bottle mysteries of why or how they were created? It is a great hobby - for sure. RED Matthews

 

[Robby Raccoon]

This little bottle with the big swirl in it is a curiosity (and a bubble on either side, which reminds me of Yin and Yang.) All I have really that is un-ordinary in bottles. Unless a few bubbles in a '60s Crush bottle count. Those are small and few, but more than most of my 1940s+ bottles. As for Avon bottles, I have one that isn't a figural piece. I mentioned it before on the site. But! I do have a question on the construction of an insulator in my collection. I will show more pictures soon. I don't know if you can see it, so I will draw on it in Paint (computer program) to show it more (how it seems to be made.)

 

[Robby Raccoon]

Here is the insulator. The red is symbolizing the seams on the insulator. None of my other similar (Patent May 2 1893) insulators are created the same way. They just have the one seam. It's quite clear also that there are many swirls on the surface of the glass, which gives it awesome character.

 

[logueb]

Spirit Bear, Just read through the entire thread. I have dug many dumps that are in this age range. It appears from the posts and photos that this dump could range from as early as the 30's thru the 70's. (Just a guess). Great thread and a good start in bottle collecting. Love those Paul sodas. They appear to be possibly art deco bottles. A few years ago I did an extensive research on Google patents on art deco soda patents. When I get time I'll see if I have that bottle patent listed. Hope you have many more exciting trips to that dump. Buster