ORIGINAL: cyberdigger
It's easy for bottle people to forget that people who are not bottle people really aren't bottle people.. I mean it takes a seasoned eye to spot a good one from a junker. I'm sure well over 99% of the population does not possess this ability to recognize a good one from a pile of dirty old bottles lyin' around outside.. and most people would not even be curious.. lots of them would have fun breaking them, some would consider them a safety hazard, esp. today's mommies..
..so yes, there are 'unwanted' valuable bottles all over the place...
This is so true. I dive for bottles in Maine. There are many local fishermen that drag the area and often times they pull up bottles. I talked with a few of them and the most common thing they say is that they give the nice colored ones to their wives to stick in the window. They have no clue as to value and don't care. If I'm picking bottles off the bottom that are valued in the hundred's of dollars you know they're dragging them up too. Many times their probably just throwin' them back in the deep.
Alan