Hi everyone.. Yeah, I new at this. Been getting the crash course in Bottle & jar collecting. Learning all about them. We do flea market selling in summer and other stuff. In winter & spring do strap metal. And if we find anything old & cool we save for our flea market & yard sale. We have too much stuff. But we found woods that was old dump sites in 1910 to 1940 era. I mean Old dump sites. They was loaded with metal, and metal gets good prices by us.. signs no one been there for ages... But 4 of them was also Bottle dump sites.. I mean, millions and millions of bottles.. And the Mason Patent Jars started to get our attention... So we started bringing all the old cool ones back home (only when we seen them while getting the metal out). Then Washing them up and see how cool they are, started liking them alot... Then found the purple jars.. then really getting to like even more... First 3 places, mainly just scouted really fast on surface. we need to go back soon... But this 4th place... someone (a while back, not recent). dug 12 foot deep trenches, a few them all over... and I mean the walls are all Bottles.. and go deeper then that... no end in site... Everything we pulling out is emblossed or late 1800's. Found like 20 of the Round bottom (that lay on side) bottles. I still looking things up and figuring out the rough dates. But cool ones after cool ones.. and this place is huge (I bet 5 aces sq, of all bottles and all the trenches we found are deep.. and no end of bottles in site.)... I not kidding when I say, Millions & millions of bottles.. Someone started and quit digging.. I bet because they had no more room for any more... there so many. I think we up to maybe 20,000 bottles & jars this month and that wasn't really trying to dig many out.. That spend little time, pull some of the cool ones.. and bring back some.. we can fill truck loads in a hour.. So my questions is: we broke some old ones by accident with the little hand shovels.. And hard to dig them out by hand, Because bottles on top of bottles and there many broken ones in the ground too... Is there better way to dig them, while being careful with them? Or do you just accept some get broke by accident.. and get what you can? Trying to figure a better way to dig them out carefully. 2.. I done the ebay sales.. That takes work, Used to do high volume of sales ( my feedback was over 50,000)... I got burnt out on that. Do you think opening a store or antique store booth of just old bottles would make money? Because I swear I can come up with millions of 1920's and earlier bottles & jars... And I like them. But where in heck going to put all them.. Like have to sell them, Just to make the money to keep ones I want.. I really do like them.. see why others collect them... So now trying figure where I going to put all them or if they worth just opening something to sell them... so I can keep digging them up and bringing more home.. I need a pole barn..lol