New to bottle collecting

[Backyard goldmine]

So I’ve always thought bottles were cool but I have always assumed I would never find any bottles worth keeping or selling. Well it turns out I am literally standing on what has turned out to be a gold mine for old bottles. Hundreds of them I have already uncovered. All in one piece and many of them with cork that I have been able to save. (Not sure if that matters) Now I am trying to learn how to identify bottles with no makers mark and what to do with 30 Heinz ketchup bottles from 1919. Any advice?

 

[Backyard goldmine]

Ok. Here are 72 of the bottles. The pictures with 4 and 5 bottles are bottles that are hand blown

 

[embe]

Cool finds. you think it was once an old dump? Store? Saloon?

 

[Backyard goldmine]

Cool finds. you think it was once an old dump? Store? Saloon?

Ok. Here’s the best information I can give. There is a file on the edge of my property. My property used to be in the tidal zone. I can’t find when the dike was made. Under water at high tide. All the bottles I’ve found and been able to date because of makers marks are pre 1930. This morning I was moving dirt around with my shovel and hit a layer of “felt paper” or “land scraping cloth” for lack of a better term. The 6 bottles I found this morning were just under that cloth. About 6”-9” below what grade is now. Clay is about another foot down. I’ve found some very old copper plumbing of some kind. An older sink faucet, about 6 soles of shoes, some bricks and a 1 inch diameter round light bulb. The bad part is that most of what I’ve dug up was with a back hoe so I don’t have too much detail about what was around the bottles in most of the ditch.