Oak Orchard Acid Springs

[annie44]

Thanks to my new friend and fellow collector Martin Diggins, I have added four (I already had 2) new Oak Orchard bottles to my collection. I'm going to try to talk Marty into adding pics of some of his bottles to this thread because he has an incredible collection including the rare color variants.

 

[annie44]

The picture doesn't do this one justice - it is all bubbles, zillions of them!

 

[annie44]

Rare Alabama Genessee Co N.Y. variant...

 

[annie44]

One is C.W. Merchant, Four are H.W. Bostwick, and the other is the Alabama variant..

 

[annie44]

Now if I can just find an olive yellow and a black one I'll be all set!

 

[annie44]

Last pic...

 

[Gunsmoke47]

WOW! That's all I can say. Great bottles Cindy. There are so many beautiful MW out there. And anywhere from $50.00 to $5000.00! What a great area to collect!! Kelley

 

[JOETHECROW]

During the late 80's My friend from Lockport and I, walked the entire area in the Alabama swamps where the Oak Orchard Spa once stood, (we located it using an actual 18oo's map his father the local historian lent to us) and also using an old marker his dad had left behind years before ,a piece of wire rope around a treetrunk, that had since grown upward and almost elluded us,...anyhow it is all currently a wildlife refuge, and the state had 'sanitized' the site....we DID find one piece of beautiful whittled emerald glass, and some ancient items squirelled away along an old hedgerow of trees....but no Oak orchard bottles,...upon hiking back to our truck,..we stopped and asked the nearby farmer about the place,...he told us two amazing things, one, when he was young, the bottles were piled everywhere and they'd skeet shoot them,..and two, ONE week before, the phone co. guy was in his basement and asked him about two on his basement ledge...and he gave em' to him...he then told us we'd have been more than welcome to them!...
P.S. one week after our trek, the electric co. ditch witch kicked one up out of my friends front yard[] broke it of course..he still has it glued together. Joe

 

[JOETHECROW]

Cindy,...I meant to add that your's are BEAUTIFUL! I was afraid the site would 'time me out', anyhow, I'll have one someday, hell or high water. Joseph

 

[capsoda]

Congrats on the new additions Cindy. They are great looking bottles.[]