Hey all! Here's the deal...I just started last week. I went to this place my husband suggested where from partying as a teen he knew there were bottles there I could use to put my homemade perfumes in. Well, we found out you DONT put ANYTHING in them later that night before I touched them, because one bottle was a perfume atomizer in worn condition and I got curious and looked it up, then ran into the knowledge that ALL the bottles were antiques and worth atleast something and not to mess with them and basically, that I found my a new hobby (instead of bottles for my perfume), lol. Anyways...
The location has litterally hundreds of bottles. From all categories; medecine, minerals, food, liquer, soda, etc..etc...and all categories contain bottles of all sizes; small, medium, large...And big jugs of clear and amber color. We have only just scratched the surface and already have over a hundred bottles. Tiny wee little ones to a couple inches to medium to tall. The atomizer I mentioned before was unexpected and is a devilbiss tha tI have searched litterally hours for and cannot find that one anywhere, but the paint is worn on it. There are clear, blue, aqua, brown-amber, and green bottles in all categories, and some old broken pottery as well as a few metal things like a 12" metal pourer of some kind, a thermometer (circle) and hundreds of doorknobs. Some of the alcohol bottles are prohibition era and some I have absolutely no idea. some are only embossed on the bottom with symbols and no other markings or labels or nothing. I dont know what they are or how to find out. We also found old B&M Baked Beans amber jugs, amber clorox jugs, moonlight bleach jugs with sun and rays on front (large jug). I just know that there are three spots so far all three about eight feet wide, over a large land space, and as your walking, you can tell the chicken wire and ground beneath you is covered in chicken wire and the whole land is filled and there are atleast a few hundred more if not upwards of a thousand. But I dont know of worth anything since nothing but symbol on bottom of some, others very pretty and some obvious (such as Lestoil and a green turpentine bottle and JR Watkins 4 1/2 in. square medecine bottle).
So my questions are:
1. Is this a typical amount of bottles to be found at a dig site? Or does it sound like I got really lucky and found a gold mine by chance for my first dig? I know I'll be a LONG time emptying the grounds. Probly months. What is the typical amount of a dump or area that one finds when lucky enough to find a location with bottles to dig?
2. How do I find out what the markings are on my bottles when there's no other anything at all on the bottle? No name etc.
3. Is there a site that directly tells you what you have without having to google everything a thousand times only to get close or a "maybe that's it" answer.
4. Any free appraisal sites?
5. No one will probly tell me, I know if I knew any I probly wouldnt, but Anyone know of any digging sites in cumberland/york/oxford county my husband and I could check out?
6. My husband thinks I am overegzaterating(sp?) the money in this. Isnt that funny for a husband who dont want me to have to get a regular job, lol. I said to him as I was grabbing a bottle off the ground, "If you saw a twenty dollar bill on the ground would u just walk right on by it or would u take 2 secs to pick it up? He didnt say anything much. I think he was still stewing over me saying earlier "I just made in an hour your whole weeks wages if what the internet said is right, lmao. Really one shouldnt say that to a very hardworking husband but he was being annoying, lol...Anyhow, am I overestimating the money we mightve found, if only there at that location?
7. From what I've already said...How much are those bottles I mentioned worth?, if u the reader, know or have an average, Please.
8. And finally....ANY INFO ON THAT DEVILBISS PERFUME ATOMIZER? It's in NO way in the beautiful condition of other amazing things I've seen on antique perfume bottle sites (such as auntjudysattic, etc...) but it is that same company, is pinted blue with six sides and gold cross hatching in a see through strip across the middle. It's all in tact but has a crack from temp change ( I didnt know better till yesterday [
]) and has a slight crack in brass part where bag would attach and paint is worn, but glass is in tact together, and all brass is too. I think its beautiful. BUT I CANT FIND A PICTURE OF IT ANYWHERE!... HELP!!!! []...
Thankyou all who read all this and can provide some desperately wanted help and advice! I am terribly sorry it is so long, but for a first post I wanted to get it all out there at once, show some charecter, and BEG for answers and then the rest of my posts qill be normal. THANKYOU!
I am ABSOLUTELY the most excited about this new found hobby I ever could be about one!!!!
You may IM me at LittleAquarianWoman on yahoo.
The location has litterally hundreds of bottles. From all categories; medecine, minerals, food, liquer, soda, etc..etc...and all categories contain bottles of all sizes; small, medium, large...And big jugs of clear and amber color. We have only just scratched the surface and already have over a hundred bottles. Tiny wee little ones to a couple inches to medium to tall. The atomizer I mentioned before was unexpected and is a devilbiss tha tI have searched litterally hours for and cannot find that one anywhere, but the paint is worn on it. There are clear, blue, aqua, brown-amber, and green bottles in all categories, and some old broken pottery as well as a few metal things like a 12" metal pourer of some kind, a thermometer (circle) and hundreds of doorknobs. Some of the alcohol bottles are prohibition era and some I have absolutely no idea. some are only embossed on the bottom with symbols and no other markings or labels or nothing. I dont know what they are or how to find out. We also found old B&M Baked Beans amber jugs, amber clorox jugs, moonlight bleach jugs with sun and rays on front (large jug). I just know that there are three spots so far all three about eight feet wide, over a large land space, and as your walking, you can tell the chicken wire and ground beneath you is covered in chicken wire and the whole land is filled and there are atleast a few hundred more if not upwards of a thousand. But I dont know of worth anything since nothing but symbol on bottom of some, others very pretty and some obvious (such as Lestoil and a green turpentine bottle and JR Watkins 4 1/2 in. square medecine bottle).
So my questions are:
1. Is this a typical amount of bottles to be found at a dig site? Or does it sound like I got really lucky and found a gold mine by chance for my first dig? I know I'll be a LONG time emptying the grounds. Probly months. What is the typical amount of a dump or area that one finds when lucky enough to find a location with bottles to dig?
2. How do I find out what the markings are on my bottles when there's no other anything at all on the bottle? No name etc.
3. Is there a site that directly tells you what you have without having to google everything a thousand times only to get close or a "maybe that's it" answer.
4. Any free appraisal sites?
5. No one will probly tell me, I know if I knew any I probly wouldnt, but Anyone know of any digging sites in cumberland/york/oxford county my husband and I could check out?
6. My husband thinks I am overegzaterating(sp?) the money in this. Isnt that funny for a husband who dont want me to have to get a regular job, lol. I said to him as I was grabbing a bottle off the ground, "If you saw a twenty dollar bill on the ground would u just walk right on by it or would u take 2 secs to pick it up? He didnt say anything much. I think he was still stewing over me saying earlier "I just made in an hour your whole weeks wages if what the internet said is right, lmao. Really one shouldnt say that to a very hardworking husband but he was being annoying, lol...Anyhow, am I overestimating the money we mightve found, if only there at that location?
7. From what I've already said...How much are those bottles I mentioned worth?, if u the reader, know or have an average, Please.
8. And finally....ANY INFO ON THAT DEVILBISS PERFUME ATOMIZER? It's in NO way in the beautiful condition of other amazing things I've seen on antique perfume bottle sites (such as auntjudysattic, etc...) but it is that same company, is pinted blue with six sides and gold cross hatching in a see through strip across the middle. It's all in tact but has a crack from temp change ( I didnt know better till yesterday [
]) and has a slight crack in brass part where bag would attach and paint is worn, but glass is in tact together, and all brass is too. I think its beautiful. BUT I CANT FIND A PICTURE OF IT ANYWHERE!... HELP!!!! []...Thankyou all who read all this and can provide some desperately wanted help and advice! I am terribly sorry it is so long, but for a first post I wanted to get it all out there at once, show some charecter, and BEG for answers and then the rest of my posts qill be normal. THANKYOU!
I am ABSOLUTELY the most excited about this new found hobby I ever could be about one!!!!
You may IM me at LittleAquarianWoman on yahoo.
