POLL: What type of 'bottle person' are you?

[RICKJJ59W]

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[Hulingirl]

3,6,and 9[]

 

[Icebar]

I live 45 minutes from Corning. I've visited the Corning Museum of Glass ( CMoG) many times. I really enjoy coming across their old stuff in antique shops. Makes a real connection for me.

 

[glass man]

Like most say it is hard to pick just one..but I did pick one..number 1!JAMIE

 

[pinxbinx]

I am brand new to this, but I don't care what they are worth, although I want to know what they are worth. I love their history and feel like each has a story. I also am particularly interesting in the ones that look pretty or unique. It could be worth a lot and me not like it if it looks ordinary or boring (not that many fall into this category). I'm not terribly into old soda bottles though. I didn't click this one, but I am not just into bottles. If I find something old and unique, then I'm perfectly happy. In all honesty though, it doesn't matter how old it is, if it beautiful, then I want to keep it.

 

[RICKJJ59W]

Welcome Pinx

I hope that is not your first name []

I dont care what stuff is worth either. i LIKE TO DIG BOTTLES MORE THEN COLLECT THEM if that makes any seance.

 

[VTdigger]

more on how bottles connect me to history is my love of local bottles ( Bennington VT.) I save any shard or local pharmacist or milk bottles just to learn of the different sizes and shapes the local merchants had there bottles made in like the other day, I was on lunch break by the Walloomsac river in Bennington and found a shard of a half pint milk bottle from the Hewitt farms which ran from 1917-50. I had seen pictures on the Bennington historical society's site of bottles from this dairy with an applied color label. So I always wondered if they had an embossed bottle from earlyer in there operation so it was nice to know there is an embossed bottle from this farm out there. I made a list of all the local dairies who had a bottle from the 1920's-60's my goal is to find at least one bottle from each local dairy both embossed and colored label.

 

[RED Matthews]

Well after retirement, I decided to learn about how glass bottles and products were made before 1900. In reality this ment: how they were made in the mouth blown period of production. I have read every old glass making book I could get my hands on and got enough understanding of methods used to recognize the marks and characteristics of these older bottles. I was especially interested with the case gin bottle development to keep up with the demand. And then secondly with the SARATOGA Mineral Water bottles - here again because the demand for them exceeded the methods of getting them made. Need initiated changes that I could recognize and zero in on when things happened; like the chilling of the cast iron mold cavity iron and it's effect of almost eliminating the thing they used to call whittle in a bottle made in an iron mold. It helps to let the bottle you study tell you about how it was made. RED Matthews

 

[UncleBruce]

I guess I am obsessed with online cataloging. Terrible word that OBSESSED.

 

[MINNESOTA DIGGER]

3 9 10