Today's finds.

[Robby Raccoon]

Nothing special, as usual. But they're interesting. The area has only ever turned up one truly nice (although, if I bring it back then I liked it; I'm just saying 'truly nice' by a collector's standards) antiquated bottle--a 1920s milk bottle-- but today I brought back many an item of interest to me--particularly these three. I'll choose the most interesting to talk about first: I don't know date-codes well on these, but lacking a period, wouldn't that make this one 1932? It was in a wooded area topping a hill behind a house. It's a small "HOPPES No9" bottle. Firstly, Hoppes is lacking the apostrophe before the 's'. Secondly, it's a gun cleaning agent or something like that. The base is marked, "4<(I)>2" with a "10." beneath it. The dot after the 10 isn't something I tend to see in an Owens piece. There's an off-center ring around that with how they put it together on the base. The Clarksburg plant made this one, I believe. They died out in '44. Next is an ink I found. "Sanford's / Penit / PEACOCK BLUE" with, once more, yet another error on the glass bottle-- "SANFORDS.", notice it's missing an apostrophe also. The cap is oddly half-legible still. But just barely. The base is marked, "7(I)9 / 3/4 OZ / 7" meaning what year exactly...? It's not following the rules if it's '40s-'50s like my research has presented me, but it's an Owens piece--the Alton plant made this one.
Lastly, for a window display with blue, green, and peach glass, this amber Brockway Machine Bottle Company vial--I think dating to the 1930s (merged in 1933 till it was bought out by none other than Owens.) The B is in a circle and is in the center of the bottle, and above it is "1342", below it is "12 DR." and to it's left is a "1", and to it's right is just a period.
Sorry for the low-quality photos. I have one more post to make on an object I found today.

 

[Robby Raccoon]

The hill by the road is where I found several small bottles. One other seems to be an ink of sorts. It was cracked, but has a glass maker I'd not seen before. There were numerous items in the hill, and it appears it was just used as fill--along with foundry slag-- to keep the hill up. Later I found the Hoppe's and also a screw-top/ crown-top ketchup bottle--I don't recall seeing one function as both. Also a nice but sadly broken milk bottle, a lavender-colored bottle's neck that would have been embossed, a few mean trees trying to impale me, a broken vase of sorts that would have been gorgeous, a bottle that reminded me of a lemon somehow--stippled, but not embossed, so it's in the bottle garden... The Sanford's was in an area full of 1960's-2000's bottles and metal. Odd find among beers. Then some older beer cans. I brought two home because the colors were still good.

This lovely unmarked 1940 Wheat penny I pulled up whilst planting a lilac bush today! It fits in with the time-period of the dump that seems to exist under our yard. Also found a pull tab, the design of which I am unfamiliar with. We have a few hundred Wheaties, I am sure. My grandfather and mother had collected them.

 

[LisaTammy]

Hey Bear, I have all three of those bottles you found today! The Hoppe's No9 is still made today. I was showing my brother the bottle and he brought out a can of it that he uses to clean his gun. By the way there are some Muskegon Brewery beer caps for sale on ebay if you are interested.Lisa

 

[Robby Raccoon]

I know it's still made. But the date codes??? I saw the caps, but only need one. Heh. Thanks for the alert, though.

 

[RED Matthews]

HI, I keep harping on the same old fact. The main objective of my collecting old glass is to study how the hand blown bottles were made. I let the bottles tell me how it was accomplished. I find a lot of mysterious marks, that become bottle mysteries, until I figure out how they were caused. I have many pieces of glass production items, that were made in many different methods; and for many purposes from glass writing pens, to glass walking canes, to all kinds of bottles. I even worked on the making of big military tank windows - but I don't hve one of them because I couldn't move the chunky thing around. RED Matthews

 

[Robby Raccoon]

Red, what do they use in the tank windows? How does it differ? You guys might like my latest additions better. John Graf, and a Supreme--both Hutches.

 

[LisaTammy]

Bear there is an auction for a single cap.Lisa

 

[Robby Raccoon]

Lisa, but what does that cap go for? I'll give them a few peanuts for it.

 

[Robby Raccoon]

This early 1900s medicine bottle (I think) I found on the opposite side of the creek, along with a shattered dump of early 1960s milks and Squirt bottles, an early 1900s but destroyed beer bottle, and a Patent 185(?) fruit jar--I know they kept the same date on them for decades. It was also shattered. I like how they put this bottle together.

 

[RED Matthews]

Tank windows are a really clear glass that is very thick and deep for good bullet stopping,RED M.