Utility bottles

[annie44]

Another reason I can't have demijohns sitting around my house anymore.....(thanks for indulging me on this one - I happen to love the little guy and I know you've already seen him before!)

 

[tigue710]

no, couldnt stay mad at him for long after breaking a prize demi! I thought I saw a purple tinge to that baby... guess not! sweet all the same though...

 

[NCdigger5]

Great bottles! What a set of choppers on that dog!

 

[beendiggin]

Love those bottles..here's a shot of two I dug together..the amber one is stoddard, and both are open pontil.

 

[capsoda]

Great finds Cindy. You can get many more pontiled utilities and puff than you can demijohns and in many more colors. Also unless beasty there learns how to fly they can be displayed out of reach. He looks so innocent. [sm=rolleyes.gif]

 

[annie44]

Nice pair of utilities, Paul! I find it hard to believe that a flared lip bottle can survive being buried - they are so fragile!

You're right, Warren - the variety of utility bottles out there is endless, and pretty affordable, if you like the unembossed ones, which I do. Chase can't fly yet, but he is a surprisingly good jumper - and despite those big choppers, he is not a bit fierce - he is 70 pounds of pure affection!

 

[beendiggin]

The story of those undamaged bottles is this...I was probing in the basement of an old house...it had a dirt floor. Apparently there had been at one time a wooden floor over the dirt which had rotted away. Someone had been lifting a short floorboard up and dropping the bottles underneath. Thats how they survived undamaged, along with these others. I also got an aqua Harrisons, which I sold, and some dozen others, but these 4 I kept.