What’s your favorite beer bottle surface find?

[Tony Kendzior]

This was a surface find some 50 years ago, in an area that had been phosphate mined in the late 1800s in north central Florida. This bottle, along with whiskey bottles, early Cokes, Chero Colas, medicine bottles of every description just lying around. There's no embossing on it so I'm not sure it is a beer, but I've always thought of it that way because of it's shape. It's a 3 part mold and the pontil area is 1 inch deep. It's heavy, about 9 inches tall and 2.5 inches in diameter. Guesses anyone?

 

[GLASSHOPPER55]

Not a beer, but a soda/mineral water, but I found this about 10 years ago back behind where an old house burnt down just laying on top of the ground . I could not believe it. I still haven't been able to identify where the bottler was in town, it is a rare local. I returned and dug about a half-dozen other bottles out of the ground among a lot of broken shards and bricks.

 

[Stephengriffin93]

Found this top ground in one of my dumps, 1890s blob top beer

 

[Stephengriffin93]

This was a surface find some 50 years ago, in an area that had been phosphate mined in the late 1800s in north central Florida. This bottle, along with whiskey bottles, early Cokes, Chero Colas, medicine bottles of every description just lying around. There's no embossing on it so I'm not sure it is a beer, but I've always thought of it that way because of it's shape. It's a 3 part mold and the pontil area is 1 inch deep. It's heavy, about 9 inches tall and 2.5 inches in diameter. Guesses anyone?View attachment 203791View attachment 203792

Very early 1850s-1860s

 

[hemihampton]

If Construction site finds qualify here I Literally have a 100 of those. many that have read my post over the years know that. I did find this Hutch (and others elsewhere) under a small crawlspace under the rear of a house after house was torn down. This area was untouched by the demolition. LEON.

 

[sandchip]

Two notable "surface" beer finds in my career, the "Petersen" porter was exposed on sandbar after a flood 30 years ago (won a race with my brother to claim it), the "Mason & Burns" top was protruding from mud on bank of the Chickahominy River. Have found numerous crown top on surface and a few blobs/loops. Did also find alot of good surface stuff when I was kid on banks of Ohio River, good times...

That Petersen is nothing short of hellacious. Great looking bottle. I'd love to see more pictures of that baby.

 

[hemihampton]

Found this super Rare Herzbergs Bitters laying in the dirt after they tore a house down. LEON.

 

[sandchip]

Sweet!

 

[Geolog_Digger]

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[Geolog_Digger]

Helloooo everyone,
I found this blob top beer bottle from Halifax (N.S) on a surface but in a construction site where i had worked.
I love it even if i have no idea about it value.