What was that first bottle you found that got you hooked?

[adshepard]

So what was the first bottle you found that got you hooked? Mine was this nice Dr. Manly Hardy's - Jaundice Bitters - Bangor, ME that I pulled from the waters of Eastport, Maine. Haven't found something as good since but I've been plenty happy with what I have found.

Alan

 

[Jim]

Mine was a common small-size clear Vapo-Cresolene poison. It was lying right on the ground along the river. I was 11 years old. To this day, it's worth maybe $5 on a good day, but it got me hooked! I still have it. When I find those things today, I often give them away, but that first one will always be special. ~Jim

 

[wvhillbilly]

Mine was an old Schmulbach Brewing Co bottle I found in the yard, I had found some ACLs before that but they never quite hooked me.

 

[bearswede]

The bottles that stand out from my diggin days (back in the early '70's), are:

Bogles Hyperion Fluid For The Hair
Cardinal inks
C.A Richards (unlabled bitters)
Congress & Empire Spring (Saratoga M.W.)

Ron

 

[tiqhuntr]

Hey Bear; We must be close to the same age. My "hook" was in '68. I was helping my father paint his house, 15th of August. I had killed 4 squirrels that morning and told him I wanted to run out to the edge of town and complete my limit of 5 and be back to help. There was a huge hickory in the front of the woods that always had squirrels in it so that is where I headed. One was cutting on a nut and as I was backing around looking up I heard a crunch that sounded like glass. I glanced down and there was this blue bottle. After getting the squirrel I decided to take the bottle and see if he would like it. It was a strong cobalt open pontil with ground glass stopper. There was some others so I added them to the game bag and headed home. Dad was 15 foot up the ladder painting the eave when I sad "Dad check out this old bottle I just found". He came down the ladder faster than any squirrel I have ever seen unassing a tree. Painting was over and we went to the site and dug it out that day. I am hooked for life. Don't dig much any more, but since I have found this site I am getting the bug again.

 

[capsoda]

Back in 67 or 68 I found an amber chemical bottle and a Real McCoy oiler cup. Shortly after a dam broke on a lake near by and revealed bottles from one end to the other from 1930s back to the early 1800s.

 

[bottlenutboy]

the ones that got me werent mine and were found in the 70's they were my uncles he brought some to my house for some reason or other and i just fell in love they are mostly commons he had about 250 then and now he has more than that that was in 2005 so im still a "newbie" i guess but i know more than the average bear because in all that time i have dedicated my whole life to research and trying to find more i have learned a very huge portion of what is known about crown soda's which is where my real passion lies although i do collect other things that i find interesting

 

[madman]

ithink it was a fletchers castoria and a sauders extract sticking straight up out of the ground mike

 

[Road Dog]

Back in 1972 dug a SS Coca Cola Elizabeth City N.C.

 

[bottlenutboy]

the first "good" bottle that i personally dug was a fletcher's castoria ca. 1890s in a TOC dump where everything was busted