your oldest bottle

[southern Maine diver]

Well, maybe it was for the seafood...

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[southern Maine diver]

Either way, here is my oldest piece... it's not a bottle but I did find it in 55 feet of water.[&:]

Wayne



Iberian olive jar/Spanish storage/olive jar

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[capsoda]

Yeap, You won't see no weird stuff on this forum pilgram.

 

[capsoda]

Welcome to the forum. My oldest piece is a 1000 year old Chinese jar with lid I got from a friend. Not really a bottle.

This piece is not a bottle either but I dug it up about 20 years ago. It's a childs toy pitcher that was made around 1800 and was pretty common back then. I have seen several broken ones but this is the only whole one I've seen.

 

[cowseatmaize]

My oldest is probably one of my Stoddards, say 1820's-50's. The scrolls are said to be 1830's to about 60. I like the ones I can narrow down a bit though. My Westford Glass is 1857-73 and my original Poland Water is 1876-78.

 

[Miles]

HAHAHAHA man that's funny...

Nice scroll flask..and Wayne, what type of Wine is that?

 

[cowseatmaize]

Trying not to break it; is that your bottle washer I see?

 

[amblypygi]

Here are my two oldest (bought on the left and dug/found on the right). The oldest one is the bought one, which I got at a yard sale at a house built in 1820. It had an electric lamp holder in the neck and I got it before the yardsale started for a buck []

From what I've been able to research, it's probably from France and was blown around 1730-1750. It was possibly brought to America around that time and eventually ended up in this farmhouse where it stayed until I bought it. This is all conjecture of course, but the guy who owns the house now is a direct decendant of the builder, and he says the bottle had been in the attic (with it's lamp thing) for as long as he could remember (he's in his 70s). If anyone has more reliable information I'd love to hear it. It has a huge neck; a quarter would fit in without even touching the sides.

My oldest found or dug bottle is on the right, it's an unembossed medicine from the 1840/50s. I found that one in the Connecticut River within a mile of the house where I bought the other one! It was lying on a sandy bottom, completely un-buried, and all by itself, pretty weird. We eventually found an old dump on the bank about 100 yards upstream, but haven't managed to get back there for another dive because it's a real pain of an area to get to, lot's of very shallow water to get past. Everything we did manage to find there the one day we went was either broken or 1910, so we haven't been inspired to get back. Probably should though, it's only about a mile from my house as well.

Good thread, let's see some more old bottle pics []

Sean

 

[cowseatmaize]

Huh, I bought my IP cathedral pickle as a lamp. I paid $35 for it in 1975 dollars though.

 

[Ye Olde Prospector]

Here's my oldest dug bottle. It's a wide mouth case bottle, free blown, open pontil and very thin witout a chip or scratch. Believed to date between 1770-1810 probably of Dutch origin. Sometimes used to ship apothecary medicines etc. Dug this one here in Bath,Maine 5-6 years ago, one of my favorites. Not for sale.

Cliff