Your oldest bottles

[carobran]

Whats the oldest bottle you've got?

 

[cyberdigger]

1700s onion wine flask is my oldest.. one time I touched an ancient Roman bottle and I could swear for a few days afterwards I had a 2000 year old feeling on my fingers..

 

[cyberdigger]

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[JohnN]

The oldest bottles I have are late 1890s to early 1910s slicks, an Edward Maher bottle, and Puritas Mineral water bottle. These were all BIM. It is, as far as I know, impossible to tell which of these is the oldest. I only know they are late 90s to early 10s.

 

[JOETHECROW]

Probably my oldest, (unless I think of another....[] ) Dug it myself in the early 80's...

 

[beendiggin]

This small decanter is from the late 1700s I am told. Got it at the Salvation Army thrift store. Nice pontil you dug there Joe!

 

[earlyglass]

This nice little 1720s mallet wine is probably my oldest.

 

[JOETHECROW]

ORIGINAL: beendiggin

This small decanter is from the late 1700s I am told. Got it at the Salvation Army thrift store. Nice pontil you dug there Joe!

The onion and mallet style bottles are vr. cool, but relatively unatainable to me unless I get real lucky at an auction...Paul, the decanter is 'wicked' cool,[] Has anyone been able to give you much info on it? Thrift store eh? That's pretty great.

 

[baltbottles]

Mine would be this 1760s French or Belgian wine, shown with two pieces of contemporary or slightly earlier English slipware recovered from the same early privy.

Chris

 

[capsoda]

I have some 1800 to Civil War era stuff somewhere but this is the oldest thing I can put my hands on at this time.

I do have this childs toy pitcher. I was digging a footer in downtown Pensacola and it pooped out. I looked for info on it for years with out any luck. I have seen others but always missing the handle and spout. One day when I was visiting my grand dads sister I noticed one on her shelves where she kepted her tiny porclain do-dads. She told me that she got it from her great aunt when she was 4. Her great aunt got it from her great aunt, when she was 4, who got it from her mother when she was 4. The lady who recieved it from her mother was born in the late 1700s.

It was made of red clay as can be seen around the top.