Antique Bottles Online Community
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This forum is an antique bottle forum where collectors, diggers, traders and anybody with an interest in antique bottles meet. Connect with other members of the forum and find digging partners. Discuss about antique bottles made before 1900s and after 1900s. Find advice on cleaning and repairing the bottles you found and how to display your antique bottles along with sharing great photographs.
Antique Bottles Online Community
6h ago
One wouldn't normally consider January in Illinois to be conducive to the discovery and digging of bottles, but in the past few weeks I've made out quite well.
A little while back I had been digging in my 1920s dump and pulled some nice local milks, sodas, a BIM druggist I needed, and found a Sterling silver spoon in the creek adjacent to the spot. Pretty good haul considering the location and age. Pics may be posted later, but I am far more excited about the more recent chain of events...
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Antique Bottles Online Community
1d ago
Here are a few good links for investigating various common (non-bottle) digging finds.
For lamps, kerosene heaters etc...:
http://www.milesstair.com/
http://www.earlycat.com/
https://artoluys.com/index.php/en/
http://www.aladdinlamps.info/index.htm
http://www.lumieredeloeil.com/lumiara/en/index.html
https://www.oldcopper.org/index.php
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For Bricks: (specifically from New York)
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Antique Bottles Online Community
1d ago
So I was able to pick up a bottle from my hometown of Camillus about 2-3 weeks ago. In that 2-3 weeks, I've been trying to do as much research as possible, but I cannot find any info...
Any help is much appreciated!
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Antique Bottles Online Community
3d ago
This little bottle has 3 colors of enamel painting reading “TWO DRINKS”. It’s 4 1/2” tall with a max diameter of about 2 1/2”. My question is this: would this be called a miniature backbar bottle ..read more
Antique Bottles Online Community
3d ago
Im going crazy trying to find info on this bottle. Is it possible that its the only one ..read more
Antique Bottles Online Community
4d ago
Antique Bottles Online Community
4d ago
After 10 Years of trying to obtain this Bottle I finally acquired it. wasn't a easy task. I once dug a broken busted up Quart version in about 10 pieces & only half there. Been wanting a whole one ever since. As far as I know this is the only one known to exist in quart size. Gotta be others out there somewhere? The smaller pint size I dug myself & also extremely rare in amber color but a small handful known which is not many. Past owner did a very nice job of Painting the embossing in...
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