Bottle Digging

Sysbase

Doesn't this kind of collecting take a lot of work for little success? Maybe I'm missing something.

Judgement Day

Sysbase wrote: »

Doesn't this kind of collecting take a lot of work for little success? Maybe I'm missing something.

Gosh, does collecting really take a lot of work? Maybe we should all switch to collecting those really valuable, massed produced, 'limited edition' collectors items like Ty Beanies?

arnhem44

Judgement Day wrote: »

Gosh, does collecting really take a lot of work? Maybe we should all switch to collecting those really valuable, massed produced, 'limited edition' collectors items like Ty Beanies?

Well said Judgement Day,bottle digging isn't going about digging holes all over the place,its by chance you find them unless someone knows where a bottle dump is,if you find something when possibley at work for example and have an interest in such items then its a bonus to find something

arnhem44

Scawgeen wrote: »

I can't see the small bottle very well but it could be a Hair Oil bottle ??? just guessing by the shape. Has it a tiny opening on the top ?

Finally managed to get a close up of this small bottle,had a smell of it again,smells something in the lines of caster oil

Scawgeen

It's not a Hair oil bottle. I think you may have been right it's some kind of medicine bottle. I wouldn't be too keen to go sniffing any unidentified liquid, God only knows what it is. ......or where it's been !

chem

So what about old blue, red and amber bottles used by chemists? Used for poisons etc? Are they the same type of thing?

Degsy

chem wrote: »

So what about old blue, red and amber bottles used by chemists? Used for poisons etc? Are they the same type of thing?

As a general rule if they have ridges and "not to be taken" they contained some kind of poison.
The idea of the ridges is so they could be easily identified by touch in badly-lit rooms before electricity.

dicey reilly

I remember as a child digging up a load of old bottles, myself and my friends brought them up to the local pub and they were very interested in them and wanted to keep them. We brought them home where my Dad promptly dumped them. To this day we still give out to him about throwing out our "treasure"! We all remember seeing an old coca-cola bottle with a "picture" of holy island made out of the glass on it. It is so long ago we may have invented this picture at this stage but has anyone ever seen one like this. The pub was there since 1840. Thanks!

Degsy

dicey reilly wrote: »

I remember as a child digging up a load of old bottles, myself and my friends brought them up to the local pub and they were very interested in them and wanted to keep them. We brought them home where my Dad promptly dumped them. To this day we still give out to him about throwing out our "treasure"! We all remember seeing an old coca-cola bottle with a "picture" of holy island made out of the glass on it. It is so long ago we may have invented this picture at this stage but has anyone ever seen one like this. The pub was there since 1840. Thanks!

Coca Cola was only bottled in 1905 and the famous Coca Cola bottle shape was mass-marketed from the 1930's,peaking in popularity in the 1960's.
I've never heard of a picture of Holy Island on a Coke bottle,and i dont know where holy island is either!:D

Fra73

My bottle has Sullivan on one said and Kilkenny on other said on bottom numbers 3202 then 5.0 and round top like cork ues to seal it

Del.Monte

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