As a kid I got to dig a couple priveys with my dad. Remember finding a couple inkwells and a whiskey bottle. My dad collected for 40 years, he dug at old city dumps and priveys his prized bottle was a snuff bottle he found in the mangroves in the Florida keys. Guessing it came off a ship wreck. When he passed his collection was split 3 ways. I ended up with the snuff bottle and some black glass that dates to the 1700s. This forum is amazing. Current antique cabinets with some glass on top.
Eric Schamell I would have brought as many of those creams home as I could carry! So many possibilities.
I have a neighbor that has a bottle that can over in a ship. Looks very similar in shape to a modern bottle except that it had a round bottom instead of a flat bottom...made to lay on its side rather than stand up. Pretty cool!
My dad has a relatively extensive bottle collection also. He also tells stories of he and his brother blasting hundreds of antique bottles and crocks to smithereens with there rifles as boys!
Yep, been there, done that. My grandma used to get so mad. She was a bottle hunter. Now I understand why she got so angry.
We used to find similar ones in coastal Georgia. The Community College there (archaeology club) said these were ale bottles that came over as ballast in ships. They were shaped that way to lay flat in the bilge. Most of ours had raised letters that said "Belfast Dublin and Cochran". Many bottles had the letters almost worn down because the working of the hull would grind the bottles against each other.
No...but I like that one. The bottle had a more rounded bottom and I believe was not clear glass. I can’t seem to recall exactly, but I was told its been in his family for a long, long time and supposedly came over on a wooden ship in the 1600’s.
https://firewoodhoardersclub.com/forums/posts/1297815/bookmark Found this broken bottle in my woods while out cutting.
More random bottle finds today while scouting for wood. I came across an old homesite on a hill at the edge of the woods. Nothing left but the cellar hole and stone foundation. There was a small bottle dump next to the stones and I was able to snag a few that were still intact. Nice colors No idea how old they are. According to the 1934 aerial view, the house was there and it was open field. Looking at the size of the trees, it was probably abandoned in the 50s.
During the height of the pandemic late 2020, did well that day and the first time I brought a friend with me to help dig, he wasn't really a collector, so any bottles he dug and were of interest to me, he gave to me, worked out well but I did let him have some other cool bottles and jars that he and I dug that day. I mainly collect NDNR beers and sodas, earlier the better....
