Showing posts with label antique bottles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label antique bottles. Show all posts

Monday, May 30, 2011

Where are bottles found?


  The single most common question I get when people find out what I do is "Where do you find the bottles?".  To be honest with you the answer could easily be everywhere.  I have discovered them walking through the woods near some old houses buried a few inches under some leaves. I have spent countless days digging 5, 10, even 15 feet underground into some 100 year old town dumps.  I have dug hundreds of outhouse holes long filled in that often have bottles residing in the bottom.  I have even been driving down the road and spotted construction projects with glass shimmering all over the place.  One time I saw a massive tree that fell over and in the root ball about 10 feet off the ground there where 3 very rare local 1890's soda bottles that I needed a ladder to retrieve.  Sometimes great bottles are found in the walls, crawlspaces and attics of old structures. Wherever I go I keep my eyes open and when I least expect it  . . . . . .  Like the time I was walking on the boardwalk in Spring Lake after a storm.  The sand had eroded the dunes and 100 year old bottles where sticking out all over the place!  I took off my shirt, tied off the sleeves and filled my new bag with 20 -25 new acquisitions.