Bottles

[circleb54]

Just picked up several older glass bottles was wondering if should keep them or dispose of them they are all the brown glass one says barrel of beer, one says Jax,one is a dads old fashion root beer, one is schlitz and the last one says red stripe beer

[brandeek1]

My 15 yr old daughter keeps bottles of all kinds. Prolly aren't much but she keeps collecting anyhow.

[halfbreed]

heck they just look good sittin on the shelf . and you never know. ever watch the roadshow, some are worth keepin ive got several i found around the old farm . the house that i lived in was built in 1897 .

[circleb54]

heck they just look good sittin on the shelf . and you never know. ever watch the roadshow, some are worth keepin ive got several i found around the old farm . the house that i lived in was built in 1897 .

I never watched that show but have run across alot of them and never picked them up but guess I might build a shelf and just pick them up cause they do look pretty good

[jimco]

I started finding really old bottles in the swamps in South Louisiana when I was a young kid ( 40 yrs. ago )  I would find one here one there and after sometime I had buckets of bottles. I kept the ones that cleaned up pretty good for display. Most are old Medicine bottles
with names such as "Groves Tasteless Chill Tonic",  "Dr. W.A. Caldwell's Cure All". All the medicine bottles are cork top bottles and date back to the 1800's.  The green coke bottle is super heavy real thick glass. It has " Morgan City Bottling and Ice House" embossed on the bottom. You said one of the bottles you found was a Schlitz bottle. Schlitz made some Redish bottles Called Ruby Red Schlitz bottles that were highly collectible but the paper label has to be in good shape.

[SCHitemHard]

ive got some real old stuff too, even got some depression glass wear and old mason jars

[circleb54]

No label on that bottle

[circleb54]

The dads root beer has the twist off top back on it and one of the others has it's cork pushed inside the bottle

[jdt]

the groves chill tonic came from paris tn , my home town . they named the high school after him , and supposedly it had the first ag - ffa program in the nation .

  my grandma has an old groves bottle from the thirties with the label stil on it , it says " makes children as fat as pigs " .

i bet that stuff probly wouldn't sell nowdays !  hahaha

[jimco]

This is a very old canning jar with a galvanized screw on lid. Embossed on the bottle is " BALL  THE PERFECT MASON". I found it in the swamp at an old cypress logging camp that was in operation around 1910. There wasn't a speck of rust on the lid.

[SCHitemHard]

jimco thats the same kind of jars ive found around my old place, got maybe 10 in near perfect condition

[Reuben]

that lid on the mason jar appears to be made from an alloy that does not rust...probably has lead in it.

[halfbreed]

jimco if i was a gamblin man i'd bet that jar mighta had a little moonshine in it 

[jimco]

halfbreed, you probably right. The mason jar was found along with a lot of unmarked wine and whiskey bottles. Most of the bottles I have found were either too stained to clean up or the necks were broke. The ones I have kept are the intact ones that cleaned up pretty well.

[jimco]

Here are a few more of my favorite antique bottles I found in the swamps. The long neck bottle is a beer bottle . It has some barley leaves embossed on it with the words " PABST MILWAUKEE " on it.  The cobalt blue bottle is a Milk Of Magnesia bottle . It has
Reg. U.S. Pat. Off. The Charles H. Phillips Chemical Company , Glenbrook, Conn. embossed on it.   The small bottle is a Vaseline jar.
It has " VASOLINE CHEESEBROUGH NEW YORK " embossed on it.

[jimco]

circleb54, brandeek1, and SCHitemHard,  Some really nice bottles to collect and they are easier to acquire and are just as valuable or
acl soda bottles. ACL stands for applied color label. It was the painted label soda bottles, you know like 7 UP , Dr. Pepper, NEHI, etc.

[wilton]

X2, on all the pics. i've started holding onto some of the same many yrs. ago along with items made of real wood, metal, leather,etc. 'cause the way things agoing all will become extinct, replaced by plastic, rubber, cardboard,etc.