Collecting antique bottles

[Detroit Mudpuppy]

Hi NH awesome Bunker Hill bottle, never seen that one before, great colour too! Is there anyting in particular that your collecting?

Thanks to everyone who has posted their bottle finds. Some great items and stories. When I get some spare time i will clean up some of the items I found during the summer and post some photos.

 

[modo diver]

Hello dive NH

I'm over in Albany New York and we will be diving for old bottles both in the Schroon river and Lake George this Saturday. I have a camp on the lake if you want to come in Friday night and stay over. Some friends who dive the rivers down in NJ are coming up to dive. We have dove for bottles down in the Virgin Islands as well. Give me a call Ed Pieper (Modo diver) 518 859 5594

 

[lowviz]

Tried to upload a couple pics of some nice finds but was unable to because of the file size, is there a way of converting the picture format so they will upload?

I use Picture Publisher Looks like this link points to a free download??? (I have a licensed copy.) Very powerful program, sometimes hard to figure out. Easy for what you want to do, just load the image and 'save as' using the size, format, and resolution you want.

 

[dive nh]

Hi Modo, thanks for the invite, sorry for not getting back to you. I work every weekend at the fire house so all of my diving is during the week. I am bogged down with a renovation this winter but I would love to hook up in 2010. Email me at riverdiver@hotmail.com and we can swap photos, stories and sites.

Matt Cox (dive nh) 603-938-5490

 

[dive nh]

Hey Modo, do you or your partners ever recover Stoddard glass?
It is a favorite of mine and my current partner.

This is a photo of my best bottle ever...Dr. Swett's Panacea Exeter, NH

 

[dive nh]

Hi detroit mudpuppy,

The answer to your earlier question is that I collect anything old I find u/w but I prefer Inks, embossed meds and Stoneware.

 

[octotat]

This is my Buccheit Bottling Company brown Coca Cola bottle. Extremely rare. One has sold on Ebay for $800, but it was in much better shape than mine. The Tennessee River Gods let me have this one.

 

[Southern Maine Diver]

Hey gang...

I haven't posted on this subject for a while, but I have been recovering from abdominal surgery and I am bored... bored... bored... I have a lot of free time so I am catching up on some of my favorite forums.

This is an intact Iberian olive jar/Spanish storage jar, decorated with a "palm tree"?, a flying bird, that I found in 55' of water in NH. From what I can tell, it dates from the mid to late 1600's.

Hopefully, I can post the picture correctly,

Wayne

 

[Lee Taylor]

Hello Mudpuppy,

I like finding bottles while diving. I have found a few. The only two I have photos of are in the included pic. I found the blue tinted medicine bottle on a Civil War shipwreck offshore Myrtle Beach SC. I found the deep purple tinted conical ink well in the Cooper River in Charleston SC. I think its fun finding old stuff. You may like the video of the south Florida shipwreck I posted below. It caught my eye.

 

[irishsquid]

This is my Buccheit Bottling Company brown Coca Cola bottle. Extremely rare. One has sold on Ebay for $800, but it was in much better shape than mine. The Tennessee River Gods let me have this one.

Hey octotat! Did you find that in the downtown area? I've made a couple nice finds around the Market St. Bridge, unfortunately the "Tn. River Gods" must have been dipleased with me, my recoveries were abysmal failures. One was a glass globe about the size of a medicine ball with an opened end. (Maybe a street light globe)
It shattered about 3/4s the way out of retrieving from the the bottom.
The other was some kind of ceramic disk about 4" diameter, 2" thick. It had what appeared to be a "key hole" in the center, with a rusted metal pin crossways?
I dropped it and lost it at the surface and couldn't find it on my return to the bottom.
If this rain and flooding ever stops, the bottom should have some interesting things uncovered. Maybe we can get together and do some searching. I hear over at the bluffs, below the museum has turned up some cool medicine bottles.