BEWARE: i guy from my village once thought he found a ww2 aluminum bottle. He picked it up and opened the lid. Turned out it was not a ww2 bottle but a ww1 clorine gas canister - still sealed. He died of clorine poisoning after opening it up. You probably wont find anything like that in the US, but in Europe you can. So beware people. Also: this hobby is a good way to get some trash out of the woods. Cheers from Slovenia.
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Yikes!! That could have happened to me. When I was a kid I was playing in my aunt’s back yard in Finland, and it had a stream running through it. While I was looking for minnows, I found an old cannon ball. Could have found an old explosive instead, and naturally curious me woulda been a goner. This stuff’s still out there more than you’d expect. Last year the government sent out letters to beach front property owners in Cape Cod, Massachusetts merely informing them a long time ago they buried mines on the beach, and that they’re probably still under there. Kinda a bit late to be letting people know, don’t you think? Thanks for posting that story!
Dave, it is an ink bottle. The glass shelf is where you put your pen to draw the ink into the barrel with a little leaver on your fountain pen. Before fountain pens, the quill was dipped in the glass shelf.
I live in Europe and my first house was in the historical center of rather old city - more than 800 years old in fact. It had a nice garden, but more importantly a barred and chained entrance to the old city underground system on the outside wall of that garden. Now this being a city with a big vineyards and wine-making tradition, this underground system was used mostly for manufacturing and storing said wine. So of course one day I broke in - after all, it wasn't owned by no one and city back then didn't really cared about it. Found out the underground spanned all under the city, although most of the routes were either collapsed, flooded or blocked by some previous owners. Few of them were not and among regular trash, I found a huge pile of empty wine bottles. Quite a number of them antique. It took me two days to carry them all out and clean them and all in all, there were more than 200 of very old bottles in pretty okay condition. I did my research and found out that many of these are quite valuable. I sold majority of them right after to collectors. Money from that little adventure paid my rent for good half a year. I've kept few best looking ones and I still have them.
I found a green bottle in the woods about 35 years ago. As a kid I thought it was cool so I kept it. Gave it to my wife years when dating with a single rose in it. Still have it.
That big brown bottle with the “A” on the bottom actually has an “H” over the “A” which is the mark of Hazel Atlas. Lots of collectors for Hazel Atlas glass.
I found a very old Pepsi bottle once. Cleaned it out and set it on the fence to dry. My kids went outside, saw it and decided to use it for target practice with rocks. Busted it all the pieces. Damn kids... ☹️
My dad often warned me about this: "If ever you see an old tin box wedged in an old stone wall leave it there son". It turns out that back when poisoning was legal here in Ireland it was common place for hunters to leave their little can of poison wedged in a stone wall somewhere, away from the house and the kids I suppose, and that many a such can was forgotten about and probably remains there to this day. A curious smell or taste or even a touch might be enough to kill a person, especially a curious child. Its good to know these things so they can be avoided and such hobbies enjoyed safely. I'm not trying to put people off, especially young people, because I've had many an enjoyable day metal collecting and in fact I know of a place full of old bottles going back 80-120 years that I'm going to have to check out. Its a shame more young people are not interested in such hobbies rather then playing video games, its good however for them to know the few pitfalls so they can continue these wonderful hobbies safely. God bless.
You'd be surprised at what so collectors will pay for an old soda bottle. A fews years back I came across an old "Dr. Pepper" bottle that was manufactured in texas at the Three Rivers Bottle company. I sold it on an Ebay auction for US$274.
I agree. I don't care as much about chemical bottles, but I definitely prefer glass for food and beverages. Drinks in particular taste better out of glass, and they seem to get colder.
One man's trash, is another man's treasure - found an 1888 glass electrical conductor from the first telegraph line in Mountain View. Gave it to a friend, it's still on his mantle😊
Thanks for sharing that. I remember being 12 years old with a friend, building a fire in a tin can stove on a dug out hole in the side of a hill that used to have railroad tracks over it in the past. And digging up old china plates, tea pots and bottles from the 30s, and found a beer bottle that was rusted and unopened...yah we opened it and drank a sip. Kids, surprisingly didnt die.
I have worked in some water treatment sites, that previously were victorian landfill sites. Spent many days picking around in the dirt in one particular site in South London, found some bottles from the late 1890's, the best one being an 'effiel tower lemonade' bottle from 1906. Its a great hobby but you need to watch your fingers on the glass. Keep up the good work.
Oh! That bottle that looked cracked appears to be an old Ink bottle, I've got a couple bottles of Schaeffer skrip ink bottles that are almost identical, makes it easier to fill an inkwell.
Right, it is an ink bottle (Schaeffer Scripto), and the inner division is there so that when the level gets low, you don't have to dip your fountain pen way down in which makes it hard to operate the lever to draw more ink in (without getting ink from the side of the bottle on your hands). Instead, with the cap screwed on, you tilt the bottle to fill the upper chamber. Then, with the top off, you fill your pen more easily with less risk of mess.
Yep, Scripto ink bottle. I used that same ink (& bottle) in my high school "Mechanical Drawing" (drafting) class (late 70's). Of course, that seems so primitive now, since these days, and even decades back, simple computer programs can achieve the same (or better) results much more quickly and easily. Wow. Now I'm feeling old. 😐
I remember when i was kid in my french school in Québec, how i loved the beautifull blue "outre-mer " in those bottles compare to all dark blue ink in the other brands.
When I went deer hunting in upstate New York, I found several trash sites. In one, I found a pewter topped shaker with three faces on it. I also found many cork topped bottles, where the seam stopped at the shoulders. I also found canning jars with pewter or tin/zinc rings and some glass lids.
I used to bottle hunt with mom when I was growing up after she passed away I donated part of them to the local historical society . Including one from a local drugstore with a two digit phone number
I love inexpensive hobbies because I grew up poor in the woods. Actually I would call this one a free hobby because everyone has a few simple digging tools already. Or if you sell the bottles, like you said, then you are getting paid to have fun. Gotta love it. Cool finds. Cool video. Thanks for posting!
I remember fishing in the first 3 miles where the AuSable River (hardly wider than a creek at that point) forms in northern Michigan when I was 13 or so. I was always barefoot and noticed my toes touching something distinctively man made in the sand. I dug out an old medicine bottle (no date) and got pretty excited about it. Took it home and showed it to my grandma and her face lit up. She was telling me how it was at least from the 1920's and she remembered those bottles from that decade. She then told me about what they did as kids to pass the time during the Great Depression where she and her family lived on an orchard (just a few miles from where I was fishing) and how lucky we are today and don't even realize it.
I’m sure you’ve already figured it out by now but the pyrex bottle is for sure a baby bottle. Only reason I know is because my grandmother still has one of those sitting on the shelf next to my moms baby picture. Thank you for another great video sir
The small jar at around 9 minutes is an ink jar. You would tilt the jar before opening to fill the shelf with ink so you could fill your fountain pen and/or dip your pen tip in. They still make them like that.
Being a plumber in Cincinnati Ohio I have found 3 outhouse privies. Two in the basement of two separate buildings. One in a back yard. First I found while jackhammering of the concrete floor and my jackhammer almost got out of my hands and fall into one. I found numerous bones from animals, pottery, bottles, leather shoes, bone handle toothbrushes, old medicine bottles, even old syringes. They all dated back to around 1910 at the top of the pretty and they would go all the way back to the 1780s in the bottom of the privies. It's very cool to come across one and the old things that are in it.
Back in 1999 I was working a new build job site in an old Detroit neighborhood and we discovered a dump that was from 1880-1920. The site was shut down for 90 days and a dig was conducted by the Detroit Historical Society with volunteers from Wayne State University. There were so many bottles of various types that we all got to take as many as we wanted for ourselves. I was hooked on bottle hunting after that, but I’ve never found anything like what we found that summer! I ended up with 25-30 1880-1900 patent medicine bottles, milk glass containers of all types, cobalt blue lattice style poison bottles, beer and soda push-in style blob top bottles and very ornate ceramic shaving soap and ladies face cream containers.
Me and a buddy of mine do this every summer since high school, and we got into hunting for stuff in River banks as well. I remember the first time we went out we found some diamond coke bottles, atomic glass ash trays, and tons of Roman bleach bottles. We were shocked to make like 60 bucks. It's a fun hobby, and a good way to spend time outdoors. Cool to see you spreading some word about this cool past time!
Sapphire blue glass bottles are amazing. I wish we still did that. The sapphire medicine bottles are so awesome especially when your collection starts to grow
I've dug an old farm tip in the woods for about 7yr. Earliest bottles are 1930 but the pottery bottles slight deeper go way back. My favourites are the old poison bottles, which can be really small and need careful digging and a good eye. I do all my digging with a fork that you eat with and I can't imagine how many tons I've dug through. Honestly I can't think of anything else that brings me peace and happiness as much as this does. And all for nothing or at most the price of a fork.
Jim Parker it is indeed an ink bottle. My grandfather told us the jar was tipped to fill the reservoir. The reservoir was supposed to be just the right depth to fill your quill and not guess the depth of your ink every time.
Good call, it would be nice if they still made them that way, it is a bit of a ball ache refilling my fountain pen as the level goes down in the bottle.
I was raised in the heart of Ontario farmland in the early 80's, and I remember at least four old "Farm field dumps" that I used to explore, Breaks my heart to think of all the old Hutchinson Coke bottles and old green and blue and brown bottles that fell prey to my old single shot 22.
Damn. Some of those bottles are freaking clean as hell to have been outside in the dirt for 50 to 70 years. Holy shit. Especially those bleach bottles.😧
Sometimes we dig dumps from the 50's on the surface... some of those sites go back a century or more when you dig down. We had one that was 70's surface scatter, got down to 1857, so far. We mostly look for colonial sites and old latrine pits in the area. It is an enjoyable hobby. Last fall when exploring a site I found a bunch of edible puff ball mushrooms, some as big as softballs. Only one an inclusion. Be going back there next August.
Been bottle digging for almost three years now, but due to the lockdown here in the UK not been for nearly five weeks, can’t wait to get back out there... thanks for the video, always nice to see what our brothers are up to over the pond 👍
David, The jar shown at around 9:02 is an ink bottle for fountain pens. The upper divider is to tip the jar, fill the divided part and dip a plain dip pen or quill in the ink. These were common through the mid 1960's, but more common 1950's and earlier. I still have a few (with ink) I bought new, back in the day. You could write an average sentence with each dip, then dip again. Happy hunting, Carl
When I was a kid my mom took us "treasure hunting" allot. Always a fun day. We used to look for old foundations. Bottles, spoons, old metal toys. You never know what you will find.
I have this forest preserve behind my house. Way out in the bush is a hidden alcohol still with an insanely old car with a tree growing through the engine bay. Super cool not many people know its there im guessing and theres even some bullet holes in the stills. One day found this super cool giant glass flask shaped bottle. The whole thing was engraved and said on the bottle "alcohol is prohibited. Not for sale. This is inteded for medical use" and all sorts of other cool things. Needless to say i got home ran to the bathroom, come back and my mother had thrown it in the trash and it smashed. So sad, ive seen lots of bottles but this was like a gem to me, cant believe she did that
Another place to find really old bottles are in old out house pits .Back in the mid 70's one of my summer jobs at grandparents 's farm was to dig a new out hose pit.I got 2-3feet down & started finding old bottles that were cork stopper types.
in philippi, wv @ old myers clinic in the library there is a hidden door behind the library shelves (north wall). this clinic was constructed in the early 1900's. my clinical professor and myself opened that door and entered into a long tunnel about 30' wide and ran about 300 ft back into the mountain. the tunnel was filled with medical equipment from 1800's thru 1960's. several medical items were from the civil war (philippi is the sight of first battle of the civil war on broaddus hill). lab equipment, jars, even a doctor's medical bag still had glass vials of medicine in them, with all their tools needed to practice medicine. we came across 2 mummified bodies that shortly thereafter disappeared. a doctor was experimenting with new embalming techniques in late 1800's, and now they are forgotten to history. we told the hospital/clinic board about the tunnel find. they had no idea the tunnel existed, which was constructed by a dr myers in mid-1700's. there was also hundreds of body parts floating in jars of formalde. in the early days of the myers clinic, it was as famous as the mayo clinic of today and was a major institution of medicinal education. today they have plans to make a museum of the artifacts we found. one particular find was an x-ray machine of 1930's vintage with a diode bigger than a football. talk about lighting you up. that's the closest i have been to becoming an indiana jones......which ultimately led me to the sw desert where i discovered ancient indian ruins, arrow heads, war axes, pottery, and dinosaur bones. now that i am retired from medicine and 70 yrs old, i ought to take the hobby up again
You can get a rough idea of the date on some bottles based on the presence of the embossed “dots” on the bottoms. They’re used as a grip so they don’t fall off the belt on assembly lines.
Pyrex is a particular kind of glass. Made in such a way as to have minimal thermal properties so it's low or no expansion glass. I used to build mirror type telescopes and we always got Pyrex coated mirrors so they would not expand or shrink and change the optical view of the telescope.
As a multi-generational farm family, we had our own 'dump' in an accessible but out of the way spot. My father had it cleaned up and taken to the town facilities. You give a glimpse of how long things stay 'in the woods.'
To think I carry a contractor's trash bags with me when I go hiking just to clean the trash, particularly broken glass, aluminum can & tin cans - all things that someone who's new to hiking or is bid watching or has their kids &/or dogs with them to prevent what I call a vacation ruiner when hiking trails to waterfalls, around places where people go camping or at the beach (where such things don't belong anyhow). If you hike it in, you hike it out is my motto & that applies to boaters & fishermen as well. Unfortunately, I have never gone hiking or beach walking when I wasn't able to fill that contractor's bag & wished I had another one because there's SO MANY ppl who treat the planet like it's the city dump. We go to FL every year & do a tremendous amount of walking & hiking. Each of the 2 of us ALWAYS find more garbage on one hike or walk than we create between the two of us in 2 weeks, most of it is recyclable which is truly the saddest part. I may have to start carrying one extra bag for the types of bottles you mentioned here! I've found car tags from the Bahamas in Ormond Beach, FL, one such tag was #19, imagine how old that one was, granted there aren't a ton of cars in the Bahamas but still! I was offered money for it ($50) by the owner of a beachfront bar & grill but I kept it, it's a memory for me & is in a small box with all of my keepsakes, each has a story that goes with it. Some things are more precious than our fiat currency. Like that piece of cheap ribbon with the balloon still on it that I found a baby green turtle wrapped up in amongst the seaweed the morning after a storm. I kept a piece of the ribbon & called the rescue group to come & get the turtle. And no, I'm not some wacko that drives spikes into trees so that if someone or a logging company employee can be seriously injured because the tree grew over the spike. I'm not a nut but I am a steward of the forests, rivers, streams, beaches & oceans. I can't stand a litter bug & will take down a tag #, stop & pick up the trash thrown out of a moving vehicle & will call the police, park ranger or beach patrol. It's been a pet peeve of mine every since I was a kid after my first hurricane experience. But now? I'm going to start a glass collection & hope someone wants the entire collection every so often!! Who knows, I might be able to pay for my gas one trip to FL & a penny saved is a penny earned (& yes, I pick up any & all change I find on the ground!). So thank you sir for giving me a way to potentially get paid for my garbage cleanup!!
Hi Dave, it's 2:45 a.m and couldn't sleep...your video link popped up on my screen. I use a fountain pen to write and have been since I was stationed in England. I met up with a calligrapher and her skills with the pen piqued my interest in the art. This was back in the mid-sixties and one of her bottles of ink had the ink well built into the bottle, I believe in was by Scripto or Parker; the latter being my choice of ink. I do calligraphy as a hobby but have made money on the side doing wedding invitations and I did many certificates in the military, e.g. NCO Leadership school, academy, etc. and I collect fountain pens and old bottles of ink. I use to take my kids out into the desert near Gila Bend, AZ, to collect old bottles for an elderly man's collection. He would hang them on his fence around his home. Several of them were actually "collectibles" such as sarsparilla (sp?) bottles and he would pay my kids more for them. This was one way I introduced work ethics to my kids. This hobby confirms the old adage, "One man's trash is another man's treasure."
A similar hobby you can include as the cheapest, maybe even cheaper, is beachcombing. You can find some really great stuff, you'd be surprised. Plus, the shore is the easiest place to find a meal in nature. You can comb all day and then have a seafood dinner after.
Awesome video! I found one of those little bottles with the lip on the inside, it does look cracked at first glance, but it's actually the 'lip' inside. Everyone commenting says it's an ink well bottle. TOO COOL! Thanks again for this awesome video!
Yea bottles and tins are fun to collect . A word of caution , I learned from an Elder , who nearly died himself and some lads he knew did die from this mistake . They found a old tin in the bush , they opened it and it had a white powder in it . They did not know what it was and took it too the old boy I met at the markets . They handed him the tin , and said" what's this old man??? " well it turned out to be syanide powder probably used for baiting foxes . Well just sniffing the tin , put the old man in hospital , he had an out of body Experence , floating around the room out of his body . The two boys that Baught him the tin , died in hospital !!! They must have touched the powder ! Well the moral of the story , be careful going through old rubbish etc old tins and bottles may have been discarded for a reason , being poison bottles etc . The old boy survived ok , and lived to give me the warning , I'm sharing with you all . I love old bottles and tins but , it pays to be cautious ! :) even a sniff of a bottle , can put you in hospital or worse . Words from a wise old trapper , hunter from down under :)
My dad often warned me about this: "If ever you see an old tin box wedged in an old stone wall leave it there son". It turns out that back when poisoning was legal here in Ireland it was common place for hunters to leave their little can of poison wedged in a stone wall somewhere, away from the house and the kids I suppose, and that many a such can was forgotten about and probably remains there to this day. A curious smell or taste or even a touch might be enough to kill a person, especially a curious child. Its good to know these things so they can be avoided and such hobbies enjoyed safely. I'm not trying to put people off, especially young people, because I've had many an enjoyable day metal collecting and its a shame more young people are not interested in such hobbies rather then playing video games, its good however for them to know the few pitfalls so they can continue these wonderful hobbies safely. God bless.
If you want to spend a little more money into the hobby you can pick up a cheap metal detector. I dont know if they still make ones for kids but you used to be able to buy them as a electronic building kit for kids . They were super light weight and consisted of a 3inch x 3inch circuit board in a small plastic case. With one of these I found tons of stuff bottle hunting (or treasure hunting as I called it). With one of those kiddy detectors I found medicine bottles from the 1800s and also ceramic beer bottle tops (they had metal resealing clasps). Both of which were highly collectable. Bottle caps are still collectable. I found the reciever of an old double barrel shotgun (the wood had rotted away) and a old Spanish pick head (in Florida). All with a cheap kiddy $29 metal detector kit. When I was 18 I moved up into the big leagues and bought a professional detector for $300, a fortune in 1975.
The bottle with the extra web of glass partitioning the interior is for fountain pen ink. Tip the closed bottle to capture some ink in the upper pool with the lid closed. Then open the jar and there is a pool of ink in easy reach to limit the chance of inky fingertips, when reloading the pen.
The small bottle that has the angled piece is an Fountain Pen ink bottle. The angled piece is to help you fill a pen without sticking the nib into the ink to far and making a mess on the pen body.
Yes the little bottle is an ink bottle. With the lid on, we would tip it to fill the upper area. When using a fountain pen or a quill pen with a nib, it was easy to load the ink without getting the handle of the pen in the ink. It is hard to believe that they are no longer common. It is even hard to buy ink cartridges for the old fountain pens.
I found myself an Orange Crush Glass soda bottle near my child hood home next to a creek that was made in the next door town of Iron Mountain MI, dated July 20 1920. Found it after the house was torn down. Still got it on my shelf to remember that place. Thanks for sharing this! Fun hobby and a great reason to get out into nature. Take care, AJ
My mom and I bottle hunt quite often. We live in an area full of old logging cabins that are just foundations now. We’ve found some cool things, lots of bottle, axe beads, old coins, chains from hoses, horse shows.
I took my daughter out and we did this a couple of weeks ago. We had a blast and found some neat bottles, nothing really old just interesting. Thank you for the video and validating that I'm not crazy.
The one with the glass divider is for ink. You shake some ink up into the top compartment, then you don't have to dip the pay way down deep into the bottle when the ink runs low.
Awesome video! This is one of my favorite hobbies. And that potato rake is one of my favorite tools! Instead of dumps, and depending on where I'm hiking, sometimes I like to look for old foundation blocks or signs of where a house used to be, and then finding their trash pile. Sometimes it's just a barely noticeable mound with no apparent trash on the surface. Once you start raking back those leaves though, you never know what you'll find. Depression era blue bottles, porcelain doll pieces, broken kitchenware, and old garden implements and flower pots are some of my favorite finds.
Cool video. My grandfather used to hunt for bottles but at that time was particular about only getting bottles that were made with stoppers. Probably what you had to have back then for things to be vintage.
I found a bottle exactly like that in my backyard. Upon further research I believe it was for some sort of baby medicine. With the lid on you would tilt the bottle to fill up that little lip inside and then you could pull the medicine up into a dropper.
That last brown bottle was an ammonia. The little clear bottle that looked like baby food, was a liquid medicine bottle it came with a dropper,the side was to turn the bottle over to fill and that is how you measure what to take and that is what you sucked up in the dropper
The small bottle at 12:49 is an ink bottle. The little space near the top is where you dip the nib of pen when you are writing. Keeps you from sticking the point too deep and being messy. When that little well needs more ink you just tip the bottle a little and refill the small well.
With earthship homes becoming more popular even newer glass bottles are going to become more popular because a lot of earthships have bottle walls where entire walls will have bottles of various sizes as a center piece that doubles as functional. If you find an earthship group you can probably sell the bottles to them, they may even be able to use those broken jars and the like
:) good one, dave. we were metal detectoring near a lake, some weeks ago. found much trash in the hill, with it some glas bottles. i thought: "that one looks good, its old, must be worth some". so, it was from almost 100 years old, being sold at around 10euros. finding some old bottles in trashy places might be more regarding than finding coins with a 250euros metal detector, and u also clean the woods with that action!
Another hobby you can derive from the bottles you decide not to keep is glass knapping to make arrow heads (which can also be an useful survival skill 😉👍)
I live in Utah where their are a lot of old mines/ ghost towns, I like to search out these places. What surprises me is how often I find silver spoons. Kind of makes me wonder about the whole "being born with a silver spoon" saying.
You have an ink well with the glass barrier in the throat. Ya fill the pen from the small reservoir made in the throat by the barrier. Bad form to dunk the pen all the way to the bottom of the bottle ...
Hello from here in the UK. Great video Dave. I found an old dump by a bitch a while back , all the bottles were broken with winter floods but the plus side to that was I collected dozens of perfect Victorian bottle bottoms for knapping points.
I haven’t been an avid bottle collector but I do have a small collection I’ve found around an old homestead on our property. I have a few of the blue Ball mason jars I found with the lids, also have some really cool Pet milk bottles from the 1920s.
Hey Dave, the bottle you found at 9:05 is a Sheaffer Skrip ink bottle. The little chamber at the top made it easier to fill your fountain pen when the bottle was running low. Probably from from the '40s or '50s Thanks for the video, and nice finds!
Really interesting video. Good finds you got there. An other good thing with collecting bottles is to get the "trash" out of the woods. Thanks for sharing.
Right on Dave I love this stuff yesterday I found a stack of lisence plates 48 49 50 wind up tinker toy tractor marks toy truck embossed beer bottle that said brewery products limited fired 45 ish caliber mini ball and some brass and copper pipe for recycling . Iam gonna restore the toy truck . My wife says it's junk but it's treasure to me
The small clear jar with the lip inside is an indian ink jar. It's designed that way so that you can tip it sideways and collect just enough ink at the right depth to dip a calligraphy pin in. They are actually still made that way and the design has changed little if any in the last seventy years. Good video. Actually went out and poked around an old dump today and got seven nice vintage marbles.
The tiny jar with the extra glass webbing inside could possibly a collector's item, if that webbing is a manufacturing mistake. Coke, (I know that's not a coke bottle), use to have what's called a "Bird cage bottle". It was a manufacturing flaw in their old glass 1 liter bottles. The bottle would have a string a glass from one side to the other that resembled a pirch. Those were worth about $40 20 years ago.
BEWARE: i guy from my village once thought he found a ww2 aluminum bottle. He picked it up and opened the lid. Turned out it was not a ww2 bottle but a ww1 clorine gas canister - still sealed. He died of clorine poisoning after opening it up. You probably wont find anything like that in the US, but in Europe you can. So beware people.
Also: this hobby is a good way to get some trash out of the woods. Cheers from Slovenia.
Woah, that's a very real danger where you are. Probably wouldn't have that problem here in Minnesota, US, but thanks for the insight
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Read about the Japanese using balloons to attack the USA! They used the high altitude jet stream to get them here. The Government told the media of the day to keep quiet about it they did. Fat chance of that happening today! The Japanese gave up when no reports we happening about there plan. In Washington State a family ran across one and some were injured.
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Yikes!! That could have happened to me. When I was a kid I was playing in my aunt’s back yard in Finland, and it had a stream running through it. While I was looking for minnows, I found an old cannon ball. Could have found an old explosive instead, and naturally curious me woulda been a goner.
This stuff’s still out there more than you’d expect. Last year the government sent out letters to beach front property owners in Cape Cod, Massachusetts merely informing them a long time ago they buried mines on the beach, and that they’re probably still under there. Kinda a bit late to be letting people know, don’t you think?
Thanks for posting that story!
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Dave, it is an ink bottle. The glass shelf is where you put your pen to draw the ink into the barrel with a little leaver on your fountain pen. Before fountain pens, the quill was dipped in the glass shelf.
Hiking on mushrooms and looking for trash is definitely my favorite hobby
I live in Europe and my first house was in the historical center of rather old city - more than 800 years old in fact. It had a nice garden, but more importantly a barred and chained entrance to the old city underground system on the outside wall of that garden. Now this being a city with a big vineyards and wine-making tradition, this underground system was used mostly for manufacturing and storing said wine. So of course one day I broke in - after all, it wasn't owned by no one and city back then didn't really cared about it. Found out the underground spanned all under the city, although most of the routes were either collapsed, flooded or blocked by some previous owners. Few of them were not and among regular trash, I found a huge pile of empty wine bottles. Quite a number of them antique. It took me two days to carry them all out and clean them and all in all, there were more than 200 of very old bottles in pretty okay condition. I did my research and found out that many of these are quite valuable. I sold majority of them right after to collectors. Money from that little adventure paid my rent for good half a year. I've kept few best looking ones and I still have them.
I found a green bottle in the woods about 35 years ago. As a kid I thought it was cool so I kept it. Gave it to my wife years when dating with a single rose in it. Still have it.
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When I was younger I was pretty into bottle digging I actually found some medicine bottles from the late 1800s.
That big brown bottle with the “A” on the bottom actually has an “H” over the “A” which is the mark of Hazel Atlas. Lots of collectors for Hazel Atlas glass.
I found a very old Pepsi bottle once. Cleaned it out and set it on the fence to dry. My kids went outside, saw it and decided to use it for target practice with rocks. Busted it all the pieces. Damn kids... ☹️
My dad often warned me about this: "If ever you see an old tin box wedged in an old stone wall leave it there son". It turns out that back when poisoning was legal here in Ireland it was common place for hunters to leave their little can of poison wedged in a stone wall somewhere, away from the house and the kids I suppose, and that many a such can was forgotten about and probably remains there to this day. A curious smell or taste or even a touch might be enough to kill a person, especially a curious child. Its good to know these things so they can be avoided and such hobbies enjoyed safely. I'm not trying to put people off, especially young people, because I've had many an enjoyable day metal collecting and in fact I know of a place full of old bottles going back 80-120 years that I'm going to have to check out. Its a shame more young people are not interested in such hobbies rather then playing video games, its good however for them to know the few pitfalls so they can continue these wonderful hobbies safely. God bless.
You'd be surprised at what so collectors will pay for an old soda bottle. A fews years back I came across an old "Dr. Pepper" bottle that was manufactured in texas at the Three Rivers Bottle company. I sold it on an Ebay auction for US$274.
Damn
Dadgum! I didn't know they went for that kind of scratch.
Thats pretty awesome
Now I feel dumb, people used to camp out at a property we went to and we found a lot of old bottles that we shot.
No shit?
The bottle dated 9/1952 was the month and year I was born! How cool is that!
I wish they still used glass for everything...
@Kurt M. that's what someone who doesn't care about environmental impact would say.
I agree. I don't care as much about chemical bottles, but I definitely prefer glass for food and beverages. Drinks in particular taste better out of glass, and they seem to get colder.
@@aznative_ glass would impact the environment more unless you used it 1000 times
A lot of places no longer recycle glass. If you don't reuse it yourself it ends up in a landfill.
@@aznative_ apologies i misread your comment lols
One man's trash, is another man's treasure - found an 1888 glass electrical conductor from the first telegraph line in Mountain View. Gave it to a friend, it's still on his mantle😊
Thanks for sharing that. I remember being 12 years old with a friend, building a fire in a tin can stove on a dug out hole in the side of a hill that used to have railroad tracks over it in the past. And digging up old china plates, tea pots and bottles from the 30s, and found a beer bottle that was rusted and unopened...yah we opened it and drank a sip. Kids, surprisingly didnt die.
That 50 year old Listerene bottle will probably be found by a collector in a couple hundred years in about the same shape that you found it.
I have worked in some water treatment sites, that previously were victorian landfill sites. Spent many days picking around in the dirt in one particular site in South London, found some bottles from the late 1890's, the best one being an 'effiel tower lemonade' bottle from 1906. Its a great hobby but you need to watch your fingers on the glass. Keep up the good work.
Oh! That bottle that looked cracked appears to be an old Ink bottle, I've got a couple bottles of Schaeffer skrip ink bottles that are almost identical, makes it easier to fill an inkwell.
That is indeed an ink bottle. I have quite a few for my fountain pens.
Right, it is an ink bottle (Schaeffer Scripto), and the inner division is there so that when the level gets low, you don't have to dip your fountain pen way down in which makes it hard to operate the lever to draw more ink in (without getting ink from the side of the bottle on your hands). Instead, with the cap screwed on, you tilt the bottle to fill the upper chamber. Then, with the top off, you fill your pen more easily with less risk of mess.
@@craigmooring2091 yep! It's actually a good design, I've found it useful when I do actually use my fountain pens.
Yep, Scripto ink bottle. I used that same ink (& bottle) in my high school "Mechanical Drawing" (drafting) class (late 70's). Of course, that seems so primitive now, since these days, and even decades back, simple computer programs can achieve the same (or better) results much more quickly and easily. Wow. Now I'm feeling old. 😐
I remember when i was kid in my french school in Québec, how i loved the beautifull blue "outre-mer " in those bottles compare to all dark blue ink in the other brands.
When I went deer hunting in upstate New York, I found several trash sites. In one, I found a pewter topped shaker with three faces on it. I also found many cork topped bottles, where the seam stopped at the shoulders. I also found canning jars with pewter or tin/zinc rings and some glass lids.
I used to bottle hunt with mom when I was growing up after she passed away I donated part of them to the local historical society . Including one from a local drugstore with a two digit phone number
I love inexpensive hobbies because I grew up poor in the woods. Actually I would call this one a free hobby because everyone has a few simple digging tools already. Or if you sell the bottles, like you said, then you are getting paid to have fun. Gotta love it. Cool finds. Cool video. Thanks for posting!
I remember fishing in the first 3 miles where the AuSable River (hardly wider than a creek at that point) forms in northern Michigan when I was 13 or so. I was always barefoot and noticed my toes touching something distinctively man made in the sand. I dug out an old medicine bottle (no date) and got pretty excited about it. Took it home and showed it to my grandma and her face lit up. She was telling me how it was at least from the 1920's and she remembered those bottles from that decade. She then told me about what they did as kids to pass the time during the Great Depression where she and her family lived on an orchard (just a few miles from where I was fishing) and how lucky we are today and don't even realize it.
What did they do as kids to pass the time?
I’m sure you’ve already figured it out by now but the pyrex bottle is for sure a baby bottle.
Only reason I know is because my grandmother still has one of those sitting on the shelf next to my moms baby picture.
Thank you for another great video sir
The small jar at around 9 minutes is an ink jar. You would tilt the jar before opening to fill the shelf with ink so you could fill your fountain pen and/or dip your pen tip in. They still make them like that.
Being a plumber in Cincinnati Ohio I have found 3 outhouse privies. Two in the basement of two separate buildings. One in a back yard. First I found while jackhammering of the concrete floor and my jackhammer almost got out of my hands and fall into one. I found numerous bones from animals, pottery, bottles, leather shoes, bone handle toothbrushes, old medicine bottles, even old syringes. They all dated back to around 1910 at the top of the pretty and they would go all the way back to the 1780s in the bottom of the privies. It's very cool to come across one and the old things that are in it.
Back in 1999 I was working a new build job site in an old Detroit neighborhood and we discovered a dump that was from 1880-1920. The site was shut down for 90 days and a dig was conducted by the Detroit Historical Society with volunteers from Wayne State University. There were so many bottles of various types that we all got to take as many as we wanted for ourselves. I was hooked on bottle hunting after that, but I’ve never found anything like what we found that summer! I ended up with 25-30 1880-1900 patent medicine bottles, milk glass containers of all types, cobalt blue lattice style poison bottles, beer and soda push-in style blob top bottles and very ornate ceramic shaving soap and ladies face cream containers.
Me and a buddy of mine do this every summer since high school, and we got into hunting for stuff in River banks as well. I remember the first time we went out we found some diamond coke bottles, atomic glass ash trays, and tons of Roman bleach bottles. We were shocked to make like 60 bucks. It's a fun hobby, and a good way to spend time outdoors. Cool to see you spreading some word about this cool past time!
Sapphire blue glass bottles are amazing. I wish we still did that. The sapphire medicine bottles are so awesome especially when your collection starts to grow
I do e-commerce shipping for goodwill, and people love vintage items. I'm constantly amazed what sells for good money.
I was digging for a building footings and found a bottle that was from France and it was to treat gonorrhea. 1930's era
@Randy Bingham probably was made with cocaine or morphine :)
I need that how much?
I've dug an old farm tip in the woods for about 7yr. Earliest bottles are 1930 but the pottery bottles slight deeper go way back. My favourites are the old poison bottles, which can be really small and need careful digging and a good eye. I do all my digging with a fork that you eat with and I can't imagine how many tons I've dug through. Honestly I can't think of anything else that brings me peace and happiness as much as this does. And all for nothing or at most the price of a fork.
“Weird, strange bottle” is perhaps an ink jar with built in “well” to facilitate easy filling of fountain pens.
Jim Parker it is indeed an ink bottle. My grandfather told us the jar was tipped to fill the reservoir. The reservoir was supposed to be just the right depth to fill your quill and not guess the depth of your ink every time.
Good call, it would be nice if they still made them that way, it is a bit of a ball ache refilling my fountain pen as the level goes down in the bottle.
US Patent 1759866A (from the bottom of the jar):
patents.google.com/patent/US1759866A/en
I was raised in the heart of Ontario farmland in the early 80's, and I remember at least four old "Farm field dumps" that I used to explore, Breaks my heart to think of all the old Hutchinson Coke bottles and old green and blue and brown bottles that fell prey to my old single shot 22.
But if they were all still around they wouldn’t be worth much. That’s the catch.
Damn. Some of those bottles are freaking clean as hell to have been outside in the dirt for 50 to 70 years. Holy shit. Especially those bleach bottles.😧
Sometimes we dig dumps from the 50's on the surface... some of those sites go back a century or more when you dig down. We had one that was 70's surface scatter, got down to 1857, so far. We mostly look for colonial sites and old latrine pits in the area. It is an enjoyable hobby.
Last fall when exploring a site I found a bunch of edible puff ball mushrooms, some as big as softballs. Only one an inclusion. Be going back there next August.
Been bottle digging for almost three years now, but due to the lockdown here in the UK not been for nearly five weeks, can’t wait to get back out there... thanks for the video, always nice to see what our brothers are up to over the pond 👍
The baby bottle gave me chills. I love that! Its cool to wonder what the life of vintage objects were like.
David, The jar shown at around 9:02 is an ink bottle for fountain pens. The upper divider is to tip the jar, fill the divided part and dip a plain dip pen or quill in the ink. These were common through the mid 1960's, but more common 1950's and earlier. I still have a few (with ink) I bought new, back in the day. You could write an average sentence with each dip, then dip again.
Happy hunting, Carl
When I was a kid my mom took us "treasure hunting" allot. Always a fun day. We used to look for old foundations. Bottles, spoons, old metal toys. You never know what you will find.
I have this forest preserve behind my house. Way out in the bush is a hidden alcohol still with an insanely old car with a tree growing through the engine bay. Super cool not many people know its there im guessing and theres even some bullet holes in the stills. One day found this super cool giant glass flask shaped bottle. The whole thing was engraved and said on the bottle "alcohol is prohibited. Not for sale. This is inteded for medical use" and all sorts of other cool things. Needless to say i got home ran to the bathroom, come back and my mother had thrown it in the trash and it smashed. So sad, ive seen lots of bottles but this was like a gem to me, cant believe she did that
Another place to find really old bottles are in old out house pits .Back in the mid 70's one of my summer jobs at grandparents 's farm was to dig a new out hose pit.I got 2-3feet down & started finding old bottles that were cork stopper types.
in philippi, wv @ old myers clinic in the library there is a hidden door behind the library shelves (north wall). this clinic was constructed in the early 1900's. my clinical professor and myself opened that door and entered into a long tunnel about 30' wide and ran about 300 ft back into the mountain. the tunnel was filled with medical equipment from 1800's thru 1960's. several medical items were from the civil war (philippi is the sight of first battle of the civil war on broaddus hill). lab equipment, jars, even a doctor's medical bag still had glass vials of medicine in them, with all their tools needed to practice medicine. we came across 2 mummified bodies that shortly thereafter disappeared. a doctor was experimenting with new embalming techniques in late 1800's, and now they are forgotten to history. we told the hospital/clinic board about the tunnel find. they had no idea the tunnel existed, which was constructed by a dr myers in mid-1700's. there was also hundreds of body parts floating in jars of formalde. in the early days of the myers clinic, it was as famous as the mayo clinic of today and was a major institution of medicinal education. today they have plans to make a museum of the artifacts we found. one particular find was an x-ray machine of 1930's vintage with a diode bigger than a football. talk about lighting you up. that's the closest i have been to becoming an indiana jones......which ultimately led me to the sw desert where i discovered ancient indian ruins, arrow heads, war axes, pottery, and dinosaur bones. now that i am retired from medicine and 70 yrs old, i ought to take the hobby up again
You can get a rough idea of the date on some bottles based on the presence of the embossed “dots” on the bottoms. They’re used as a grip so they don’t fall off the belt on assembly lines.
Cheapest hobby on earth is watching Dave Canterbury on TH-cam. And just as fun.
If you get your internet for free
Yep, and you don't get your hands and shoes muddy...What a bargain!
Cheapest?
@@lazertadpole4977 And your phone and/or computer.
I pay £11 a month for this
Pyrex is a particular kind of glass. Made in such a way as to have minimal thermal properties so it's low or no expansion glass. I used to build mirror type telescopes and we always got Pyrex coated mirrors so they would not expand or shrink and change the optical view of the telescope.
As a multi-generational farm family, we had our own 'dump' in an accessible but out of the way spot. My father had it cleaned up and taken to the town facilities. You give a glimpse of how long things stay 'in the woods.'
To think I carry a contractor's trash bags with me when I go hiking just to clean the trash, particularly broken glass, aluminum can & tin cans - all things that someone who's new to hiking or is bid watching or has their kids &/or dogs with them to prevent what I call a vacation ruiner when hiking trails to waterfalls, around places where people go camping or at the beach (where such things don't belong anyhow). If you hike it in, you hike it out is my motto & that applies to boaters & fishermen as well. Unfortunately, I have never gone hiking or beach walking when I wasn't able to fill that contractor's bag & wished I had another one because there's SO MANY ppl who treat the planet like it's the city dump. We go to FL every year & do a tremendous amount of walking & hiking. Each of the 2 of us ALWAYS find more garbage on one hike or walk than we create between the two of us in 2 weeks, most of it is recyclable which is truly the saddest part. I may have to start carrying one extra bag for the types of bottles you mentioned here! I've found car tags from the Bahamas in Ormond Beach, FL, one such tag was #19, imagine how old that one was, granted there aren't a ton of cars in the Bahamas but still! I was offered money for it ($50) by the owner of a beachfront bar & grill but I kept it, it's a memory for me & is in a small box with all of my keepsakes, each has a story that goes with it. Some things are more precious than our fiat currency. Like that piece of cheap ribbon with the balloon still on it that I found a baby green turtle wrapped up in amongst the seaweed the morning after a storm. I kept a piece of the ribbon & called the rescue group to come & get the turtle. And no, I'm not some wacko that drives spikes into trees so that if someone or a logging company employee can be seriously injured because the tree grew over the spike. I'm not a nut but I am a steward of the forests, rivers, streams, beaches & oceans. I can't stand a litter bug & will take down a tag #, stop & pick up the trash thrown out of a moving vehicle & will call the police, park ranger or beach patrol. It's been a pet peeve of mine every since I was a kid after my first hurricane experience. But now? I'm going to start a glass collection & hope someone wants the entire collection every so often!! Who knows, I might be able to pay for my gas one trip to FL & a penny saved is a penny earned (& yes, I pick up any & all change I find on the ground!). So thank you sir for giving me a way to potentially get paid for my garbage cleanup!!
Hi Dave, it's 2:45 a.m and couldn't sleep...your video link popped up on my screen. I use a fountain pen to write and have been since I was stationed in England. I met up with a calligrapher and her skills with the pen piqued my interest in the art. This was back in the mid-sixties and one of her bottles of ink had the ink well built into the bottle, I believe in was by Scripto or Parker; the latter being my choice of ink. I do calligraphy as a hobby but have made money on the side doing wedding invitations and I did many certificates in the military, e.g. NCO Leadership school, academy, etc. and I collect fountain pens and old bottles of ink. I use to take my kids out into the desert near Gila Bend, AZ, to collect old bottles for an elderly man's collection. He would hang them on his fence around his home. Several of them were actually "collectibles" such as sarsparilla (sp?) bottles and he would pay my kids more for them. This was one way I introduced work ethics to my kids. This hobby confirms the old adage, "One man's trash is another man's treasure."
A similar hobby you can include as the cheapest, maybe even cheaper, is beachcombing. You can find some really great stuff, you'd be surprised. Plus, the shore is the easiest place to find a meal in nature. You can comb all day and then have a seafood dinner after.
Awesome video! I found one of those little bottles with the lip on the inside, it does look cracked at first glance, but it's actually the 'lip' inside. Everyone commenting says it's an ink well bottle. TOO COOL! Thanks again for this awesome video!
Yea bottles and tins are fun to collect . A word of caution , I learned from an Elder , who nearly died himself and some lads he knew did die from this mistake . They found a old tin in the bush , they opened it and it had a white powder in it . They did not know what it was and took it too the old boy I met at the markets .
They handed him the tin , and said" what's this old man??? " well it turned out to be syanide powder probably used for baiting foxes .
Well just sniffing the tin , put the old man in hospital , he had an out of body Experence , floating around the room out of his body .
The two boys that Baught him the tin , died in hospital !!! They must have touched the powder !
Well the moral of the story , be careful going through old rubbish etc old tins and bottles may have been discarded for a reason , being poison bottles etc .
The old boy survived ok , and lived to give me the warning , I'm sharing with you all .
I love old bottles and tins but , it pays to be cautious ! :) even a sniff of a bottle , can put you in hospital or worse .
Words from a wise old trapper , hunter from down under :)
Aussie.Bushcraft &Survival lol
Good advice! Nowadays it's also wise to wear puncture-resistant gloves. Getting poked by a syringe makes a bad day bottle hunting.
You should wear a hazmat suit ever time you go outdoors.
My dad often warned me about this: "If ever you see an old tin box wedged in an old stone wall leave it there son". It turns out that back when poisoning was legal here in Ireland it was common place for hunters to leave their little can of poison wedged in a stone wall somewhere, away from the house and the kids I suppose, and that many a such can was forgotten about and probably remains there to this day. A curious smell or taste or even a touch might be enough to kill a person, especially a curious child. Its good to know these things so they can be avoided and such hobbies enjoyed safely. I'm not trying to put people off, especially young people, because I've had many an enjoyable day metal collecting and its a shame more young people are not interested in such hobbies rather then playing video games, its good however for them to know the few pitfalls so they can continue these wonderful hobbies safely. God bless.
Hey - that little one with side well is an ink bottle. We used them in 1940s.
Good to have affordable options. It doesn’t have to be expensive to be rewarding.
If you want to spend a little more money into the hobby you can pick up a cheap metal detector. I dont know if they still make ones for kids but you used to be able to buy them as a electronic building kit for kids . They were super light weight and consisted of a 3inch x 3inch circuit board in a small plastic case. With one of these I found tons of stuff bottle hunting (or treasure hunting as I called it). With one of those kiddy detectors I found medicine bottles from the 1800s and also ceramic beer bottle tops (they had metal resealing clasps). Both of which were highly collectable. Bottle caps are still collectable. I found the reciever of an old double barrel shotgun (the wood had rotted away) and a old Spanish pick head (in Florida). All with a cheap kiddy $29 metal detector kit. When I was 18 I moved up into the big leagues and bought a professional detector for $300, a fortune in 1975.
Hehe, now that I think about most kids at 18 got a job and saved up for a car. I bought a metal detector. 🤣
Coming soon!
The bottle with the extra web of glass partitioning the interior is for fountain pen ink. Tip the closed bottle to capture some ink in the upper pool with the lid closed. Then open the jar and there is a pool of ink in easy reach to limit the chance of inky fingertips, when reloading the pen.
The small bottle that has the angled piece is an Fountain Pen ink bottle. The angled piece is to help you fill a pen without sticking the nib into the ink to far and making a mess on the pen body.
The small bottle with the lip inside is a desk ink bottle you fill your pen in the smallbowl..
This is why the channel is one of my faves. A different flavor video and a surprise woods hobby.
Yes the little bottle is an ink bottle. With the lid on, we would tip it to fill the upper area. When using a fountain pen or a quill pen with a nib, it was easy to load the ink without getting the handle of the pen in the ink. It is hard to believe that they are no longer common. It is even hard to buy ink cartridges for the old fountain pens.
Fine places for copperheads as well. Speaking from experience.
Cant live ur life fearing the devil my friend!
@@scrappyhustler7467 Right, but it doesn't hurt to be mindful of where you stick your hands.
No doubt my friend...just the idea of it makes me start to vomit a little
@@Feuerspray31
Rake it first, with the potato digger. The handle should be long enough to keep a safe distance.
I found myself an Orange Crush Glass soda bottle near my child hood home next to a creek that was made in the next door town of Iron Mountain MI, dated July 20 1920.
Found it after the house was torn down. Still got it on my shelf to remember that place.
Thanks for sharing this! Fun hobby and a great reason to get out into nature.
Take care,
AJ
This was awesome. Thank you for sharing. Get out and walk with multiple purposes is exactly what I was trying to find. I really appreciate it.
My mom and I bottle hunt quite often. We live in an area full of old logging cabins that are just foundations now. We’ve found some cool things, lots of bottle, axe beads, old coins, chains from hoses, horse shows.
I took my daughter out and we did this a couple of weeks ago. We had a blast and found some neat bottles, nothing really old just interesting. Thank you for the video and validating that I'm not crazy.
The one with the glass divider is for ink. You shake some ink up into the top compartment, then you don't have to dip the pay way down deep into the bottle when the ink runs low.
The small jar with the internal chamber is an ink bottle. It was used while you were filling an old refilleable fountain pen.
Wow! Its incredible that these are still intact after so many years! Its amazing what you can find out there. Thanks for sharing!
Awesome video! This is one of my favorite hobbies. And that potato rake is one of my favorite tools!
Instead of dumps, and depending on where I'm hiking, sometimes I like to look for old foundation blocks or signs of where a house used to be, and then finding their trash pile. Sometimes it's just a barely noticeable mound with no apparent trash on the surface. Once you start raking back those leaves though, you never know what you'll find. Depression era blue bottles, porcelain doll pieces, broken kitchenware, and old garden implements and flower pots are some of my favorite finds.
Thank you for keeping it real for the common man Dave. Respect.
Cool video. My grandfather used to hunt for bottles but at that time was particular about only getting bottles that were made with stoppers. Probably what you had to have back then for things to be vintage.
I've been doing this for years since I accidentally stumbled on some bottles in a local creek. I love it and I'm glad you made this video!
I found a bottle exactly like that in my backyard. Upon further research I believe it was for some sort of baby medicine. With the lid on you would tilt the bottle to fill up that little lip inside and then you could pull the medicine up into a dropper.
That last brown bottle was an ammonia. The little clear bottle that looked like baby food, was a liquid medicine bottle it came with a dropper,the side was to turn the bottle over to fill and that is how you measure what to take and that is what you sucked up in the dropper
Let’s start manufacturing all your gear in the US! All the Titanium and stainless steel gear, canvas and dynema/cuban fiber!
bottle
So make Cuba part of the USA? Sure I think we should just plant hemp though.
@@Barskor1 No thanks. Cuba and hemp can stay out.
Sounds good but I believe there is no domestic supply for titanium.
@@RyuzakiReaper hemp has been legal for a while and is a very profitable crop
The small bottle at 12:49 is an ink bottle. The little space near the top is where you dip the nib of pen when you are writing. Keeps you from sticking the point too deep and being messy. When that little well needs more ink you just tip the bottle a little and refill the small well.
With earthship homes becoming more popular even newer glass bottles are going to become more popular because a lot of earthships have bottle walls where entire walls will have bottles of various sizes as a center piece that doubles as functional. If you find an earthship group you can probably sell the bottles to them, they may even be able to use those broken jars and the like
:) good one, dave. we were metal detectoring near a lake, some weeks ago. found much trash in the hill, with it some glas bottles. i thought: "that one looks good, its old, must be worth some". so, it was from almost 100 years old, being sold at around 10euros. finding some old bottles in trashy places might be more regarding than finding coins with a 250euros metal detector, and u also clean the woods with that action!
Another hobby you can derive from the bottles you decide not to keep is glass knapping to make arrow heads (which can also be an useful survival skill 😉👍)
Remember as child searching for bottles/items in old trash piles. Still have two of them, 45 years later.
I live in Utah where their are a lot of old mines/ ghost towns, I like to search out these places. What surprises me is how often I find silver spoons. Kind of makes me wonder about the whole "being born with a silver spoon" saying.
This video was alot of fun it really felt like i was hanging out with mr Canterbury on his downtime hope you make more vids like this
The small jar with the inner lip is an ink bottle for fountain pens.
You have an ink well with the glass barrier in the throat. Ya fill the pen from the small reservoir made in the throat by the barrier. Bad form to dunk the pen all the way to the bottom of the bottle ...
Hello from here in the UK. Great video Dave. I found an old dump by a bitch a while back , all the bottles were broken with winter floods but the plus side to that was I collected dozens of perfect Victorian bottle bottoms for knapping points.
I haven’t been an avid bottle collector but I do have a small collection I’ve found around an old homestead on our property. I have a few of the blue Ball mason jars I found with the lids, also have some really cool Pet milk bottles from the 1920s.
Im actually really interested in this now . I think I might start :-)
Just got your book bushcraft 101. Love the knowledge you pass on to others.
Hey Dave, the bottle you found at 9:05 is a Sheaffer Skrip ink bottle. The little chamber at the top made it easier to fill your fountain pen when the bottle was running low. Probably from from the '40s or '50s Thanks for the video, and nice finds!
Did this as kids in the 80’s in pa ! Still know guys go out all the time
Now you know another one
Really interesting video. Good finds you got there. An other good thing with collecting bottles is to get the "trash" out of the woods. Thanks for sharing.
Wow... Never would have thought about looking for bottles... An interesting hobby to consider... Thanks Dave...
I too love to treasure hunt when in the woods. Thanks so much. You found some neat stuff.
Learned something new and useful today. Thank you for the upload Mr.Canterbury..
Right on Dave I love this stuff yesterday I found a stack of lisence plates 48 49 50 wind up tinker toy tractor marks toy truck embossed beer bottle that said brewery products limited fired 45 ish caliber mini ball and some brass and copper pipe for recycling . Iam gonna restore the toy truck . My wife says it's junk but it's treasure to me
Thanks for another great video. Im gonna get out and make another one myself this weekend. I look forward to seeing yours and learning new stuff.
That so cool like being a kid again
The small clear jar with the lip inside is an indian ink jar. It's designed that way so that you can tip it sideways and collect just enough ink at the right depth to dip a calligraphy pin in. They are actually still made that way and the design has changed little if any in the last seventy years. Good video. Actually went out and poked around an old dump today and got seven nice vintage marbles.
Thank you dave for videos,helps pass the time. Always great to learn new thing.
I used to metal detect for a while as I love history/archaeology & did study cultural sciences.
One man's trash can be another man's treasure 🤟
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The tiny jar with the extra glass webbing inside could possibly a collector's item, if that webbing is a manufacturing mistake. Coke, (I know that's not a coke bottle), use to have what's called a "Bird cage bottle". It was a manufacturing flaw in their old glass 1 liter bottles. The bottle would have a string a glass from one side to the other that resembled a pirch. Those were worth about $40 20 years ago.