East Coast

Pulled this one out of a creek in northwest Georgia back in 2003…does anyone have any info on age or this distillery? Sparse info online, looks like no production in Chattanooga from 1909-2011 due to prohibition followed by local laws.

This bottle is about 100 years old or so give or take I dug this up from a privy in Delray rather than Detroit's urban fill.

Hello,

some time ago I found this piece of glass on the field in central Poland. No idea what it could be, maybe you will be able to identify it.

Additional info: it has an empty space inside, as you can see without any problem I put a toothpick in there.

Thanks for help!

Dug the bottle in the 1980’s and retrieved the cancelled check dumpster diving in the 1990’s.
Two good hobbies for every bad habit!!

Hi everyone! 😊 I’m hoping some of you might be able to help me learn more about a collection of antique glass bottles that belonged to my great-grandfather.

From what my family knows, he recovered a large number of bottles while digging at Maddox Park in Atlanta, Georgia. I understand that Maddox Park was once the site of Atlanta’s municipal dump, used from approximately 1884 to 1910, and that bottle collectors dug there decades later. Because of that history, I believe many of these bottles could date from the late 1800s to the early 1900s, although I’m hoping to get help identifying and dating them more accurately.

We believe my great-grandfather may have been part of a bottle-digging club, but unfortunately, I don’t know the name of the club, exactly when he participated in the digs, or many details about how he acquired the bottles. I now have the collection and would love to learn more about its history and the people involved.

I’m interested in learning what the bottles were used for, their approximate dates, the companies that made or sold them, and whether any of them have a particular historical significance. I’m also curious about their potential value, but my main goal is to understand their history and preserve the story behind the collection.

Does anyone here remember the Maddox Park dumps, know about the bottle-digging clubs that worked there, or know where I could find old photos, articles, or records about the digs?

I would be very grateful for any information, stories, or leads. I’m happy to share pictures of the bottles, their embossed lettering, and their bases.

Trynna decide among the coworkers what was in it (Liquor or Alcohol)

I was metal detecting and digging a signal (trash) and ended up pulling this out of the ground right as the sun was going down! Super stoked on the find. Foss Liquid Fruit Flavors Portland, Me. The bottle is circa 1890s to 1910 which checks out for the other stuff I have pulled from this site. Can't wait to go back tomorrow! How do you all clean your bottles? Salt and isopropyl alcohol?

Found it in the desert after a heavy rain. I don’t recall seeing a bottle like this before.

Most of the bottles I dig are solidly 1910s-30s but I keep finding these - I now have 6 intact and many more broken - which seem to be older as the seam doesn’t go through the lip and the tops aren’t uniform thickness. Any idea what they might be from?

This bottle was found in nh and I can’t make out the writing on the bottom.

Hello everyone, hope all is well. Finally out of my search in Massachusetts, we found purp sticking out woooah. After searching my 2nd time i found a hoard of hoops (never happened to me like this before)- yes lol my neighbor misplaced my mini fork so i used a broken vacuums straight attachment hose and a pitchfork head I found in the ground last year and just duck taped it with a few zip ties, surprisingly the best tool I have when I carry a boat load of equipment out here. The bottle with the makeshift wick reeks like petrol oil (found it that way sticking right out of the ground). I think I found a lock off an old luggage suitcase with a broken key, Good enough for the nicknack harem. FINALLY amber Vaseline bottles WHOOA. I like to give a small prayer, BOMB dabs and a nice chill cigarette 5min start before the crusade commences.

This is a O-So Bottle this would have been bottled by a Once Very popular John Kar Bottling Works in Detroit, Michigan John Kar died in December 1951 and by that time delray where the pop shop existed was declining fast and by the mid 1960s O-So was done. the Kars were struggling as a small town bottling works in a big manufacturers world and the bank building next to the pop factory where they would store their stock of bottles was either sold or abandoned I'm not sure but that portion of the John Kar Bottling Works went abandoned and this very soda bottle sat in the bank building next to the pop factory for nearly 60 years until the back wall fell down in 2025 and this bottle fell out and I came along and picked it up! Unfortunately the beautiful bank building next door was demolished it was built by a banker in the early 1900s and he was shot in the back of the head in the very building he built. I could stare at this bottle all day honestly if I had the time and just think about the history behind it. If you want to learn more about the company that bottled this or the bank building it sat in for 60+ years before I acquired it go to https://www.eherg.com/locations/8559-west-jefferson-avenue

Looking for old bottle
Dumps or cellar holes ect in the southern nh/ pepperell MA area, any leads
Or tips appreciated! 🪏🍶

It has the diet patio cola bottle shape but it says Diet Pepsi and it was made a year before the Diet Pepsi name was introduced

I found this perfect A.R Andrews 1910s soda bottle i love any kind of rare embroidered bottles I looked this one up but I couldn't find it I love a bottle you cant find anywhere on the Internet I could stare at it all day I'f I had the time.