More treasures found!

[HappyYooper]

Y'all may think I'm silly but I love finding bottles, old rusty iron...anything "different"...these are my latest finds...

[Gregg Alexander]

Nope not silly. I look for stuff like that for resale at flea markets. This spring , I sold gold rings, necklchains , old coins for scrape , I had collected for over $2200. In May, I set up a booth at local community fair, sold lots of old bottles, jugs, hand made table cloths all kinds of stuff, found at old home places. One person's junk is another treasure. A couple of yrs ago , I sold a kitchen table that was over 125 yrs old , found in a old house. All , I did was clean it up , not re finish it, for $250.

[HappyYooper]

I would love to sell also but I don't have a clue as to pricing items...any tips you can share?

[NickieL]

hey I'm not one to judge, someone's trash is another's treasure. I'm guilty of dragging home all kinds of bones, rocks, feathers, etc all the time. Those are really neat finds.

[HappyYooper]

Well, I'm glad I'm not alone! I need to clean up everything & I have a lot more...one thing I have no clue what it was used for...we found 2 mountain dew bottles and a few PBR bottles too...

[salmonslayer]

Very cool bottles, where did you find them?

[wanda1950]

These are wonderful! We have a big collection my husband has dug up--he is a heavy equipment operator and sometimes has the opportunity to pick. My favorite is a cathedral pepper sauce bottle from the civil war--it's a very light blue color.

I have been able to find the value of some of these on the internet but so far we haven't had the heart to part with them. Some are fairly valuable--we've got a green mineral water bottle from Saratoga Springs that's valued at around $600; but of course you'd have to find an interested collector.

[newfieannie]

you'd be surprised at what i drag home. i collect bottles also. yours look to be old. they'd bring a good price at some of the flea markets around here. ~Georgia.

[Buzz Killington]

Love this kind of "junk." I think it's the small connection we get with our past that does it for me.

This site might be helpful:
Historic Bottle Website - Homepage

[ArkansasLady]

how will you clean them?

[stamphappy]

Love your collection, I especially like the clear glass bottle shown last with the wide round shoulders.

[Gregg Alexander]

I have found form experience pricing not a science. I price things at what I would give for it. My wife sold a 1 gal jug had a small chip out of the neck at the local flea market last week, for $25. I really think she under sold it but what the heck $25 was better than packing it up again, the lady was happy and so was I.

[farmmom]

I love old glass bottles!! Very cool!!

[Ravenlost]

I'm also a lover of old bottles and found objects. I really love that last bottle pictured! I also enjoy researching items online. Found out that an old vinegar bottle we found in my mom's sheds was worth $75! Who would have thought an old vinegar bottle would be that valuable?

[Backfourty,MI.]

I think all that stuff is really cool & I'd have brought it home too!

[jlxian]

Great finds! I too love love love this kind of find. In the winter I mine the old dump on our place and look for this kind of thing. My favorite find so far has been a cobalt blue iodine/merthiolate bottle complete with glass application wand. Or maybe that china dolls head that scared me to death looking up out of the trash at me.

[mamita]

count me in for loving old bottles. our flea markets always have people selling, and they get quite pricey! when I see a bargain, I scoop. I adore old green glass bottles and now have 6. great finds! (all the lovely rusted items I'd put on an old bench beside my little garden house. I envy!)

[Bandit]

We don't pass up old bottles if they are cheap or in a box lot .
Won a box lot of 3 boxes for $ 7.50 , I wanted the Skill Screw Gun in the lot , had an Old 1 gal. coke syrup bottle in it , wife sold it to a good friend and fellow dealer at Brimfield for $ 35.00 and she was asking $ 75. but will sit on it till she gets it .
Last Sun. the wife bought a tarnished silver candy dish for .25 , tore it apart and ended up 48 Grams of Silver out of it worth $ 41.83
Precious Metal Calculator from Dendritics
Bandit
Ps
I like Our New policy when hitting auctions , flea markets and yard sales .
Nothing Bigger Than A Bread Box

[mammabooh]

Hubby and I love old bottles too. We have an old junk pile on our property, so we like to go back there and dig for treasure every once in a while.