the Magic of…
“Old bottles are beautiful. The glass is flecked with air bubbles and tears; the stoneware burned to a fine gritty texture never seen on modern pottery… And were are these bottles to be found? The fact is that they are all around us – in rivers, in ponds and in long-forgotten rubbish dumps…. Millions of 19th-century bottles were exported from Britain as food and drink containers and as ships´ballast… Dig any 19th-century dump in North America or Australia – and you will find British bottles of that period….” Edward Fletcher, Bottle Collecting, 1972
Terry Matz
the Canadian is every year “The Torpedo Bottle King” of the Toronto Bottle Show. Specializes in all manner items relating to torpedo bottles including molds and pressure guages. He has a lot of coloured glass on his table, pontiled glass and early stoneware and other Canada West trade merchandise. His reference-site for eggbottles is a must seen: http://www.torpedobottle.com
Mike Sheridan
this is the UK’s and Europe’s oldest and longest established old bottle, potlid and advertising site. Online since March 1997. Have a look at some amazing old bottle related labels and advertising ephemera.Find out more about the great hobby of bottle digging. Find a UK Bottle Club near to where you live ! Use our FAQ link to see if you really do have an old bottl. Searching for information about a particular bottle or company ? Do you want some help and advice with ages and dates of your items. Do you need to know the value ? Do you want to find out about bottle clubs and shows in your area? If so please navigate on through our links page and try one of the quality links: http://mikesheridan.tripod.com/index.htm
Bottles Heaven
Antique Bottle Collector’s Haven – welcome to the leading educational Internet site for finding, buying, selling and learning about Antique Bottles! If you want to learn more about a particular category of bottle, or simply find out “how much is my old bottle worth?”, then you’ve come to the right place: http://www.antiquebottles.com/
Dooly Bottleking
finally after thousands of hours and many broken ones he got one of these north east classic bottles: bottle-digger Dooly Bottleking and the 30 year mission to hand dig a local blue:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoyQpZP8sqk
Must seen: Digger Kilroy
hardcore british bottle digging – a tough site, taken on by diggerkilroy, an 1880s Victorian rubbish dump on the outskirts of a large industrial town is the venue. “Most enjoyable bottle digging vids on Youtube, thanks and keep them coming!”DrummondsPoint “Main reason for broken codd bottles is because the kids of the day would smash the bottle to get to the marble,there were no health and safety in those days so kids would be waitng for a cart to turn up at the dump and break our hearts years later..” tony74jsy VIDEOS:
https://www.youtube.com/user/diggerkilroy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3Pf9SZ5UiA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJzdlB3j_d0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcdyZFmQXz8
Australian Diggers
is a website designed for services associated with metal detecting BUT it also has an easy to use and ever expanding price guide database of antique bottles from Australia and around the world.We are collectors just about anything but primary bottles and coins. To support other collectors we have added an auction results guide to help other collectors assess the value of there bottle or coin they just found: http://www.australiandiggers.com.au/
a digging action…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yATVVecuQM
Boston Backhoe Bottle Dump Dig. Bill Ladd, Tylor & John, head North of Boston to meet a landowner with a bottled dump on private property, & a backhoe. Yeaaah! In a just few hours, several hundred bottles from the turn of the century & a jug come to light. Thanks for watching!
…two as a contrast
Digger Kilroy burrows into the earth for Victorian bottles. Alan Klein makes bottles in his spare time. Glass, surfaces, topology, history – all have the potential to melt together in this short documentary.Ian Digger Kilroy: Heres a vid made by luke moody,i did with him a while back to help spread the word, it was entered into a number of film festivals with a bit of success, im sure there is scope to do something much more commercial if the right site came up. Bottle Digging and Bottle Blowing – Ian Digger Kilroy resume the pure quality aspects of consistency with a secret of the snails. must seen between! spiritschweppes.com
Renovation
Paul in GB is Digger, expert, cleaner, renovator: with very best recommendations !
Father and Son They are putting in a a few more houses in my neighborhood where an old home site was. They scraped the dirt to put the new road in, and I noticed that there was some glass and junk on the surface. Jake and I started digging and this is what we found.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVU-uHCsBAI&feature=youtu.be
Wow – heavy load 🙂
Funny action with Teesside Digger!
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1401294416785460&set=pcb.1401294483452120&type=1&theater
The Schweppes Bottle in the World Collection:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/233837880159091/?fref=ts
Support in private partnership
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Greetings Hans
I read your article “Storytelling Schweppes since 1783 in the Bottles and Extra magazine. It was very interesting. I mainly collect Coca-Cola bottles, but do have a few Schweppes items.
I have a Schweppes bottle much like the one on page 38 of Bottles and Extra magazine (The photo has a Coca-Cola bottle, Schweppes and Coca-Cola books)
I never knew there was a holder for the bottle to be able to sit upright on a table for serving. I would be very interested in finding one to go with my bottle. Do you know where I could find one to purchase? I can send you photos of my bottle as well as dimensions if that is needed.
You have a very interesting collection. Thank you for sharing it in the article.
Thank you
Doug McCoy
Hi Dough,
you are my first contact to the Cokecollectors-World “over the ocean”. Thank you for your interest and your time.
After my article “Storytelling Schweppes” I started the blog https://spiritschweppes.com/ You´ll find a lot of details.
The bottle-holders of your interest are so called “Bottle Stands”. They were used in the upper class dining rooms of the Victorian Age, for sure by the Royal Family too 🙂
I send you a chart with examples. These botttle-stands are rare items. You can find them on ebay (US/GB), the price starts by 100 USD for non marked ones. Marked and silver ones are extremly rare.
I would be happy to share more know how between Coke & Schweppes!
All the best for you,
Hans-Juergen
Hans
Thank you for sharing your knowledge. Now I have something else to look for to add to my collection, a bottle stand.
I am sure I will have more questions in the future.
Doug
You really make it seem so easy with your presentation but I find this topic to be really something that I think I would never understand. It seems too complicated and extremely broad for me. I’m looking forward for your next post, I will try to get the hang of it!
Klasse Geschichte – fleißig recherchiert und gesammelt. Wir freuen uns auf mehr!
Danke euch, bleibt dran. Donnerstag gehts weiter mit Bottlediggern rund um den Globus. Dr.h.c.Schweppes
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