OT: Old Bottles

RBnSC · Jun 4, 2011

Thought I would share some pictures of some of my old bottles I have found over the years.First two are nothing special Canada Dry Club Soda Water,still full maybe forty years old. Next is a Congress Water from Saratoga NY. Found it digging in downtown Charleston SC. Next is few others I have saved.
I saved the Club Soda because when growing up some one left one just like it at My Grandmothers house.I remember thinking that was the stupidest thing I had ever heard of people buying bottled water. The Congress Spring water bottle is around 130 to 140 years old beautiful green bottle. Saved it because of the color and the irony of finding it in Charleston.
Just goes to show you how wrong you can be and there is nothing new under the sun.
Ron

Anonymous-0 · Jun 4, 2011

Nice to collect things that you don't have to fix and have garages to store them in :roll:
Grew up next to a RR track and used to find a bunch of stuff from old (marker??) spikes totelegraph/phone pole insulators. Then got into arrowheads and had a bunch that I found in several states.
Ex wife relieved me of the burden of taking care of all of them as soon as I came over here.

Nice pics tho.

Dave

DownSouth · Jun 4, 2011

That is pretty interesting, especially about the water. I"ve collected a lot of things in my life, but never bottles but certainly saw a lot of old ones over the years. I"m curios what the bottle is that I have the arrow pointing at? It looks like it has a tree on the front of it.

RBnSC · Jun 4, 2011

That is a Palmetto Brewing beer bottle. Fairly common bottle saved it because it had cork and remnants of wire.
Ron

Anonymous-0 · Jun 4, 2011

Nice Bottles.......... Keep an eye out for SC Dispensary bottles.. I would like a 1 pint round amber with the Palmetto tree embossed.. :^)

DownSouth · Jun 4, 2011

Ah hah, I thought it looked sort of like a palmetto tree. Looks like it was underground for a little while.
Now if you can just find a Fred Sanford bottle, remember he mixed champaign and Ripple and drank Champipple?

RBnSC · Jun 4, 2011

I have had a number of Dispensary Bottles usually trade them for pictures of dead Presidents. Never found one like that, they are pretty rare.
Ron

Fergienewbee · Jun 4, 2011

I used to dig an old dump site beside an old cemetary a few years ago. You could dig out 100 perfect lightbulbs or catsup bottle but most of the good bottles--bitters, medicine, Duffy's Malt Whiskey, etc.--had cracks. Still have a few old bottles in the basement.

Larry

Billy NY · Jun 4, 2011

That is kind of ironic to have found a Congress Water bottle from Saratoga NY, which is not far from our farm. Saratoga Springs was known for the spring water and alleged benefits, which kind of put it on the map. Saratoga Vichy and other products were common around here. Just a little south is a bottle museum, in Ballton Spa,-sp is wrong (please add an S after the second L in Ballton, ps- potty filter on this site and the poof master are a pain in the @ss !!!!) though I've collected old bottles since I was a kid, don't know much about that one, there is a Congress street in Saratoga, and a few Business's have used that name, one was a Mobil fuel supplier. Must have been a name used for a bottler of the famed springs, neat place if you ever visit, the race track is well known, season is coming up at the end of July.

old popper · Jun 4, 2011

Uh huh. Only up nort. Canada has Dry water, down here in the States we have WET water. LOL Nice bottles though.

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