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Here are some of my random bottle finds, I found some of them just walking through the woods I'm not sure what they were used for.
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Posted 8 years ago
Destiny.Je…
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Here are some of my random bottle finds, I found some of them just walking through the woods I'm not sure what they were used for.
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Take me on a trip next time! Wow, these are some amazing finds for just a walk through the woods. I'm a bit puzzled as to how these types of bottles turned up on the surface just randomly...expert diggers, your thoughts?
the first one is a Hutchinson soda bottle, second is a medicine/druggist bottle, as well as the third one "Citrate of Magnesia". I can't see very well what the fourth one says, but generally, if something is written on it, you can find some basic info on the internet. If you don't find much, Spirit can post his "Bottle Info Search 101" tutorial :-P
If you'd like a more detailed info on any of them, please post pics of tops and bottoms, see if the seams run all the way to the top (i highly doubt they do in the case of #1, #3, and #5)- it makes it easy to ID their age.
Cool finds, congrats! Look for more.
Pic 1. Bottle 1. Is the Wolf from Detroit? Those were beer if so, I believe. It looks like a Hutchinson, as said already. Low potential that it's a Matthew's Gravitating Stopper bottle.
Bottle 2 looks like a Listerine?
Bottle 3. Citrate of Magnesia-- common medicine that actually worked. Looks like 1900-1920s. Do the seams go up to the top? The med. makes you go poop.
Bottle 4. looks like an iodine.
Bottle 5. is a John Graf of Milwaukee bottle. Later 1800s, I believe. He was one of their biggest bottlers. I'm not sure anyone ever figured out the "Best What Gives" statement. I think that one is a beer.
Thanks for the info very helpful.
Spirit, any ideas why they were scattered in the woods and not buried under by at least many years of decomposed leaves and other debris?
Our pleasure, Destiny. Some very interesting bottles there.
Anna: It depends. Ground isn't motionless. Things get pushed up by 'shifting sands', to quote pop-culture. Things get sucked down when the rains come. Rain can (does) also erode, though. My local Dr. Pepper bottle, linked at the bottom, was found after the year's biggest rain (a couple years ago now). See it still in the ground.
In deciduous (seasonal [Fall, spring, winter, summer] with mostly leafy trees) and some pine forests, plant debris cover a bottle, but wind and rain can move them off as easily as trees dump them on. Sometimes a tree tips over and exposes bottles dumped there when it was young or when it was not yet there. I've climbed tipped trees, with their walls of roots, and pulled out shards that had been trapped in the dirt just beneath the tree (high water tables or easy access to surface water mean trees don't sink their roots deep, and are then more likely to fall.)
Sometimes the ground is too packed for a bottle to sink in, and the duff (leaf litter) doesn't accumulate. Fires also eat duff.
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I see. Good to know. Thanks!
Thank you so much for all the love and info