any one dive old lakes looking for bottles

[scotthowes]

n/t

 

[DukeOBass]

We took a vacation about 12 years ago and I dove a lake in canada. I found quite a few. I haven't done any lake diving since. No one to go with and I don't like to dive solo although I did on that one.

 

[scubadetector]

Here are 2 I found this weekend.

CALNON & CRONK
MINERAL WATER
DETROIT

MASON'S
PATENT
NOV 30TH
1858

 

[gilaoro]

If that Blob Top Mineral Water is "Iron pontilled" it will bring at least $50, maybe a lot more if it is not cracked or chipped.

 

[scubadetector]

If that Blob Top Mineral Water is "Iron pontilled" it will bring at least $50, maybe a lot more if it is not cracked or chipped.

What is "Iron pontilled"??? It has one small chip in the top and no cracks.

 

[Marz]

I live near one of the Great Lakes and while I'm not that much into bottles, my wife and I do hunt for beach glass. It's a real trest when we find old cobalt glass. I'm hoping to someday soon design an electronic circuit that will "aid" in locating these tiny shards of colored glass more quickly. A colored LED will illuminate when its respective colored glass is sensed. Just as with metal detectors and ground balance, fals triggers, etc. those are the similar issues I'm trying to iron out when dealing with light and colors. The other glass items I enjoy are the old utility pole insulators... esp. the railroad variety.

 

[Storm]

i did not too long ago and i found one and i can't figure out where its from

 

[grumpyolman]

Dove a saltwater bay that was a shipbuilding site at the turn of the century. There were lots of docks to work on the boats. The townspeople would load up their garbage, put it in a wheelbarrow, and push it to the end of the dock and dump it. I bet I dove that spot 50 times with a couple of friends. Water was about 40' deep and visibility ranged from about 3' to 20'. Never stopped finding bottles there. It was particularly good hunting when there were storms and major tide changes. Lots of early glass found there. Sadly, we found lots of broken bottles that would have been beautiful whole. I think that's unusual for a water site because if you throw the bottle in the water it fills and sinks slowly and usually ends up on a silt bottom of some kind..Always wondered why so many were broken. Jim

 

[Lou from downunder]

Here in Victoria, Australia, back in the "old days", a popular passtime was going for lengthy cruises along the shores of Port Phillip Bay.
History has it that enormous amounts of alcohol were consumed on these voyages with the rubbish bins full of empties being dumped over the side once the boat was tied up at its home pier.
Sorrento was one of these piers and some 30 years ago some friends of mine made up a dredge and worked the surrounding area, trying desperately to keep things secret. I caught them in the act and swam over for a look. The amount of bottles they had recovered on this day was amazing and was indicative of what they had been pulling for weeks.
They made thousands out of this venture.
They also dived in rivers with old pubs on the banks or nearby, feeling in the mud for their bottles. Same deal, they found some fabulous and expensive bottles.
Sadly, dredging in all its forms is banned here in Vic, and most if not all states in Oz, denying us of this innocent pleasure and most of the rivers have been worked to death.
But, as no man gets it all, there is still the odd treasure out there waiting to be found.

Lou.