I used to do a lot of bottle hunting

[Royal]

but I did it with scuba. I dove the St Clare River and all the local lakes. The river gave me a lot of medicine bottles and many were still corked and full of meds. There were some that were pontil bottles.

One thing I learned the hard way was to pull the corks out on bottom if I was able to,

I remember riding home and hearing little clinks and clanks from the back seat and finding it was the bottles breaking. I was bringing these bottles up from maybe 30 ft and the little bit of air or what ever gas was in there would expand when coming up that far. Thirty feet it will double.

Those old bottle makers did not have such a thing as quality control and the bottles were pretty thin in places. With the additional pressure some would crack. I always pulled the corks after that.

One bottle I found, it might have been one of the Safe Cure bottles, was corked and full of Medicine. I pulled the cork n the bottom and let the fluid float away. I got to the surface and broke out my book. It was, at that time, worth around 35 bucks but with the medicine it was worth double that. Oh well, it was down river.

Just something to remember

 

[Brian(upstateNY)]

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[Golden]

Hi Royal, I look for old bottles either snorkling or hookah diving to around 10ft. Found a few old green champagne and clear essence bottles. Nothing much else at this stage.

 

[Golden]

I mean, I've only found a few in the water, but a lot on land.
Just incase you were wondering what I meant!
Angela