One thing leads to another

[kaolinwasher]

Hunted a woods and the silver Umax found a can and next to the can - an old bottle , only one other find a shotgun slug

 

[amberjack]

Kool bottle

AJ

 

[tabman]

Nice going ! That medicine bottle is worth around $10 bucks to a collector.

tabman

 

[amberjack]

I was watching a show the other day this guy had some kick butt bottles a poison bottle a blue one in the shape of a coffin was worth 20K only 6 known to exist might start looking for bottles

AJ

 

[Sven]

Nice bottle Gunnar, is there a small dump in the area? Look for more signs of glass or old rotted out blue iron ware pots and pans. Then dig and scratch away at the ground,
being careful not to break or damage any bottles you might find. By the way, there could be other goodies tossed in the dump of value. Good Luck.

Cobalt blue Poison bottles are some of the neatest bottles to find. Some will say poison with skull and crossbones, some will not but, will have ribs on them.
That way if you grab a medi bottle out of the cabinet at night and feel the ribs, you will know to look twice at what your about to ingest.

 

[Hightone]

Do metal detectors detect bottles? I hate to sound ignorant, but I never detected one. But I have noticed some treasure hunters find them.

 

[hatpin]

Thats a cool bottle. I dont think I have ever found one with the top flared like that.

 

[tabman]

Do metal detectors detect bottles? I hate to sound ignorant, but I never detected one. But I have noticed some treasure hunters find them.

No they won't detect them unless the bottle has a metal screw cap still attached to it. The old bottles had corks. You'd need a glass detector to find the old bottles.

tabman

 

[Hightone]

n/t

 

[kaolinwasher]

some info on the bottle . , and by the way you will always find metal junk with old bottles especially cans or i would have walked right over it . "Possibly the finest example of chemistry put to the service of deception was the Pinus Medicine Company of Los Angeles, which revived the traveling medicine show to promote its brand Fruitola. Billed as removing gallstones, Fruitola came in the form of a bottle of liquid and six powder papers. The customer was given detailed instructions for taking the liquid and the powders. Then, a casual examination of the stool the next morning would show gallstones: clear proof of efficacy. The customer was to repeat the $1 dose until there was no more evidence of stones.

The American Medical Association�s laboratory set to work on the contents of this miracle product. The liquid portion of Fruitola, they found, was olive oil with a bit of anise for flavoring. The papers contained Seidlitz powders, sodium bicarbonate and sodium potassium tartrate. The two combined to form globules of soap that looked, to the unpracticed eye, like gallstones." From.

The FDC was battling them as late as 1945.

 

[Fish N Chips]

Very nice history, that is a great find. Funny all the quack medicine that was around, I wonder what the future will look back on us and laugh at. I have not found many bottles other than broken fragments. The lava rock around me is very hard on glass.

 

[Lee66]

I know this is the Tesoro forum, and I am a Tesoro nut. But, I had a whites dealer tell me that the XLT would detect bottles if set up correctly by detecting the void created by the bottle in the soil. Any of you guys heard of this. I don't thing he was jerking my chain either. He is a well respected detectorist as well as a dealer.

Leeinsc

 

[JimmyCT]

Nice old medicine bottle Gunnar! Obviously from your information posted, they were filled with quackery.

 

[kaolinwasher]

Lee that may be true I remember my bliss tool would go off on an open hole , if the GB was set a certain way , Maybe that is how whites can do it itresting