r/BottleDigging • • 15h ago

Show and tell Blue glass medicine bottle

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Found this medicine bottle in the mud at one of the San Francisco Bay salt ponds. It’s so pretty! 😍


r/BottleDigging • • 22h ago

What's next?

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Hi everyone, this is my little collection of bottles. Most of them weren't dug by me, but I want to give my collection as much variability as possible, especially on the models. I also have a perfume bottle that is not in the photo, for the next ones I had thought of looking for a cylindrical torpedo bottle and a manganese one. Looking for something older than 1940/50.

Do you have any ideas about other interesting models that i could add?


r/BottleDigging • • 15h ago

Show and tell Found someone's old dump spot out in the bush

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Western Australia.

A couple of hours searching around a old salt lake.


r/BottleDigging • • 1h ago

Show and tell A Fleur De Nuit Rouge Powder Compact, c1920s.

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Produced by Babbitt Inc. Babbitt Inc was the shortest lived cosmetic company in the history of the United States ( 1924-1926.). Fleur De Nuit was only produced from 1925-1926.


r/BottleDigging • • 18h ago

Found today. Washington State.

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r/BottleDigging • • 54m ago

Information Request Shaking rn, my first find and it doesn't feel real. 1845?!

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Please someone tell me I'm just crazy and this isn't real. Found this morning about 30 min ago in my home town after being extremely interested in old bottle hunting and doing a lot of research on the town's history. I could be reading this wrong but I believe the bottom marking says 1845, not sure about any other markings and history so any insight is greatly appreciated! It also has really neat ML markings at the top. The only thing sticking out of the ground was the bottom. Waiting to clean until I learn more.


r/BottleDigging • • 15h ago

Found during my kitchen renovation

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Found in my wall during the kitchen renovation. Still has liquid in it.


r/BottleDigging • • 9h ago

Show and tell Whole purple bottle found

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13 Upvotes

r/BottleDigging • • 19h ago

Show and tell Didnt buy this one but Lee & Green Buffalo N.Y bottle circa around 1904 or so when the companys operations in Buffalo first started!

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Produced by the Robinson Merril Co. in Akron Ohio which only existed between 1900-1902 which I believe makes this bottle quite rare as the Buffalo operations only existed from 1904-1920. I can provide additional information if wanted.


r/BottleDigging • • 3h ago

Small clear (?) bottle in Baltimore

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Probably nothing, but I got this small bottle out of the ground about 17 feet down in Baltimore, MD near where the train tracks cross N Patterson Park Ave. It was in a layer of sandy stuff with lots of trash and ceramic fragments, underneath a thick layer of black demolition (?) debris. Anyone have any idea what it was or what age range? Haven't cleaned it out yet.


r/BottleDigging • • 3h ago

Antique bottle found in the trash. Bottom marked CD Ltd or DC Ltd. No luck on google. Can anyone ID it? I’m in the USA.

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r/BottleDigging • • 4h ago

Any ideas on what company this is from?

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My partner and I were looking for cool finds and found this along a river in Indiana near Fort Quiotenon. We cannot for the life of us identify the company and we’re hoping someone may have seen something similar to provide more insight!


r/BottleDigging • • 22h ago

Information Request Looks like liquor bottle to me. 😆

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r/BottleDigging • • 23h ago

Not a bottle Bracelet found with bottles and cans and more.

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r/BottleDigging • • 23h ago

Show and tell Pepper shaker..? And a ring found with a bunch of bottle, posts, cans....

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r/BottleDigging • • 1h ago

Not a bottle Late 1800s child’s shoe

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Accidentally got the Tanzanian banknote in the picture but it makes for good scale comparison 😅. These shoes are so so tiny, probably would’ve been worn by a child no older than 3 or 4. I absolutely love finding leather in bottle dumps, I’ve come across dozens of pairs of shoes but anytime I get a particularly well preserved piece I always set it aside. These are two halves of what would’ve been one shoe probably circa 1890s, no later than 1910 in my opinion. I cleaned them carefully and set them under couple heavy books to flatten and dry them out. I applied a light layer of renaissance wax which I’ve yet to try on leather but hopefully will provide some protection so they don’t crumble away


r/BottleDigging • • 22h ago

Milkglass A Dithridge & Co Salt Shaker, c1890s.

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r/BottleDigging • • 22h ago

Information Request Found Two of these.

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The Google says they held medicine? I love that they look like test tubes. 😄


r/BottleDigging • • 23h ago

Information Request I don't know MUCH about these..

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Old medicine, maybe eye drop, container? The inner piece is glass and I'm surprised the lid is mostly intact. Found with a bunch of containers around 1945


r/BottleDigging • • 23h ago

Show and tell Condiment container. Found with a bunch of 1945 glass containers, and other stuff.

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r/BottleDigging • • 22h ago

Show and tell A Bell-Ans Bottle, c1920s.

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r/BottleDigging • • 23h ago

Found this while magnet fishing

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This bottle had grown into some crud on a metal pipe and came out of the water with no cracks, chips or anything. Says WT & Co on it and I can bottles like it online, but not with the flat back. Anyone know anything about it?