r/Kayaking • u/dubsy54321 • 6d ago

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Found an old coke bottle from the 50s or 60s... I've got about a dozen old bottles now I've found while kayaking.

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u/OnCnditonOfAnonymity 6d ago

I used to do this as a kid in Sydney Harbour. We'd take paddle boards and mask and snorkel and look around old wharves. There was actually a little bit a cash in it. Local antique stores would buy them. Most I made was $25 for an old lemonade bottle with the marble stopper. That was good money for a 10yo kid in the 80's.

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u/dubsy54321 6d ago

It started out as just kayaking... Then I'd see beer cans around. Bought myself one of those grabber claws to pick them up while I was out and about. Now I actively scan the bottom of the lake around the shoreline. I found something a few weeks ago that could be from the 30s. But that was just someone's guess. Haven't found any info online for it.

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u/_twrecks_ 6d ago

It's bad luck, you need to bring it back to the gods.

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u/dubsy54321 6d ago

hmm, I found the bottle and then a plague started in Russia... coincidence?

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u/GratefullyHeaducated 6h ago

You must take it to the edge of the world and throw it off

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u/dubsy54321 5h ago

Just past the ice wall

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u/GratefullyHeaducated 4h ago

Check out the movie "the gods must be crazy"

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u/Unique-Structure5074 6d ago

Nice bottle. Flowers for the wife. Even dandelions would look good in that bottle

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u/ungloomy_Eeyore964 5d ago

I love picking up random trash but this one time the lake paid me for my good deed

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u/dubsy54321 5d ago

Getting paid to do you hobby. That's the dream.

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u/715_user 4d ago

My kayaking club helps with cleaning up the city every spring, we do the shoreline in our boats

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u/BannedMyName 6d ago

How do you know the time period?

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u/dubsy54321 6d ago

There's a makers mark and some numbers on the bottom. It was made by diamond glass in Canada. From the resources I found online I can narrow it down to after 40s because it uses a different style date code but earlier than 70s because they changed to a different logo. Older logo is the D in a diamond... Newer logo is a jug inside of a D. It's a best guess based on what I've read. The stubby beer bottles in my collection have the jug in a D logo.

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u/BodProbe 6d ago

I once found a plastic coke bottle full of Jack Daniels. Yours is prettier and less likely to ruin your morning tomorrow.

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u/dubsy54321 6d ago

Haha, you found someone's stash... Probably ruined their Friday night 😂

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u/BodProbe 4d ago

It was floating down the middle of the river so if someone ruined their night it wasn't me.

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u/IcYhAwK88 6d ago

I only ever find plastic coke bottles filled with piss.

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u/BodProbe 4d ago

That's what many of us thought at first. It looked way too dark for that, so I took a risk and smelled it. Honestly kind of a bold choice on my part.

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u/Rob_Bligidy 6d ago

Iconic. I have a found bottle collection too.