Cleaning vintage bottles is a task that blends history with restoration. Whether you bought an old coke bottle at a flea market or stumbled upon a trove of antique glass, knowing how to properly get ...
While Victorian bottles might be elaborately painted or etched, they usually had only corks or small glass ball stoppers. Even elegant Lalique bottles made in France at the turn of the century had ...
HICKORY CORNERS — Scott Hendrichsen kept sticking a steel rod in the ground until he found what he was looking for. It was 150-year-old poop. Hendrichsen's hobby is collecting antique glass bottles — ...
VIRGINIA BEACH — Finding debris underground on a construction site isn’t uncommon, but contractors say the amount of vintage glass turning up at the site of the Atlantic Park project has been ...
After a sudden riverbank collapse, a hidden stash of vintage glass bottles was exposed, some dating back nearly a century. From medicine vials to old soda classics, each bottle tells a story buried ...
Mary Duke has a couple of thousand bottles in his attic. There are more in the house, some on shelves, some stashed in drawers. Many of them came directly out of the damp, dark Houston gumbo along ...
Mike Cavanaugh’s kayak takes him into the Great South Bay, Hewlett Bay and Reynolds Channel, but the antique glass bottles he finds there take him through bygone eras as far back as the 1800s.
BILOXI, MS (WLOX) - There can be a lot of history inside a bottle. A group of antique bottle and glass collectors on the Gulf Coast enjoy searching for glass objects and learning about history along ...
The first bottle that Hank Hallam purchased 40 years ago was a reproduction historic flask for the sum of three bucks. The bottle would be worth about $12 today, but Hank and his wife, Pat, began ...
WESTFORD — Walk into an antique-bottle show, and you are bound to learn some lessons about the social history of this country. The Merrimack Valley Antique Bottle Club held its show Sunday at the ...