Collecting Australian found Antique Bottles. Part 1 - An introduction to the hobby of old bottles

[@BoldLion]

Love Your bottles! I just started bottle digging about a year ago. I have always been interested in antiques and love older cars. Yet after my grandfather passed I have grown more in love with History. I'm grateful for channels like yours around the world that have inspired me into treasure hunting. I been metal detecting, magnicfishing, and bottle digging for 1/2-1 year!

[@TheUltimateRecycler]

Excellent mate! Best of luck in your treasure hunting adventures and I'm glad you appreciate the history! 👍😊

[@BoldLion]

@@TheUltimateRecycler Well of course with me getting older I just have enjoyed it more. when I was younger I liked the idea but now it's a joy. I even live in a old neighborhood that has homes dated from 1845-1950. Even my apartment house was built in 1920. I already have found a Marry Garden Makeup tin 124 years old,a 1930-1940 thimble and a vintage marble in the yard.

[@BoldLion]

@@TheUltimateRecycler Plus I had only one real grandfather growing up. When he went to heaven it really hit me. I really love the older generation!

[@treasurehuntingscotlandmud9340]

Some lovely old bits enjoyed

[@TheUltimateRecycler]

Thanks, glad you enjoyed this! I must do some more bottle videos soon!

[@Lea_1113]

Always had a few old bottles but now we have a heap found in our creek 'dump'. I would say no value but it really is fun to find one that's not broken. Need to clean them and work out how to display them

[@TheUltimateRecycler]

Awesome! I'll do a vid on cleaning bottles soon Leah 😊👍

[@Allisonloosemore]

Can you believe someone has this problem I’m blown away

[@TheUltimateRecycler]

Bottle hunting really is a disease! 🤣

[@Allisonloosemore]

@@TheUltimateRecycler I know.....right. So much so it’s causing “marital discord”...🙄

[@Allisonloosemore]

I’ve been perplexed for a bit longer than a short while, how I’m going to create an inventory for all these bottles.... no jokes.. but separating them into categories of type ,then age.. I already have probably 100,000 bottles and as many artifacts plus I do like to collect old broken bottles which I can get a feel for when I do find them whole..like I will save them to examine the base mark and crudity of the bottle as you describe.. antique China ..broken antique China I collect it too and glass especially with embossing on it.. also for the rarity of the colours and the trade stamps... same with the china and the makers’ hallmarks ..oh, and rusted tin.. with the impression of the product still very visible in the lids or body

[@Allisonloosemore]

I’ve been watching your KZbin videos for some time and you seemed to me to be the go to man for a problem of this tall order.

[@Allisonloosemore]

@@TheUltimateRecycler see below*.. also.. because I have an uncanny sense: a sort of ‘ draw’ to trust in your discretion, a bit like my uncanny sense in finding bottles.. this is Get Smart Code for keeping a low brow..

[@jpowell2197]

Hi mate, love these bottle videos, do you have a video on how you clean them???

[@TheUltimateRecycler]

Thanks JT. I don't but I am planning to do one! 👍

[@Allisonloosemore]

I’m scared to leave any I’m overwhelmed

[@TheUltimateRecycler]

Haha - don't forget to breathe! 😉🤣

[@Allisonloosemore]

@@TheUltimateRecycler that’s actually a problem I do get when confronted with an exciting problem of this magnitude

[@TheUltimateRecycler]

@@Allisonloosemore Breathe in... and out.... in.... out.. 😉

[@Allisonloosemore]

@@TheUltimateRecycler when I went there today.. I get frozen with a feeling of incompetence because it’s hard to get over myself

[@TheUltimateRecycler]

@@Allisonloosemore Don't over think it - just dig and find treasures!

[@Allisonloosemore]

Crazy

[@Allisonloosemore]

I know I definitely don’t want to delay and then someone else smuggling my cache . I’m going there now I will pm you some photos on fb

[@TheUltimateRecycler]

Perfect! Good luck 🤞

[@juliabauer5314]

Thanks for posting. I have a question regarding bottles made by Australian Glass Manufacturers. I've come across a couple of brown glass beer bottles with the flat topped AGM logo on them. They have a crown top and no stippling on the base. There are letters/numbers embossed under the AGM logo that read ISM-I or ISM-1 and under that is the number 76. There are also numbers/letters embossed on the heel: 6 on top of an OB in a circular dimple on one side and a 76 embossed on the opposite side. Can you tell me is there any way to determine the manufacture date of these bottles based on this info? Thanks!

[@TheUltimateRecycler]

Hi Julia. Your bottle sounds 1940s or 50s.. but it's always hard to tell from just a description. You are welcome to post a pic to "The Ultimate Recycler" facebook page and I'll have a look. Usually bottles aren't dated specifically and the numbers refer to mold & batch codes I believe. Cheers, Chris

[@juliabauer5314]

@@TheUltimateRecycler Brilliant!! Thank you!

[@Allisonloosemore]

@@juliabauer5314 I’m sorry Julie..

[@Allisonloosemore]

@@TheUltimateRecycler ,I apologise if I have hijacked your thread.. sorry Julie🤭🤭😕

[@Allisonloosemore]

Chris, I have found a massive amount of antique bottles at a tip in a dry lake. I don’t know what to take and what to leave and I need your advice please!

[@TheUltimateRecycler]

Have you joined my facebook page? You could post some pics there for advice 👍 facebook.com/groups/104591540364824

[@Allisonloosemore]

@@TheUltimateRecycler will do

[@Allisonloosemore]

@@TheUltimateRecycler I actually had alot to do yesterday and want to put in a few hours there and it just couldn’t work.. plus it’s a 60 km drive. I had a bit of a breather and felt better after contacting you and expressing my astonishment and absolute overwhelming dilemma

[@Allisonloosemore]

But I am struggling to work out a plan

[@TheUltimateRecycler]

So many comments! You must be excited!!

[@rosettaeagle1718]

I have a blue bow lemonade bottle

[@TheUltimateRecycler]

Where's that one from Rose?

[@Allisonloosemore]

I love them all and plan to resell them and this is a domestic waste tip omg what to do

[@TheUltimateRecycler]

Sounds exciting!! 😀

[@Allisonloosemore]

@@TheUltimateRecycler really is oh wow..I was there the other night until after midnight just manically rambling around like a mad professor and sizing things up ..I left my wheelbarrow there

[@Allisonloosemore]

A good problem to have

[@dancingvirgil]

So in 50 years will vintage plastic bottles be collectable 🤔

[@TheUltimateRecycler]

Some actually may be! Collectability and value result from things being old enough to have a historic and emotional appeal - and scarcity... they need to be hard to obtain!