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  • @drekpaprika
    @drekpaprika 4 года назад +4668

    BEWARE: i guy from my village once thought he found a ww2 aluminum bottle. He picked it up and opened the lid. Turned out it was not a ww2 bottle but a ww1 clorine gas canister - still sealed. He died of clorine poisoning after opening it up. You probably wont find anything like that in the US, but in Europe you can. So beware people.
    Also: this hobby is a good way to get some trash out of the woods. Cheers from Slovenia.

    • @96Logan
      @96Logan 4 года назад +309

      Woah, that's a very real danger where you are. Probably wouldn't have that problem here in Minnesota, US, but thanks for the insight

    • @vospersb.thorneycroft602
      @vospersb.thorneycroft602 4 года назад +105

      Hello ☺️
      Read about the Japanese using balloons to attack the USA! They used the high altitude jet stream to get them here. The Government told the media of the day to keep quiet about it they did. Fat chance of that happening today! The Japanese gave up when no reports we happening about there plan. In Washington State a family ran across one and some were injured.
      SCE SQUIRRELS:. "Stay alert, stay safe!". Ad campaign!

    • @Emiliapocalypse
      @Emiliapocalypse 4 года назад +189

      Yikes!! That could have happened to me. When I was a kid I was playing in my aunt’s back yard in Finland, and it had a stream running through it. While I was looking for minnows, I found an old cannon ball. Could have found an old explosive instead, and naturally curious me woulda been a goner.
      This stuff’s still out there more than you’d expect. Last year the government sent out letters to beach front property owners in Cape Cod, Massachusetts merely informing them a long time ago they buried mines on the beach, and that they’re probably still under there. Kinda a bit late to be letting people know, don’t you think?
      Thanks for posting that story!

    • @Spacestorm50
      @Spacestorm50 4 года назад +6

      @@96Logan Greetings from Minneapolis area :D

  • @jharbo1
    @jharbo1 4 года назад +1814

    Dave, it is an ink bottle. The glass shelf is where you put your pen to draw the ink into the barrel with a little leaver on your fountain pen. Before fountain pens, the quill was dipped in the glass shelf.

  • @humzilla707
    @humzilla707 4 года назад +2783

    Hiking on mushrooms and looking for trash is definitely my favorite hobby

  • @osiris3103
    @osiris3103 4 года назад +1132

    I live in Europe and my first house was in the historical center of rather old city - more than 800 years old in fact. It had a nice garden, but more importantly a barred and chained entrance to the old city underground system on the outside wall of that garden. Now this being a city with a big vineyards and wine-making tradition, this underground system was used mostly for manufacturing and storing said wine. So of course one day I broke in - after all, it wasn't owned by no one and city back then didn't really cared about it. Found out the underground spanned all under the city, although most of the routes were either collapsed, flooded or blocked by some previous owners. Few of them were not and among regular trash, I found a huge pile of empty wine bottles. Quite a number of them antique. It took me two days to carry them all out and clean them and all in all, there were more than 200 of very old bottles in pretty okay condition. I did my research and found out that many of these are quite valuable. I sold majority of them right after to collectors. Money from that little adventure paid my rent for good half a year. I've kept few best looking ones and I still have them.

  • @canyondiva493
    @canyondiva493 4 года назад +251

    That big brown bottle with the “A” on the bottom actually has an “H” over the “A” which is the mark of Hazel Atlas. Lots of collectors for Hazel Atlas glass.

  • @jonahzang2312
    @jonahzang2312 4 года назад +775

    When I was younger I was pretty into bottle digging I actually found some medicine bottles from the late 1800s.

  • @corywoods6
    @corywoods6 4 года назад +729

    I found a green bottle in the woods about 35 years ago. As a kid I thought it was cool so I kept it. Gave it to my wife years when dating with a single rose in it. Still have it.

  • @justa.american8303
    @justa.american8303 4 года назад +64

    The bottle dated 9/1952 was the month and year I was born! How cool is that!

  • @GunNtonic
    @GunNtonic 4 года назад +1280

    I wish they still used glass for everything...

    • @aznative_
      @aznative_ 4 года назад +85

      @Kurt M. that's what someone who doesn't care about environmental impact would say.

    • @Mandalore06
      @Mandalore06 4 года назад +229

      I agree. I don't care as much about chemical bottles, but I definitely prefer glass for food and beverages. Drinks in particular taste better out of glass, and they seem to get colder.

    • @slobbucket
      @slobbucket 4 года назад +45

      @@aznative_ glass would impact the environment more unless you used it 1000 times

    • @seanrobb9894
      @seanrobb9894 4 года назад +39

      A lot of places no longer recycle glass. If you don't reuse it yourself it ends up in a landfill.

    • @inhumanfilth681
      @inhumanfilth681 4 года назад

      @@aznative_ apologies i misread your comment lols

  • @Noblesquire
    @Noblesquire 4 года назад +394

    I found a very old Pepsi bottle once. Cleaned it out and set it on the fence to dry. My kids went outside, saw it and decided to use it for target practice with rocks. Busted it all the pieces. Damn kids... ☹️

  • @shadomane
    @shadomane 4 года назад +878

    You'd be surprised at what so collectors will pay for an old soda bottle. A fews years back I came across an old "Dr. Pepper" bottle that was manufactured in texas at the Three Rivers Bottle company. I sold it on an Ebay auction for US$274.

    • @GothicLeviathan
      @GothicLeviathan 4 года назад +4

      Damn

    • @Mandalore06
      @Mandalore06 4 года назад +6

      Dadgum! I didn't know they went for that kind of scratch.

    • @ironczar8975
      @ironczar8975 4 года назад +2

      Thats pretty awesome

    • @MichaelMichael-iz1jq
      @MichaelMichael-iz1jq 4 года назад +27

      Now I feel dumb, people used to camp out at a property we went to and we found a lot of old bottles that we shot.

    • @madjack821
      @madjack821 4 года назад

      No shit?

  • @bethechangeme2233
    @bethechangeme2233 4 года назад +706

    My dad often warned me about this: "If ever you see an old tin box wedged in an old stone wall leave it there son". It turns out that back when poisoning was legal here in Ireland it was common place for hunters to leave their little can of poison wedged in a stone wall somewhere, away from the house and the kids I suppose, and that many a such can was forgotten about and probably remains there to this day. A curious smell or taste or even a touch might be enough to kill a person, especially a curious child. Its good to know these things so they can be avoided and such hobbies enjoyed safely. I'm not trying to put people off, especially young people, because I've had many an enjoyable day metal collecting and in fact I know of a place full of old bottles going back 80-120 years that I'm going to have to check out. Its a shame more young people are not interested in such hobbies rather then playing video games, its good however for them to know the few pitfalls so they can continue these wonderful hobbies safely. God bless.

  • @DavidGatto
    @DavidGatto 4 года назад +62

    One man's trash, is another man's treasure - found an 1888 glass electrical conductor from the first telegraph line in Mountain View. Gave it to a friend, it's still on his mantle😊

  • @kevola5739
    @kevola5739 4 года назад +202

    That 50 year old Listerene bottle will probably be found by a collector in a couple hundred years in about the same shape that you found it.

  • @robbyjessica84
    @robbyjessica84 4 года назад +119

    Thanks for sharing that. I remember being 12 years old with a friend, building a fire in a tin can stove on a dug out hole in the side of a hill that used to have railroad tracks over it in the past. And digging up old china plates, tea pots and bottles from the 30s, and found a beer bottle that was rusted and unopened...yah we opened it and drank a sip. Kids, surprisingly didnt die.

  • @megarusso
    @megarusso 4 года назад +48

    I have worked in some water treatment sites, that previously were victorian landfill sites. Spent many days picking around in the dirt in one particular site in South London, found some bottles from the late 1890's, the best one being an 'effiel tower lemonade' bottle from 1906. Its a great hobby but you need to watch your fingers on the glass. Keep up the good work.

  • @JoeMac1983
    @JoeMac1983 4 года назад +33

    I remember fishing in the first 3 miles where the AuSable River (hardly wider than a creek at that point) forms in northern Michigan when I was 13 or so. I was always barefoot and noticed my toes touching something distinctively man made in the sand. I dug out an old medicine bottle (no date) and got pretty excited about it. Took it home and showed it to my grandma and her face lit up. She was telling me how it was at least from the 1920's and she remembered those bottles from that decade. She then told me about what they did as kids to pass the time during the Great Depression where she and her family lived on an orchard (just a few miles from where I was fishing) and how lucky we are today and don't even realize it.

    • @pkeod
      @pkeod 4 года назад +4

      What did they do as kids to pass the time?

  • @DougShoeBushcraft
    @DougShoeBushcraft 4 года назад +44

    I love inexpensive hobbies because I grew up poor in the woods. Actually I would call this one a free hobby because everyone has a few simple digging tools already. Or if you sell the bottles, like you said, then you are getting paid to have fun. Gotta love it. Cool finds. Cool video. Thanks for posting!

  • @jackcarr177
    @jackcarr177 4 года назад +2

    Being a plumber in Cincinnati Ohio I have found 3 outhouse privies. Two in the basement of two separate buildings. One in a back yard. First I found while jackhammering of the concrete floor and my jackhammer almost got out of my hands and fall into one. I found numerous bones from animals, pottery, bottles, leather shoes, bone handle toothbrushes, old medicine bottles, even old syringes. They all dated back to around 1910 at the top of the pretty and they would go all the way back to the 1780s in the bottom of the privies. It's very cool to come across one and the old things that are in it.

  • @tommywright7196
    @tommywright7196 4 года назад +80

    I used to bottle hunt with mom when I was growing up after she passed away I donated part of them to the local historical society . Including one from a local drugstore with a two digit phone number

  • @spicychinchin6597
    @spicychinchin6597 4 года назад +580

    Oh! That bottle that looked cracked appears to be an old Ink bottle, I've got a couple bottles of Schaeffer skrip ink bottles that are almost identical, makes it easier to fill an inkwell.

    • @synthetasthete
      @synthetasthete 4 года назад +30

      That is indeed an ink bottle. I have quite a few for my fountain pens.

    • @craigmooring2091
      @craigmooring2091 4 года назад +84

      Right, it is an ink bottle (Schaeffer Scripto), and the inner division is there so that when the level gets low, you don't have to dip your fountain pen way down in which makes it hard to operate the lever to draw more ink in (without getting ink from the side of the bottle on your hands). Instead, with the cap screwed on, you tilt the bottle to fill the upper chamber. Then, with the top off, you fill your pen more easily with less risk of mess.

    • @spicychinchin6597
      @spicychinchin6597 4 года назад +17

      @@craigmooring2091 yep! It's actually a good design, I've found it useful when I do actually use my fountain pens.

    • @radvideo6569
      @radvideo6569 4 года назад +13

      Yep, Scripto ink bottle. I used that same ink (& bottle) in my high school "Mechanical Drawing" (drafting) class (late 70's). Of course, that seems so primitive now, since these days, and even decades back, simple computer programs can achieve the same (or better) results much more quickly and easily. Wow. Now I'm feeling old. 😐

    • @fabricechoquet3887
      @fabricechoquet3887 4 года назад +9

      I remember when i was kid in my french school in Québec, how i loved the beautifull blue "outre-mer " in those bottles compare to all dark blue ink in the other brands.

  • @talexander7217
    @talexander7217 4 года назад +36

    The small jar at around 9 minutes is an ink jar. You would tilt the jar before opening to fill the shelf with ink so you could fill your fountain pen and/or dip your pen tip in. They still make them like that.

  • @TonyPowers_Dirtbound
    @TonyPowers_Dirtbound 4 года назад +128

    I’m sure you’ve already figured it out by now but the pyrex bottle is for sure a baby bottle.
    Only reason I know is because my grandmother still has one of those sitting on the shelf next to my moms baby picture.
    Thank you for another great video sir

  • @JIMPARKERWORKS
    @JIMPARKERWORKS 4 года назад +162

    “Weird, strange bottle” is perhaps an ink jar with built in “well” to facilitate easy filling of fountain pens.

    • @ionraice
      @ionraice 4 года назад +16

      Jim Parker it is indeed an ink bottle. My grandfather told us the jar was tipped to fill the reservoir. The reservoir was supposed to be just the right depth to fill your quill and not guess the depth of your ink every time.

    • @diogenesegarden5152
      @diogenesegarden5152 4 года назад +4

      Good call, it would be nice if they still made them that way, it is a bit of a ball ache refilling my fountain pen as the level goes down in the bottle.

    • @JacobScharff
      @JacobScharff 4 года назад +5

      US Patent 1759866A (from the bottom of the jar):
      patents.google.com/patent/US1759866A/en

  • @tonystacey9333
    @tonystacey9333 4 года назад +210

    I was digging for a building footings and found a bottle that was from France and it was to treat gonorrhea. 1930's era

    • @96Logan
      @96Logan 4 года назад +9

      @Randy Bingham probably was made with cocaine or morphine :)

    • @johnbecht3158
      @johnbecht3158 4 года назад +13

      I need that how much?

  • @michaelingle8097
    @michaelingle8097 4 года назад +32

    Damn. Some of those bottles are freaking clean as hell to have been outside in the dirt for 50 to 70 years. Holy shit. Especially those bleach bottles.😧

  • @waltstilwell4933
    @waltstilwell4933 3 года назад +8

    I do e-commerce shipping for goodwill, and people love vintage items. I'm constantly amazed what sells for good money.

  • @daisygoon
    @daisygoon 4 года назад +50

    I was raised in the heart of Ontario farmland in the early 80's, and I remember at least four old "Farm field dumps" that I used to explore, Breaks my heart to think of all the old Hutchinson Coke bottles and old green and blue and brown bottles that fell prey to my old single shot 22.

    • @oxyrisin
      @oxyrisin 4 года назад +3

      But if they were all still around they wouldn’t be worth much. That’s the catch.

  • @kenr1067
    @kenr1067 4 года назад +45

    When I was a kid my mom took us "treasure hunting" allot. Always a fun day. We used to look for old foundations. Bottles, spoons, old metal toys. You never know what you will find.

  • @spicychinchin6597
    @spicychinchin6597 4 года назад +228

    Me and a buddy of mine do this every summer since high school, and we got into hunting for stuff in River banks as well. I remember the first time we went out we found some diamond coke bottles, atomic glass ash trays, and tons of Roman bleach bottles. We were shocked to make like 60 bucks. It's a fun hobby, and a good way to spend time outdoors. Cool to see you spreading some word about this cool past time!

  • @lordvengerx
    @lordvengerx 4 года назад +14

    Sapphire blue glass bottles are amazing. I wish we still did that. The sapphire medicine bottles are so awesome especially when your collection starts to grow

  • @ryanblake4790
    @ryanblake4790 4 года назад +34

    I have this forest preserve behind my house. Way out in the bush is a hidden alcohol still with an insanely old car with a tree growing through the engine bay. Super cool not many people know its there im guessing and theres even some bullet holes in the stills. One day found this super cool giant glass flask shaped bottle. The whole thing was engraved and said on the bottle "alcohol is prohibited. Not for sale. This is inteded for medical use" and all sorts of other cool things. Needless to say i got home ran to the bathroom, come back and my mother had thrown it in the trash and it smashed. So sad, ive seen lots of bottles but this was like a gem to me, cant believe she did that

  • @whittlesticks7192
    @whittlesticks7192 4 года назад +2

    David, The jar shown at around 9:02 is an ink bottle for fountain pens. The upper divider is to tip the jar, fill the divided part and dip a plain dip pen or quill in the ink. These were common through the mid 1960's, but more common 1950's and earlier. I still have a few (with ink) I bought new, back in the day. You could write an average sentence with each dip, then dip again.
    Happy hunting, Carl

  • @mmercier0921
    @mmercier0921 4 года назад +44

    Sometimes we dig dumps from the 50's on the surface... some of those sites go back a century or more when you dig down. We had one that was 70's surface scatter, got down to 1857, so far. We mostly look for colonial sites and old latrine pits in the area. It is an enjoyable hobby.
    Last fall when exploring a site I found a bunch of edible puff ball mushrooms, some as big as softballs. Only one an inclusion. Be going back there next August.

  • @ButAVapor
    @ButAVapor 4 года назад +9

    The baby bottle gave me chills. I love that! Its cool to wonder what the life of vintage objects were like.

  • @alexanderweaver4838
    @alexanderweaver4838 4 года назад +11

    Hi Dave, it's 2:45 a.m and couldn't sleep...your video link popped up on my screen. I use a fountain pen to write and have been since I was stationed in England. I met up with a calligrapher and her skills with the pen piqued my interest in the art. This was back in the mid-sixties and one of her bottles of ink had the ink well built into the bottle, I believe in was by Scripto or Parker; the latter being my choice of ink. I do calligraphy as a hobby but have made money on the side doing wedding invitations and I did many certificates in the military, e.g. NCO Leadership school, academy, etc. and I collect fountain pens and old bottles of ink. I use to take my kids out into the desert near Gila Bend, AZ, to collect old bottles for an elderly man's collection. He would hang them on his fence around his home. Several of them were actually "collectibles" such as sarsparilla (sp?) bottles and he would pay my kids more for them. This was one way I introduced work ethics to my kids. This hobby confirms the old adage, "One man's trash is another man's treasure."

  • @TheGeekyChef1190
    @TheGeekyChef1190 4 года назад +588

    Cheapest hobby on earth is watching Dave Canterbury on RUclips. And just as fun.

    • @lazertadpole4977
      @lazertadpole4977 4 года назад +35

      If you get your internet for free

    • @justa.american8303
      @justa.american8303 4 года назад +8

      Yep, and you don't get your hands and shoes muddy...What a bargain!

    • @josephmountford2292
      @josephmountford2292 4 года назад +3

      Cheapest?

    • @330FoeSho
      @330FoeSho 4 года назад +13

      @@lazertadpole4977 And your phone and/or computer.

    • @JoeZUGOOLA
      @JoeZUGOOLA 4 года назад +2

      I pay £11 a month for this

  • @katzkatcher
    @katzkatcher 4 года назад +2

    Another place to find really old bottles are in old out house pits .Back in the mid 70's one of my summer jobs at grandparents 's farm was to dig a new out hose pit.I got 2-3feet down & started finding old bottles that were cork stopper types.

  • @derekcoe9633
    @derekcoe9633 4 года назад +14

    Been bottle digging for almost three years now, but due to the lockdown here in the UK not been for nearly five weeks, can’t wait to get back out there... thanks for the video, always nice to see what our brothers are up to over the pond 👍

  • @jamesellsworth9673
    @jamesellsworth9673 4 года назад +4

    As a multi-generational farm family, we had our own 'dump' in an accessible but out of the way spot. My father had it cleaned up and taken to the town facilities. You give a glimpse of how long things stay 'in the woods.'

  • @aaronsemasko9281
    @aaronsemasko9281 4 года назад +2

    You can get a rough idea of the date on some bottles based on the presence of the embossed “dots” on the bottoms. They’re used as a grip so they don’t fall off the belt on assembly lines.

  • @aussie.bushcraftsurvival9606
    @aussie.bushcraftsurvival9606 4 года назад +76

    Yea bottles and tins are fun to collect . A word of caution , I learned from an Elder , who nearly died himself and some lads he knew did die from this mistake . They found a old tin in the bush , they opened it and it had a white powder in it . They did not know what it was and took it too the old boy I met at the markets .
    They handed him the tin , and said" what's this old man??? " well it turned out to be syanide powder probably used for baiting foxes .
    Well just sniffing the tin , put the old man in hospital , he had an out of body Experence , floating around the room out of his body .
    The two boys that Baught him the tin , died in hospital !!! They must have touched the powder !
    Well the moral of the story , be careful going through old rubbish etc old tins and bottles may have been discarded for a reason , being poison bottles etc .
    The old boy survived ok , and lived to give me the warning , I'm sharing with you all .
    I love old bottles and tins but , it pays to be cautious ! :) even a sniff of a bottle , can put you in hospital or worse .
    Words from a wise old trapper , hunter from down under :)

    • @redflint7651
      @redflint7651 4 года назад +1

      Aussie.Bushcraft &Survival lol

    • @ChrisfromGeorgia
      @ChrisfromGeorgia 4 года назад +8

      Good advice! Nowadays it's also wise to wear puncture-resistant gloves. Getting poked by a syringe makes a bad day bottle hunting.

    • @MrShnazer
      @MrShnazer 4 года назад +5

      You should wear a hazmat suit ever time you go outdoors.

    • @bethechangeme2233
      @bethechangeme2233 4 года назад +1

      My dad often warned me about this: "If ever you see an old tin box wedged in an old stone wall leave it there son". It turns out that back when poisoning was legal here in Ireland it was common place for hunters to leave their little can of poison wedged in a stone wall somewhere, away from the house and the kids I suppose, and that many a such can was forgotten about and probably remains there to this day. A curious smell or taste or even a touch might be enough to kill a person, especially a curious child. Its good to know these things so they can be avoided and such hobbies enjoyed safely. I'm not trying to put people off, especially young people, because I've had many an enjoyable day metal collecting and its a shame more young people are not interested in such hobbies rather then playing video games, its good however for them to know the few pitfalls so they can continue these wonderful hobbies safely. God bless.

  • @rippersix293
    @rippersix293 4 года назад +1

    Back in 1999 I was working a new build job site in an old Detroit neighborhood and we discovered a dump that was from 1880-1920. The site was shut down for 90 days and a dig was conducted by the Detroit Historical Society with volunteers from Wayne State University. There were so many bottles of various types that we all got to take as many as we wanted for ourselves. I was hooked on bottle hunting after that, but I’ve never found anything like what we found that summer! I ended up with 25-30 1880-1900 patent medicine bottles, milk glass containers of all types, cobalt blue lattice style poison bottles, beer and soda push-in style blob top bottles and very ornate ceramic shaving soap and ladies face cream containers.

  • @wvgrizzly9323
    @wvgrizzly9323 4 года назад +151

    Fine places for copperheads as well. Speaking from experience.

    • @scrappyhustler7467
      @scrappyhustler7467 4 года назад +21

      Cant live ur life fearing the devil my friend!

    • @Mandalore06
      @Mandalore06 4 года назад +37

      @@scrappyhustler7467 Right, but it doesn't hurt to be mindful of where you stick your hands.

    • @jasonnantze438
      @jasonnantze438 4 года назад +1

      No doubt my friend...just the idea of it makes me start to vomit a little

    • @tonyhemingway7980
      @tonyhemingway7980 4 года назад +13

      @@Mandalore06
      Rake it first, with the potato digger. The handle should be long enough to keep a safe distance.

  • @ErnestAbell
    @ErnestAbell 4 года назад +2

    The small bottle that has the angled piece is an Fountain Pen ink bottle. The angled piece is to help you fill a pen without sticking the nib into the ink to far and making a mess on the pen body.

  • @zip2692
    @zip2692 4 года назад +5

    I live in Utah where their are a lot of old mines/ ghost towns, I like to search out these places. What surprises me is how often I find silver spoons. Kind of makes me wonder about the whole "being born with a silver spoon" saying.

  • @saldevere9066
    @saldevere9066 4 года назад +13

    The small jar with the inner lip is an ink bottle for fountain pens.

  • @stephenzevetchin
    @stephenzevetchin 4 года назад +5

    This is why the channel is one of my faves. A different flavor video and a surprise woods hobby.

  • @josephmountford2292
    @josephmountford2292 4 года назад

    Good to have affordable options. It doesn’t have to be expensive to be rewarding.

  • @jamescampbell2637
    @jamescampbell2637 4 года назад +5

    The one with the glass divider is for ink. You shake some ink up into the top compartment, then you don't have to dip the pay way down deep into the bottle when the ink runs low.

  • @imnamedaj3192
    @imnamedaj3192 4 года назад +1

    I found myself an Orange Crush Glass soda bottle near my child hood home next to a creek that was made in the next door town of Iron Mountain MI, dated July 20 1920.
    Found it after the house was torn down. Still got it on my shelf to remember that place.
    Thanks for sharing this! Fun hobby and a great reason to get out into nature.
    Take care,
    AJ

  • @nathanielcohen9890
    @nathanielcohen9890 4 года назад +2

    in philippi, wv @ old myers clinic in the library there is a hidden door behind the library shelves (north wall). this clinic was constructed in the early 1900's. my clinical professor and myself opened that door and entered into a long tunnel about 30' wide and ran about 300 ft back into the mountain. the tunnel was filled with medical equipment from 1800's thru 1960's. several medical items were from the civil war (philippi is the sight of first battle of the civil war on broaddus hill). lab equipment, jars, even a doctor's medical bag still had glass vials of medicine in them, with all their tools needed to practice medicine. we came across 2 mummified bodies that shortly thereafter disappeared. a doctor was experimenting with new embalming techniques in late 1800's, and now they are forgotten to history. we told the hospital/clinic board about the tunnel find. they had no idea the tunnel existed, which was constructed by a dr myers in mid-1700's. there was also hundreds of body parts floating in jars of formalde. in the early days of the myers clinic, it was as famous as the mayo clinic of today and was a major institution of medicinal education. today they have plans to make a museum of the artifacts we found. one particular find was an x-ray machine of 1930's vintage with a diode bigger than a football. talk about lighting you up. that's the closest i have been to becoming an indiana jones......which ultimately led me to the sw desert where i discovered ancient indian ruins, arrow heads, war axes, pottery, and dinosaur bones. now that i am retired from medicine and 70 yrs old, i ought to take the hobby up again

  • @earleriser
    @earleriser 4 года назад +2

    The small jar with the internal chamber is an ink bottle. It was used while you were filling an old refilleable fountain pen.

  • @johnstewart8573
    @johnstewart8573 4 года назад +1

    The small bottle at 12:49 is an ink bottle. The little space near the top is where you dip the nib of pen when you are writing. Keeps you from sticking the point too deep and being messy. When that little well needs more ink you just tip the bottle a little and refill the small well.

  • @thibs8839
    @thibs8839 4 года назад +4

    Wow! Its incredible that these are still intact after so many years! Its amazing what you can find out there. Thanks for sharing!

  • @fishman1116
    @fishman1116 4 года назад +139

    Let’s start manufacturing all your gear in the US! All the Titanium and stainless steel gear, canvas and dynema/cuban fiber!

    • @garageman_
      @garageman_ 4 года назад +4

      bottle

    • @Barskor1
      @Barskor1 4 года назад +7

      So make Cuba part of the USA? Sure I think we should just plant hemp though.

    • @RyuzakiReaper
      @RyuzakiReaper 4 года назад +4

      @@Barskor1 No thanks. Cuba and hemp can stay out.

    • @ronaldparis9519
      @ronaldparis9519 4 года назад +2

      Sounds good but I believe there is no domestic supply for titanium.

    • @Musicmaddnes
      @Musicmaddnes 4 года назад +17

      @@RyuzakiReaper hemp has been legal for a while and is a very profitable crop

  • @aaahbeeeh3374
    @aaahbeeeh3374 4 года назад +2

    :) good one, dave. we were metal detectoring near a lake, some weeks ago. found much trash in the hill, with it some glas bottles. i thought: "that one looks good, its old, must be worth some". so, it was from almost 100 years old, being sold at around 10euros. finding some old bottles in trashy places might be more regarding than finding coins with a 250euros metal detector, and u also clean the woods with that action!

  • @slipit9
    @slipit9 4 года назад +9

    This was awesome. Thank you for sharing. Get out and walk with multiple purposes is exactly what I was trying to find. I really appreciate it.

  • @stonehill27
    @stonehill27 4 года назад +3

    Remember as child searching for bottles/items in old trash piles. Still have two of them, 45 years later.

  • @vbryant5757
    @vbryant5757 4 года назад +3

    Awesome video! I found one of those little bottles with the lip on the inside, it does look cracked at first glance, but it's actually the 'lip' inside. Everyone commenting says it's an ink well bottle. TOO COOL! Thanks again for this awesome video!

  • @TheBradinator214
    @TheBradinator214 4 года назад +4

    I've been doing this for years since I accidentally stumbled on some bottles in a local creek. I love it and I'm glad you made this video!

  • @carolynkid216
    @carolynkid216 4 года назад +8

    I too love to treasure hunt when in the woods. Thanks so much. You found some neat stuff.

  • @richardsmith7783
    @richardsmith7783 3 года назад +2

    That last brown bottle was an ammonia. The little clear bottle that looked like baby food, was a liquid medicine bottle it came with a dropper,the side was to turn the bottle over to fill and that is how you measure what to take and that is what you sucked up in the dropper

  • @juanconeo
    @juanconeo 4 года назад +1

    Another hobby you can derive from the bottles you decide not to keep is glass knapping to make arrow heads (which can also be an useful survival skill 😉👍)

  • @denniscleveland669
    @denniscleveland669 2 года назад +1

    When I went deer hunting in upstate New York, I found several trash sites. In one, I found a pewter topped shaker with three faces on it. I also found many cork topped bottles, where the seam stopped at the shoulders. I also found canning jars with pewter or tin/zinc rings and some glass lids.

  • @philthycat1408
    @philthycat1408 4 года назад +1

    I've dug an old farm tip in the woods for about 7yr. Earliest bottles are 1930 but the pottery bottles slight deeper go way back. My favourites are the old poison bottles, which can be really small and need careful digging and a good eye. I do all my digging with a fork that you eat with and I can't imagine how many tons I've dug through. Honestly I can't think of anything else that brings me peace and happiness as much as this does. And all for nothing or at most the price of a fork.

  • @DollyTheLlama
    @DollyTheLlama 4 года назад +3

    Awesome video! This is one of my favorite hobbies. And that potato rake is one of my favorite tools!
    Instead of dumps, and depending on where I'm hiking, sometimes I like to look for old foundation blocks or signs of where a house used to be, and then finding their trash pile. Sometimes it's just a barely noticeable mound with no apparent trash on the surface. Once you start raking back those leaves though, you never know what you'll find. Depression era blue bottles, porcelain doll pieces, broken kitchenware, and old garden implements and flower pots are some of my favorite finds.

  • @davemiller251
    @davemiller251 4 года назад +70

    The little 'jar' with the glass insert - probably Scripto ink. The partition allowed the filling of a fountain pen,

    • @pedalpusher101
      @pedalpusher101 4 года назад +2

      That's what it was. I used them as a kid.

    • @kokopelau6954
      @kokopelau6954 4 года назад +1

      Looks like the ones I used when I was a kid in the 50's

    • @pkeod
      @pkeod 4 года назад +4

      50's Skrip Inkwell w/ Reservoir "Clear Fill Pocket" Pat 1759866
      Easily $10-20

    • @BillHartCooks.
      @BillHartCooks. 4 года назад

      Yup!

  • @TheHyena-ru8bz
    @TheHyena-ru8bz 4 года назад +2

    My grandpa used to do this with my dad at the dumps back in the 60s. I used to see all these cool old colorful bottles he had on the window seal.

  • @Berzerk29
    @Berzerk29 4 года назад +2

    My wife, my daughter, and I were just bottle hunting today in my back woods. A lot of fun. Found a vintage amber Clorox glass bottle.

  • @zachpowell5048
    @zachpowell5048 4 года назад +1

    I found a bottle exactly like that in my backyard. Upon further research I believe it was for some sort of baby medicine. With the lid on you would tilt the bottle to fill up that little lip inside and then you could pull the medicine up into a dropper.

  • @renaissancemarinetv3536
    @renaissancemarinetv3536 4 года назад +3

    my daddy was a bottle and insulator collector. he would find old dumps and even the sites of old privys on homesteads. there would be the glass gold mine.

  • @caryroth73
    @caryroth73 4 года назад +1

    I took my daughter out and we did this a couple of weeks ago. We had a blast and found some neat bottles, nothing really old just interesting. Thank you for the video and validating that I'm not crazy.

  • @jasonlevesque2281
    @jasonlevesque2281 4 года назад +1

    The tiny jar with the extra glass webbing inside could possibly a collector's item, if that webbing is a manufacturing mistake. Coke, (I know that's not a coke bottle), use to have what's called a "Bird cage bottle". It was a manufacturing flaw in their old glass 1 liter bottles. The bottle would have a string a glass from one side to the other that resembled a pirch. Those were worth about $40 20 years ago.

  • @jeremyrock9305
    @jeremyrock9305 4 года назад +16

    Did this as kids in the 80’s in pa ! Still know guys go out all the time

  • @chrbla4607
    @chrbla4607 4 года назад +1

    I haven’t been an avid bottle collector but I do have a small collection I’ve found around an old homestead on our property. I have a few of the blue Ball mason jars I found with the lids, also have some really cool Pet milk bottles from the 1920s.

  • @SUFFICIENCYtoLIBERTY
    @SUFFICIENCYtoLIBERTY 4 года назад +1

    Cool video. My grandfather used to hunt for bottles but at that time was particular about only getting bottles that were made with stoppers. Probably what you had to have back then for things to be vintage.

  • @thomasgross8289
    @thomasgross8289 4 года назад +9

    Man there was a dump like this behind my house in the woods when I was a kid i mean like 10 acres easily. My father bought the house from the man who built it in 1974 and that man was 109 at that time. When i was 10 my parents would send me over to see if they needed anything every couple of days. He was always outside in the yard or in his shop working. He told me he built the house we lived in when he was 20...in 7 months it would be 100 years old. His wife passed a couple months from then and him about a month later. Im 49 now so bittles out there would be 130+ years old now!

  • @nickb4753
    @nickb4753 2 года назад +1

    Thank you for keeping it real for the common man Dave. Respect.

  • @lovethroughblood4174
    @lovethroughblood4174 4 года назад +11

    This video was alot of fun it really felt like i was hanging out with mr Canterbury on his downtime hope you make more vids like this

  • @jeepinjohnny2898
    @jeepinjohnny2898 3 года назад +2

    Hey - that little one with side well is an ink bottle. We used them in 1940s.

  • @ealmorders
    @ealmorders 4 года назад +1

    The little bottle with the extra well/partition inside is an old ink bottle use for filling fountain pens, before ball point pens were popular. I remember using one on my mom and dads desk when I was a kid in the 50's

  • @Chevrolet1994
    @Chevrolet1994 4 года назад +2

    Thank you dave for videos,helps pass the time. Always great to learn new thing.

  • @mwurslin7152
    @mwurslin7152 4 года назад +2

    Wow... Never would have thought about looking for bottles... An interesting hobby to consider... Thanks Dave...

  • @joemcpherson3523
    @joemcpherson3523 3 года назад +2

    The small bottle with the lip inside is a desk ink bottle you fill your pen in the smallbowl..

  • @madmaxprepping8036
    @madmaxprepping8036 4 года назад +2

    Just got your book bushcraft 101. Love the knowledge you pass on to others.

  • @manman478
    @manman478 4 года назад +3

    Hey Dave, the bottle you found at 9:05 is a Sheaffer Skrip ink bottle. The little chamber at the top made it easier to fill your fountain pen when the bottle was running low. Probably from from the '40s or '50s Thanks for the video, and nice finds!

  • @dragonwaterforge
    @dragonwaterforge 4 года назад +24

    That so cool like being a kid again

  • @nordicwelshman1897
    @nordicwelshman1897 4 года назад +2

    Hey David, I just wanted to thank you for sharing your knowledge. Videos like yours have inspired me to start my own channel and I posted my first video yesterday. You rock!

  • @benfrankog6111
    @benfrankog6111 4 года назад +2

    Awesome Dave, I love finding old bottles as well.

  • @trynsurviven2440
    @trynsurviven2440 4 года назад +3

    You found some really cool bottles. Thanks for sharing.

  • @rangeoflight
    @rangeoflight 4 года назад +4

    Thanks for another great video. Im gonna get out and make another one myself this weekend. I look forward to seeing yours and learning new stuff.

  • @firinglinechannel
    @firinglinechannel 4 года назад +5

    Really cool! I have a buddy that found an old bottle in San Antonio in the woods and found out it was a local company and was worth $50-$75. Crazy the things you can find

  • @joem2554
    @joem2554 4 года назад +3

    Great video!! I love old dumps. I spent hours in them digging bottles.

  • @leotaylor262
    @leotaylor262 4 года назад +30

    Im actually really interested in this now . I think I might start :-)

  • @ronnieahman6958
    @ronnieahman6958 4 года назад +4

    Really interesting video. Good finds you got there. An other good thing with collecting bottles is to get the "trash" out of the woods. Thanks for sharing.

  • @user-gh8wt2zi2n
    @user-gh8wt2zi2n 4 года назад +1

    A similar hobby you can include as the cheapest, maybe even cheaper, is beachcombing. You can find some really great stuff, you'd be surprised. Plus, the shore is the easiest place to find a meal in nature. You can comb all day and then have a seafood dinner after.

  • @Flukeallday
    @Flukeallday 4 года назад

    Nice change of pace. Much appreciated.

  • @jimbobtheimpaler8403
    @jimbobtheimpaler8403 4 года назад +2

    Learned something new and useful today. Thank you for the upload Mr.Canterbury..

  • @verdantpulse5185
    @verdantpulse5185 4 года назад +1

    The bottle with the extra web of glass partitioning the interior is for fountain pen ink. Tip the closed bottle to capture some ink in the upper pool with the lid closed. Then open the jar and there is a pool of ink in easy reach to limit the chance of inky fingertips, when reloading the pen.