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Old 7 April 2025, 12:02 PM   #1
TheVTCGuy
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Anyone collect antique bottles?

A lot of you know I collect and restore antique clocks, but long before then, I started an antique bottle collection. It actually began when I was a teenager and avid scuba diver, working the summers for a professional recovery company on the Great Lakes. Finding an old bottle that had been in the water 100 or years or more was one of the most fun parts of that job, and find we did! That was back in the year 19-%$##…. I am a member of a local club, we meet every month and have annual show where people can buy/sell/trade. It benefits the local VFW and other charitable organizations. Attached are a couple pictures, I don’t have a specific type I like, although medicines I find very interesting from the turn of the century. The one picture is my pride and joy, I have two Roman-Era bottles. The one on the left is from (approximately) 100 AD and the other from 300 AD. Maybe not a lot of people find these interesting but I am fascinated by the history, 2,000 years ago some Roman was holding that bottle, and now I have it in a display case. If only they could talk.

Does anyone else collect bottles?
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