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[Ryan.]

that only resulted in me getting a real small stub

 

[Junkdrawer]

that only resulted in me getting a real small stub

 

Its a personal problem and you want to make a big thing out of it

[Ryan.]

[Junkdrawer]

[Shark]

that only resulted in me getting a real small stub

 

Its a personal problem and you want to make a big thing out of it

 

I think you're the one hoping to make a big thing out of it.

[comicwiz]

totally off topic, but i have just discovered that there is a market for empty liquor bottles. this boggles my mind. my wife was going to throw something out that she had emptied that apparently sells for $20-$25. the booze itself was like $35 when we bought it. it is some sort of limited edition bottle.

 

As the owner of a distillery, I am always watching for antique whisky bottles.

 

this isn't an antique! This was bought at the liquor store last year! i have two bottles of absolute brooklyn limited edition (they still have vodka in them though), apparently, when empty, those sell for good money. people turn stuff into lamps and stuff i guess. i have no idea. my wife just polished off some really good scotch i bought her..small batch, $100 a bottle (Aberlour a’bunadh), and apparently the empties sell for like $10. it is a pretty bottle, sure.

 

I know, shipping this will be a PITA, but I'll survive

 

Check out the prices for empty Crystal Head Vodka bottles. I used to work at a casino that carried this stuff and I would always check out the trash cans filled with empty liquor bottles to see if any were thrown out, but never found any.

 

One of my hobbies is metal detecting and I try to get out as much as I can between spring and fall, before the white stuff starts flying anyway. Back in May, I got a solid signal for what sounded like a metal signature of "copper/brass." It was in the forest, and the thought of an old token or coin began running through my mind. After a bit of digging, I began to see a bottle. My first impression when I saw it was it was one of those modern plastic bottles they use to stock mini-bars at hotels, so I tucked into one of the pouches I use to collect trash not realizing that the bottle was my target. When I noticed there was nothing else in the hole I had dug, I went back to look at the bottle and noticed the top on it was what set my detector off.

 

It turned out to be a circa 1910 E W Hoyt perfume bottle. It has raised letters on the glass that read: E.W.Hoyt & Co. Perfumers Lowell Mass. USA. The incredible thing is that it has it's original two-piece cap - brass topper, with cork bottom. The top has a hollow pin that pokes through a hole drilled through the center of the cork, and I'm assuming at one time when this contained perfume, that pin was used to collect fluid and dab it. When I began researching it, I noticed almost none of the examples I found online had its original cap - usually they are sold with replacement cork cap or with no cap at all. I can't remember if I had posted it in one of the forums I frequent where finds are shared with community members, but I almost immediately recieved several offers by email. I couldn't believe people paid this kind of money for such items, but apparently there are collectors for it.

[ADAMANTIUM]

I too tried the metal detecting game I found a 1942 condom rubber still in it's metal tin that they used to come in during that era.... echemm... I had to give up metal detecting.... that was just too much... I was with my cousin at White Rock Lake when we found it, it was still sealed and all and wasn't used (thank you Jesus) but still

[STORMSHADOW_80]

totally off topic, but i have just discovered that there is a market for empty liquor bottles. this boggles my mind. my wife was going to throw something out that she had emptied that apparently sells for $20-$25. the booze itself was like $35 when we bought it. it is some sort of limited edition bottle.

 

As the owner of a distillery, I am always watching for antique whisky bottles.

 

this isn't an antique! This was bought at the liquor store last year! i have two bottles of absolute brooklyn limited edition (they still have vodka in them though), apparently, when empty, those sell for good money. people turn stuff into lamps and stuff i guess. i have no idea. my wife just polished off some really good scotch i bought her..small batch, $100 a bottle (Aberlour a’bunadh), and apparently the empties sell for like $10. it is a pretty bottle, sure.

 

I know, shipping this will be a PITA, but I'll survive

 

Check out the prices for empty Crystal Head Vodka bottles. I used to work at a casino that carried this stuff and I would always check out the trash cans filled with empty liquor bottles to see if any were thrown out, but never found any.

Oh wow! Thanks for the info. I have the big bottle I kept to refill with tequila.

[the blob]

my guess is having the top intact is a big deal. these old timey bottles are out there.. i have found a couple randomly, once just wandering through an area they were ripping up to put in condos and once in a wall when i was working in construction in an old building, but getting the cap is another story

[the blob]

I too tried the metal detecting game I found a 1942 condom rubber still in it's metal tin that they used to come in during that era.... echemm... I had to give up metal detecting.... that was just too much... I was with my cousin at White Rock Lake when we found it, it was still sealed and all and wasn't used (thank you Jesus) but still

 

probably a valuable collector's item

 

i did it when i was a kid, but the cheap detector my father bought picked up everying, didn't tell you what type, so it was bottle tops and rusty cans all day.

[Doktor]

totally off topic, but i have just discovered that there is a market for empty liquor bottles. this boggles my mind. my wife was going to throw something out that she had emptied that apparently sells for $20-$25. the booze itself was like $35 when we bought it. it is some sort of limited edition bottle.

 

As the owner of a distillery, I am always watching for antique whisky bottles.

 

this isn't an antique! This was bought at the liquor store last year! i have two bottles of absolute brooklyn limited edition (they still have vodka in them though), apparently, when empty, those sell for good money. people turn stuff into lamps and stuff i guess. i have no idea. my wife just polished off some really good scotch i bought her..small batch, $100 a bottle (Aberlour abunadh), and apparently the empties sell for like $10. it is a pretty bottle, sure.

 

I know, shipping this will be a PITA, but I'll survive

 

Check out the prices for empty Crystal Head Vodka bottles. I used to work at a casino that carried this stuff and I would always check out the trash cans filled with empty liquor bottles to see if any were thrown out, but never found any.

Oh wow! Thanks for the info. I have the big bottle I kept to refill with tequila.

 

Yeah. I have one of those filled with water & red high-lighter fluid in my basement so that it glows red/pink with a black light.

[comicwiz]

I too tried the metal detecting game I found a 1942 condom rubber still in it's metal tin that they used to come in during that era.... echemm... I had to give up metal detecting.... that was just too much... I was with my cousin at White Rock Lake when we found it, it was still sealed and all and wasn't used (thank you Jesus) but still

 

probably a valuable collector's item

 

i did it when i was a kid, but the cheap detector my father bought picked up everying, didn't tell you what type, so it was bottle tops and rusty cans all day.

 

I've found a few of those as well - they are usually wafer thin tin containers, sqauarish with rounded corners and are made of metals that corrode when recovered from a long dirtnap. I have quite a bit invested in my machines, and I can confirm that it's really no different from your experience for hardcore relic finders. The gold and silver rush detecorists leave plentiful of good stuff behind if you learn the language of your machine. An old toasty silver coin with a slight curl on the edge can sound a lot like a bottlecap, but if you discriminate out bottle caps, you miss out on a potentially historic find. You really have to dig everything, and while the odds aren't always in your favour that it's something worth keeping, that 1 time out of 100 almost always makes it worth the effort. It is a very addictive hobby once you realize a little perseverance can go a long way.

[batman_fan]

totally off topic, but i have just discovered that there is a market for empty liquor bottles. this boggles my mind. my wife was going to throw something out that she had emptied that apparently sells for $20-$25. the booze itself was like $35 when we bought it. it is some sort of limited edition bottle.

 

As the owner of a distillery, I am always watching for antique whisky bottles.

 

this isn't an antique! This was bought at the liquor store last year! i have two bottles of absolute brooklyn limited edition (they still have vodka in them though), apparently, when empty, those sell for good money. people turn stuff into lamps and stuff i guess. i have no idea. my wife just polished off some really good scotch i bought her..small batch, $100 a bottle (Aberlour a’bunadh), and apparently the empties sell for like $10. it is a pretty bottle, sure.

 

I know, shipping this will be a PITA, but I'll survive

 

Check out the prices for empty Crystal Head Vodka bottles. I used to work at a casino that carried this stuff and I would always check out the trash cans filled with empty liquor bottles to see if any were thrown out, but never found any.

 

One of my hobbies is metal detecting and I try to get out as much as I can between spring and fall, before the white stuff starts flying anyway. Back in May, I got a solid signal for what sounded like a metal signature of "copper/brass." It was in the forest, and the thought of an old token or coin began running through my mind. After a bit of digging, I began to see a bottle. My first impression when I saw it was it was one of those modern plastic bottles they use to stock mini-bars at hotels, so I tucked into one of the pouches I use to collect trash not realizing that the bottle was my target. When I noticed there was nothing else in the hole I had dug, I went back to look at the bottle and noticed the top on it was what set my detector off.

 

It turned out to be a circa 1910 E W Hoyt perfume bottle. It has raised letters on the glass that read: E.W.Hoyt & Co. Perfumers Lowell Mass. USA. The incredible thing is that it has it's original two-piece cap - brass topper, with cork bottom. The top has a hollow pin that pokes through a hole drilled through the center of the cork, and I'm assuming at one time when this contained perfume, that pin was used to collect fluid and dab it. When I began researching it, I noticed almost none of the examples I found online had its original cap - usually they are sold with replacement cork cap or with no cap at all. I can't remember if I had posted it in one of the forums I frequent where finds are shared with community members, but I almost immediately recieved several offers by email. I couldn't believe people paid this kind of money for such items, but apparently there are collectors for it.

 

That is pretty fricken cool !

[revat]

totally off topic, but i have just discovered that there is a market for empty liquor bottles. this boggles my mind. my wife was going to throw something out that she had emptied that apparently sells for $20-$25. the booze itself was like $35 when we bought it. it is some sort of limited edition bottle.

 

As the owner of a distillery, I am always watching for antique whisky bottles.

 

this isn't an antique! This was bought at the liquor store last year! i have two bottles of absolute brooklyn limited edition (they still have vodka in them though), apparently, when empty, those sell for good money. people turn stuff into lamps and stuff i guess. i have no idea. my wife just polished off some really good scotch i bought her..small batch, $100 a bottle (Aberlour abunadh), and apparently the empties sell for like $10. it is a pretty bottle, sure.

 

I know, shipping this will be a PITA, but I'll survive

 

Check out the prices for empty Crystal Head Vodka bottles. I used to work at a casino that carried this stuff and I would always check out the trash cans filled with empty liquor bottles to see if any were thrown out, but never found any.

 

One of my hobbies is metal detecting and I try to get out as much as I can between spring and fall, before the white stuff starts flying anyway. Back in May, I got a solid signal for what sounded like a metal signature of "copper/brass." It was in the forest, and the thought of an old token or coin began running through my mind. After a bit of digging, I began to see a bottle. My first impression when I saw it was it was one of those modern plastic bottles they use to stock mini-bars at hotels, so I tucked into one of the pouches I use to collect trash not realizing that the bottle was my target. When I noticed there was nothing else in the hole I had dug, I went back to look at the bottle and noticed the top on it was what set my detector off.

 

It turned out to be a circa 1910 E W Hoyt perfume bottle. It has raised letters on the glass that read: E.W.Hoyt & Co. Perfumers Lowell Mass. USA. The incredible thing is that it has it's original two-piece cap - brass topper, with cork bottom. The top has a hollow pin that pokes through a hole drilled through the center of the cork, and I'm assuming at one time when this contained perfume, that pin was used to collect fluid and dab it. When I began researching it, I noticed almost none of the examples I found online had its original cap - usually they are sold with replacement cork cap or with no cap at all. I can't remember if I had posted it in one of the forums I frequent where finds are shared with community members, but I almost immediately recieved several offers by email. I couldn't believe people paid this kind of money for such items, but apparently there are collectors for it.

 

That is pretty fricken cool !

 

I used to do the metal detecting thing. Keep EVERYTHING until you get the chance to look through it all carefully. Its gotta be easier now I suppose with smartphones and internet access, but still. The funnest part is finding the 1 or 2 treasures in 300 pieces of junk. Like going through comic longboxes at a garage sale.

[batman_fan]

totally off topic, but i have just discovered that there is a market for empty liquor bottles. this boggles my mind. my wife was going to throw something out that she had emptied that apparently sells for $20-$25. the booze itself was like $35 when we bought it. it is some sort of limited edition bottle.

 

As the owner of a distillery, I am always watching for antique whisky bottles.

 

this isn't an antique! This was bought at the liquor store last year! i have two bottles of absolute brooklyn limited edition (they still have vodka in them though), apparently, when empty, those sell for good money. people turn stuff into lamps and stuff i guess. i have no idea. my wife just polished off some really good scotch i bought her..small batch, $100 a bottle (Aberlour abunadh), and apparently the empties sell for like $10. it is a pretty bottle, sure.

 

I know, shipping this will be a PITA, but I'll survive

 

Check out the prices for empty Crystal Head Vodka bottles. I used to work at a casino that carried this stuff and I would always check out the trash cans filled with empty liquor bottles to see if any were thrown out, but never found any.

 

One of my hobbies is metal detecting and I try to get out as much as I can between spring and fall, before the white stuff starts flying anyway. Back in May, I got a solid signal for what sounded like a metal signature of "copper/brass." It was in the forest, and the thought of an old token or coin began running through my mind. After a bit of digging, I began to see a bottle. My first impression when I saw it was it was one of those modern plastic bottles they use to stock mini-bars at hotels, so I tucked into one of the pouches I use to collect trash not realizing that the bottle was my target. When I noticed there was nothing else in the hole I had dug, I went back to look at the bottle and noticed the top on it was what set my detector off.

 

It turned out to be a circa 1910 E W Hoyt perfume bottle. It has raised letters on the glass that read: E.W.Hoyt & Co. Perfumers Lowell Mass. USA. The incredible thing is that it has it's original two-piece cap - brass topper, with cork bottom. The top has a hollow pin that pokes through a hole drilled through the center of the cork, and I'm assuming at one time when this contained perfume, that pin was used to collect fluid and dab it. When I began researching it, I noticed almost none of the examples I found online had its original cap - usually they are sold with replacement cork cap or with no cap at all. I can't remember if I had posted it in one of the forums I frequent where finds are shared with community members, but I almost immediately recieved several offers by email. I couldn't believe people paid this kind of money for such items, but apparently there are collectors for it.

 

That is pretty fricken cool !

 

I used to do the metal detecting thing. Keep EVERYTHING until you get the chance to look through it all carefully. Its gotta be easier now I suppose with smartphones and internet access, but still. The funnest part is finding the 1 or 2 treasures in 300 pieces of junk. Like going through comic longboxes at a garage sale.

 

With the one I had as a kid, I found lots of bottle caps, pull tabs, and gum wrappers.

[byosti]

totally off topic, but i have just discovered that there is a market for empty liquor bottles. this boggles my mind. my wife was going to throw something out that she had emptied that apparently sells for $20-$25. the booze itself was like $35 when we bought it. it is some sort of limited edition bottle.

 

As the owner of a distillery, I am always watching for antique whisky bottles.

 

this isn't an antique! This was bought at the liquor store last year! i have two bottles of absolute brooklyn limited edition (they still have vodka in them though), apparently, when empty, those sell for good money. people turn stuff into lamps and stuff i guess. i have no idea. my wife just polished off some really good scotch i bought her..small batch, $100 a bottle (Aberlour a’bunadh), and apparently the empties sell for like $10. it is a pretty bottle, sure.

 

I know, shipping this will be a PITA, but I'll survive

 

Check out the prices for empty Crystal Head Vodka bottles. I used to work at a casino that carried this stuff and I would always check out the trash cans filled with empty liquor bottles to see if any were thrown out, but never found any.

 

 

I just sold 4 emtpy 750ml and 1 empty 50ml Crystal Head bottles on ebay for $100. Was expecting maybe $40, I think I even had the BIN for like 90 beforehand. People use them for lots of craft stuff on pinterest.

[the blob]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/3-Empty-CRYSTAL-skull-SKULL-HEAD-vodka-BOTTLES-750ml-Dan-Aykroyd-/272468851430?hash=item3f7068bae6:g:4UYAAOSw4GVYPsNw

 

You did well. This guy only got $44 for 3 750s.

 

With a 1.75 costing about $110 and selling for $40-$50 as an empty it makes the costs about as much as Belvedere.

[the blob]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Belvedere-Vodka-Bottle-empty-1-Liter-/162266048339?hash=item25c7cf6753:g:WoIAAOSwImRYEAbY

 

WTF? Someone spent $20 total for an empty bottle, common as dirt,not a special edition or anything like that, that would cost $40 with the actual vodka in it. I used to think the days of stupid money on ebay were over...in the early 2000s you could list all sorts of krap you found in the garbage and it would sell ... but I guess not entirely.

[comicwiz]

totally off topic, but i have just discovered that there is a market for empty liquor bottles. this boggles my mind. my wife was going to throw something out that she had emptied that apparently sells for $20-$25. the booze itself was like $35 when we bought it. it is some sort of limited edition bottle.

 

As the owner of a distillery, I am always watching for antique whisky bottles.

 

this isn't an antique! This was bought at the liquor store last year! i have two bottles of absolute brooklyn limited edition (they still have vodka in them though), apparently, when empty, those sell for good money. people turn stuff into lamps and stuff i guess. i have no idea. my wife just polished off some really good scotch i bought her..small batch, $100 a bottle (Aberlour abunadh), and apparently the empties sell for like $10. it is a pretty bottle, sure.

 

I know, shipping this will be a PITA, but I'll survive

 

Check out the prices for empty Crystal Head Vodka bottles. I used to work at a casino that carried this stuff and I would always check out the trash cans filled with empty liquor bottles to see if any were thrown out, but never found any.

 

One of my hobbies is metal detecting and I try to get out as much as I can between spring and fall, before the white stuff starts flying anyway. Back in May, I got a solid signal for what sounded like a metal signature of "copper/brass." It was in the forest, and the thought of an old token or coin began running through my mind. After a bit of digging, I began to see a bottle. My first impression when I saw it was it was one of those modern plastic bottles they use to stock mini-bars at hotels, so I tucked into one of the pouches I use to collect trash not realizing that the bottle was my target. When I noticed there was nothing else in the hole I had dug, I went back to look at the bottle and noticed the top on it was what set my detector off.

 

It turned out to be a circa 1910 E W Hoyt perfume bottle. It has raised letters on the glass that read: E.W.Hoyt & Co. Perfumers Lowell Mass. USA. The incredible thing is that it has it's original two-piece cap - brass topper, with cork bottom. The top has a hollow pin that pokes through a hole drilled through the center of the cork, and I'm assuming at one time when this contained perfume, that pin was used to collect fluid and dab it. When I began researching it, I noticed almost none of the examples I found online had its original cap - usually they are sold with replacement cork cap or with no cap at all. I can't remember if I had posted it in one of the forums I frequent where finds are shared with community members, but I almost immediately recieved several offers by email. I couldn't believe people paid this kind of money for such items, but apparently there are collectors for it.

 

That is pretty fricken cool !

 

I used to do the metal detecting thing. Keep EVERYTHING until you get the chance to look through it all carefully. Its gotta be easier now I suppose with smartphones and internet access, but still. The funnest part is finding the 1 or 2 treasures in 300 pieces of junk. Like going through comic longboxes at a garage sale.

 

It's funny you mention about keeping everything. You know a hobby gets out of hand when you buy a vehicle just for it. Anyhow, if you look at the back of my trunk, you'll see how quickly and easily the idea of keeping everything gets out of hand.

 

One last story that goes right to your point about checking everything carefully - late October, I was working a really old forested area. It was tough terrain because of the amount of over growth. I found an old foundation site in a very unusual area - it was literally at the bottom of a dense forested valley. I'm not sure how anyone lived there, but the foundation site looked to date from the late 18th to early 19th Century just by the appearance of the stone work.

 

I get a solid signal for copper. I dig it up and it looked like a worn out penny with the dirt still around it. So I threw it in my find pouch. When I got home, the dirt had dried and could be blown of with compressed air. In hand appeared a flat button with it's shank still intact, marked with very fancy type "Treble Gilt Standard." Anyhow, it may not seem as that big a deal of a find and it probably isn't if you compare it to a find from the Colonial period or earlier, but this button dates to around 1810, which is roughly 50 years before people first settled in the area where it was found. To me the hard value pales in comparison to how historically cool it is and the stories such finds tell.

 

[the blob]

This is something I'd enjoy doing, but with two rug rats, an ebay empire i need to build, a 60 hour a week job, and endless assignments from my wife, I don't know where the time would come from. The public dirt around NYC is incredibly well picked over, I'd have to venture to interesting areas. There is action in former sh*t shack shafts, but those are buried under lord knows what. Apparently a lot of interesting stuff could fall down them or be hidden aside from what was intended (they were called a "privy"):

 

http://www.glswrk-auction.com/006.htm