these are oldies

[duggee27]

part of my bottle collection. these were all extracted from the depths of the richmond river - ballina, far north coast of nsw.
mate and i went diving in the river just to get wet and started finding bottles, then we got the bug. as we both had a small business, opportunities to dive were slim but we found the time , and bottles!!




the 'skittle' has , in coin speak, die cracks all over

[Robster]

"Bottler". :good: Those in the 'know' also keep the locations of old rubbish tips a closely guarded secret.!

[Goldseeker]

Bottle finding was a good pastime for gold prospectors as well.   I didn't find any bottles but I did find some gold.........

[robbiegal]

looks like they show up in better nick for having been under water than buried in dirt
top bottles

we are convinced that we have a captain cook bottle that was washed up on the beach in cooktown!

[duggee27]

we did need to clean most of them that were shell encrusted - in a bucket of battery acid !!! then a wipe of olive oil to make them sparkle ..
others were just buried in sand and clean as the the day were dumped 150 years ago !

[robbiegal]

in that case, some before pics would be good to see
worlds away from the coin cringe about cleaning!

my son bought me a similar looking blue bottle for chrissy a few years ago
they are lovely
I think that I remember something about there being a certain mineral or chemical in the glass and the blue goes darker if exposed to the sunlight (?)

I can see several that look very hand made
great bottles