Love that Ruppert bottle!
My first J Ruppert beer was a Knickerbocker, found where the bridge crosses Trout Creek on opening day of trout season.
I was 12yrs old.
I've found a couple of these in dumps. My guess is that they might have been for 'smelling salts' for when Ladies of that time got the 'vapors' i.e. fainting spells.
I've got a Theo Young in amber.
I see mussels in your pics did you find them, in salt or brackish water?
Can we call these 'historical litter' and where do we draw the line between litter and historical artifact? ;)
Can't disagree with that, but a close up of the neck of the bottle on the left might help with determining the age of that particular example because it looks like an old style applied or tooled lip.
I don't think this bottle spent any time floating around in the water. The leather would have come off the glass.
I think we'd need close ups of the neck without the stopper so we could get a good look at the glass itself that all this decoration is on. Also, a picture of the bottom of the...
With all the effort put into the decoration I'm thinking it's a one-off art piece. The map shows the west coasts of both North and South America right down to Cape Horn. there's too much labor put into the decoration for it to be one of a run of commercial bottles.
More likely an engine block too. :D
Seriously though, if the vessel hasn't been stripped for fittings you can find cleats, chocks and running light fixtures.
I figured that's what was going on.
This brings up another question about the situation where there is a bottle listed there (ebay,etsy) where the shipping costs are more than the price of the bottle offered for sale. This makes no sense because if the buyer decides down the road to sell the...
When I was a kid on the Cape about 60 odd years ago this bottler, Nemasket from Middleboro Ma., offered all the non-franchised soda flavors. The flavor was on the crown. I've got a few crown tops I've picked up here or there because they're a link back to earlier times for me..
I have a green...