Vetus Vitrum
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It has been a bit since I signed up on the site and did not intend to be so long in saying howdy. I am in Marlinton, WV right on the Greenbrier river. Last year I began repairing the bank of the river and found a few small bottles and a bunch of broken glass. I decided to start doing what I could to clean up the glass out of the river and as I did I found more bottles and jars. I began studying the manufacturers marks and recently started posting my finds on an auction site. The town here was established in 1759 but most of the pieces I find date from about 1900 up into the early 1950s when, I reckon, trash service began and folks quit burning their trash piles down by the river. There was an early soda bottling company here in town called Mason (family name) that sold out to Coca-Cola around 1939. There was also a hospital and a couple of doctor's offices on the river, as such I find quite a few medicine bottles. Along with those categories, I find containers the that pertain to every aspect of life that made up this town. I will be posting some photos soon of my finds and asked questions as they apply to identification, cleaning, repairing and such. I love collecting things I find whether it be rocks, artifacts, coins or in this case glass bottles and jars. I am fascinated by the history, the artistic style of the glass work and, of course, the pretty colors. I look forward to learning more about this hobby and sharing my finds. Thanks for reading my introduction, Ernest