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Vintage bottle digging adventure!

Looking for a taste of vintage bottle-digging history? This throwback video captures our roots with early footage, family ...
W earing chest waders and armed with a flashlight, gloves and pitchfork, Nick Fredsall of Stockbridge is ready to start hunting. His prey — century-old bottles. ¶ The ideal day for a dig is the sunny ...
And then there were five. When William James Beal crept out under cover of night and buried 20 uniform bottles filled with a mixture of soil and seed in 1879, he lit the fuse on agriculture’s longest ...
In 1879, botanist William J. Beal filled 20 bottles with soil and seeds and buried them on what is now Michigan State University’s campus grounds. In April 2021, the 16th bottle was unearthed, and its ...
This week we head back to our 1890-1910 dig site only to unearth possibly the rarest bottle ever seen on our channel! This bottle is one of less than three known and is worth a pretty penny on today's ...
Old, colorful bottles line a window of Fred Bjork’s Colorado Springs home. “The morning sun hits this wall and puts on a rainbow effect,” he says. “That’s one reason people collect bottles.” The ...
GREENWICH — For two hours a day, low tide along Long Island Sound exposed a mud bank that conceals antique glass bottles, pottery, marbles, hotel tokens, pocket watches and coins. But when the tide ...
You can find a lot of things at the bottom an old outhouse, including local history. You can find a lot of things at the bottom an old outhouse, including local history. Adventures in Privy Digging ...
Old, colorful bottles line a window of Fred Bjork’s Colorado Springs home. “The morning sun hits this wall and puts on a rainbow effect,” he says. “That’s one reason people collect bottles.” The ...