WHERE ARE OLD BOTTLES FOUND?

There's several ways to acquire old bottles. Most collectors like to dig for them in various places. There are also antique bottle shows, other collectors to trade with , buy from , or sell to. Additionally attics, basements, and crawl spaces can be a source for old bottles.

Probing is a method used to locate trash or privy pits

Sinkholes and rocky embankments may,too.

From other Collectors is good,too.

Old city dumps - (yes, women dig,too)

Construction sites.....

Hillsides and hollows may conceal old bottles

Ravines and gullies

...and water.....

"Strip-digging" - used in large shallow dumpsites

Outhouse or "privy" pits

Rarely found is old bottling company's stored supply.

Abandoned homesteads may produce bottles

A rare sighting of an Appalachian Sasquatch (behind my son, Michael).

These guys must work for the City....

Bottle shows are a definite source.

"ready to dig"

Bottles found at a demolition site

Demolition sites

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Credits:

Some pictures on this site are taken from the collections of other Friends & Collectors. Many have also contributed invaluable information over the years and supported me in my quest.

Thanks Friends.........

Ralph Van Brocklin of Boones Creek

Rob Kesner of Blountville

K.J. Bryant of Bristol

Bob Leonard of Bristol

Hunter Cox of Chesapeak,VA.

Tommy Fouch of Bristol

Dallas Bridgeman of Abingdon

John Gillispie of Johnson City

Harold Carlton of Johnson City

Herbert McClelland of Lake City, FL.

Bart Long of Bristol

Sources - Bibliography

i)      Library of King College, Bristol,Tenn. - Newspaper Microfilms

ii)     Bristol,TN-VA Public Library - Newspaper Microfilms &  City Directories

iii)     1904 Bristol Herald Industrial Supplement

iv)     Bristol-Goodson Industry & Resources in 1885 -W.F.Henry/Reporter

v)    Witness To An Epoch - Chas.J. Harkrader

vi)     Double Destiny   - Robert Loving

vii)    Historic Sites of Sullivan County - Muriel Spoden

viii)   Bristol Tennessee-Virginia : A History - V.N. "Bud" Phillips

ix)     Spirits & Medicinal Bottles of Bristol, Tenn.-Va.   - Charlie Barnette

x)       The Passing Years   - Bristol Historical Association

xi)      City of Bristol @ 1915

xii)     A Pictorial History - Bristol Historical Association

xiii)    Whiskey, An American Pictorial History - Oscar Getz

xiv)    Prohibition, 13 Years That Changed America - Edward Behr

xv)     The Shadow Of The Bottle - Review & Herald Publishing Co.

xvi)    Historic Sullivan - Oliver Taylor

xvii)   One Year At A Time - Bristol - 1907 - Lonnie & Kim Blevins

xviii)   Honoring Our Heritage: Faces & Places From The Past -

                       Lonnie & Kim Blevins and Roy & Carolyn Williams

xvix)   Between the States: Bristol Tennessee - Virginia During the Civil War - V.N. "Bud" Phillips

xx)      Pioneers in Paradise - Bristol, Tenn-Va. - V.N. "Bud" Phillips

xxi)     A Good Place to Live - Bristol, Tenn-Va. - V.N. "Bud" Phillips

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