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From antique fountain pens to vintage perfume bottles, here are 12 under-the-radar collections that are rising in value, sparking interest among collectors and investors alike. 1. Stamps
An iron pontiled soda or beer bottle, c. 1855. Privy digging is directly linked to antique bottle collecting. Glass or clay bottles are the most likely items to be found in an average 19th century privy. Yet, more often than not they are found prohibitively damaged.
Vintage spirits, also known as dusties, are old, discontinued, or otherwise rare bottles of liquor. [1] The collectibility of a bottle is based on rarity, with age as a secondary factor. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The name "dusty" refers to the fact that many such now-collectible bottles had been sitting on a liquor store shelf or unopened in a home or ...
A clay pipe discovered while excavating an old bottle dump (ca. 1870) Dump digging can yield different items and artifacts in each location. A town dump can be somewhat different than a farm dump or a railroad dump, but in each case there could be industrial-age pottery, stoneware, tobacco pipes, military relics like bayonets and gun barrels, musket balls, uniform buttons and other buttons ...
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The first beer, Carlton Draught, was brewed on 13 October of that year. [10] The brewery, however, did not have an associated bottling plant, so bottled beer still had to be shipped from Melbourne. Due to the logistics of shipping bottles such a long distance, the company decided in April 1958 to introduce a bigger bottle, a 2,270 ml (80 imp fl ...
In 1941, Jax Brewing Company greatly expanded its production by bottling Old Union Beer for New Orleans–based Union Brewing, increasing sales by around 50%. [6] The brewery also credited with being the first to sell beer in a six-pack in 1945 or 1946, as a result of market pressure from breweries using disposable cans. [7]
Hobgoblin was the best-known and most popular beer brewed at Wychwood Brewery and was created by Chris Moss. It continues to be marketed in the wake of Wychwood Brewery's closure. It is 5.2% abv in bottles, 4.5% in cans [10] and 4.5% (previously 5.0%, and before that 5.6%, and originally 6.5%) on cask, and is described by Wychwood as a "Ruby ...