Cleaning vintage bottles is a task that blends history with restoration. Whether you bought an old coke bottle at a flea market or stumbled upon a trove of antique glass, knowing how to properly get ...
Old vintage glass may be hazardous to eat or drink from, but you can instead use antique glass pieces for an artistic DIY ...
Mike Cavanaugh’s kayak takes him into the Great South Bay, Hewlett Bay and Reynolds Channel, but the antique glass bottles he finds there take him through bygone eras as far back as the 1800s.
While Victorian bottles might be elaborately painted or etched, they usually had only corks or small glass ball stoppers. Even elegant Lalique bottles made in France at the turn of the century had ...
The first bottle that Hank Hallam purchased 40 years ago was a reproduction historic flask for the sum of three bucks. The bottle would be worth about $12 today, but Hank and his wife, Pat, began ...
A window shelf that holds a collection of cobalt-blue bottles attracts attention, so many new collectors buy their bottles by color. Most early bottles were made of pale-blue or aqua glass. It was ...
As a youth, Steve Charing denied that his hairline was receding. His scalp was growing, that was all. Today he is 53, and his mirror shows skin as far back as the eye dares to look. So now he collects ...
Can’t see the whole story? Sign in or subscribe. Bottles are one of the everyday items that many people take for granted. Bruce Heckman isn’t one of them. A chance purchase of a bookcase more than ...
People from all over the state made their way to Aiken on Saturday to share their common interest in antiques and pottery at the 11th annual Horse Creek Antique Bottle and Pottery Club Show and Sale.