"TREASURE" Want to turn heads, just say the word! Most of these old treasures are from the mid 1800's! They are called Corkers, Aqua Medicines, & Bitters Bottles. I have a broken (thrown overboard) Cameo plate (80%), Homeopathic vials, and other embossed "Graduated" medicine bottles and some glass stoppers. Also old clear extract, aqua Lea & Perrins, aqua "Hall & Lyons" New Orleans, one still has the cork in it because it has a piece broken out and it was also thrown overboard, a white glass candle holder, some type of white glass salve, or cold cream container, a "Sloans Liniment"bottle and lots of other old odd pieces.

I found this particular treasure site because the square bottom of one of my "Amber" Hostetters Bitters Bottles" had just the end sticking above the sand with barnacles all over it, I thought it was a "red brick" and passed it up repeatedly! I touched it with a probe one day, and it had that telltale ring instantly! I found several late model boat anchors and an "anchor" that turned out to be an old iron Real land mine the same way, the back end was slightly above the sand bottom covered with algae and barnacles and just didn't "look right", as Long John Silver said: "Tain't In Nature"!

I found a structure underwater at another location that I thought looked like and old angled fence post line, not that far from the bank, that I used to pick clean of fishing lures and hook & sinker lines that anglers replenished regularly when they cast out and got snagged! Guess What??? It is the Ribs of a Boat Wreck!

  This is the "Brick" that led me to the other bottles!

The Embossing Says: Dr. J Hostetters Stomach Bitters

I found two amber bottles!

What a Thrill to uncover and read this Aqua Medicine bottle!

The Embossing Says: Dr Pierces's Golden Medical Discovery

Then another real moment, someone drank two of em...

This Decantur was a special find because it has the date embossed right on it! It is a souvenier of the Chicago Worlds Fair!

On the right of the modern building in the center is a "T" Pee, on the left of it is a Log Cabin. The Arc across the top says: A Century Of Progress 1833-1933 Someone threw it out the window of a train car that crossed a small local river on a Railroad Car Ferry. (No Train Bridge)

This bottle is the fourth from the left in the top photo. It is embossed on both sides, the front says: Special Battery Oil, Thomas A. Edison Incorporated, primary battery division, Bloomfield, N.J. U.S.A. The reverse has the large script signature logo: Thomas A. Edison, and trade, reg.U.S.Mark Pat Office, made in U.S.A.

From the site of a Lighthouse no longer standing, lots of old carbon battery anodes scattered around the bottom too!

This small vial's label tells the whole story, the embossing says:

30 PHENOLAX WAFERS

UPJOHN