1880 Bottle found by Workers on Wallach Place this Morning

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by Prince Of Petworth June 12, 2014 at 12:10 pm 9 Comments

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@PuckBuddys tweets us the photo above:

“A crew dug up this circa 1880 bottle this morning while working on our street. Wallach Place. Both gas and water crews are working the block. A quick google estimates put its value around $1500, maybe more”

So cool!

austindc

Wait, what? Amazing! What a cool find! Makes me think I should stop picking up the bottles our neighbors leave all over the street. In 130 years, we can cash in!
B’Dale Res

When i dug up my basement, I found over 50 battles in tack. I found an additional 30+ broken bottles. The soil around DC is littered with them…
- MJ
  
  Intact! Jeez….
  sorry
- justinbc
  
  Yeah, our 100 year old house is on an elevated lot, so as we’ve been digging up our yard we find a disturbing amount of glass in the soil. I’m guessing back then (and even now) they just throw in whatever to fill the hole…a lot of concrete blocks too, which really suck when shoveling.
Anonymous

who kept the bottle?
- Prince Of Petworth
  
  I was told the worker who found it.
Mike

Yea…this site says it is extremely rare. Was a bottle of “stomach bitters”.
http://www.peachridgeglass.com/2011/08/professor-byrne-and-landsberg-some-highly-decorative-bottles/
- GoPetworthGo
  
  VERY cool to compare the dirty bottle pic above with the clean, new looking yet identical bottle of stomach bitters in your link. Thanks for providing that context, makes the find that much more interesting.
Rebecca

So we just found a bottle in our front yard as well. We doubt that is as old as the one captured here, but this post does make us curious if it’s worth anything. Any tips on where to go get an appraisal? Tx!

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