Vintage Milk Bottles
Mike
I'll bet that our parents never thought people would collect antique and vintage milk bottles. There are many people today who cannot even remember when milk came in bottles and was delivered to your door. All they have ever seen are the plastic and cardboard cartons sitting on the shelf of the local grocery store. When I was a kid, every house on my street had a milk box where you would set out your empty milk bottles at night, and find full bottles waiting in the morning. It seemed like I could never get up in time to actually catch the milkman making his delivery.
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 ANTIQUE MILK BOTTLES LOT KNARR DAIRY NEAR DUBOIS PA  US $19.99
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 ANTIQUE MADDENS SUNNYMEADE MILK FARM 10oz GLASS BOTTLE US $16.99
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 ANTIQUE PHILADELPHIA MILK PRODUCERS Pint Glass BOTTLE US $19.99
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 Antique Ontario OTTAWA ONTARIO purple pint milk bottle US $35.00
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I think it is kind of cool that a lot of people have started collecting vintage and antique milk bottles today. The old bottles had the name of the dairy on them so that they would not get lost. Now, the name on the bottle seems to have a lot to do with its value to collectors. Of course bottle collectors also look at the general condition of the bottle and the quality of the printing that remains as well. One of these days I'd really like to go back to the place where I grew up and go digging through the woods at the end of our street. I remember finding all sorts of bottles there when I was a kid.
If you're interested, there are many sites on the Internet devoted to collecting vintage milk bottles (which date back to around the 1880's) and other antique bottles dating back hundreds of years.
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