Ocean bottles

[Reeks]

Went looking for lobsters this afternoon but the water was quite murky..
I found a spot where sand thinned out and turned into bed rock.
Amongst this flat bedrock was a few big flat rocks and these bottles were lightly held in place.

I grabbed the bottles and turned the rocks over to see if there were any old coins- only crushed pearlescent turbine shells, pretty enough.
Then a heap of tarwhine and bream showed up to have a look which was pretty cool. But when Mr wobbegong showed up too i was out of there. (Had one latch onto my heel for a few minutes when i was younger)

The amber bottle has 1935 on the base and the clear bottle has '2' on the bottom.

Thought i would share with you lot.
Reeko

 

[lids]

I was told by a friend that collects these sorts of things that the seam is the key to telling the age.
The two examples you have there may back this theory up as there is a seam on the clear bottle is there one on the dark bottle.

a quick look in the fridge will show modern bottles to have a seam, or two

older bottles dont have a seam because the were blown.

so no seam and you may have a collectable.

 

[Reeks]

Both bottles have seams, thought it was cool that a bottle could survive that long without breaking in the ocean so close to shore.
Thanks for asking your mate.
Reeko