We always washed ours, but we didn't know any better.

Does glass get a patina?

My best river find. Approximately 1878 C Conrad original Budweiser. Have a cabinet full of old bottles of differnt kinds and vintage.

Cool pixs all around. I like the little blue one you found today!!

Old stuff around here is hard to come by since Euro-American settlement isn't that old. The best I've done is to find an old cow bell out on some rough pasture land on the west end of Law Dog's county. My younger high school kid found what I think is a bison horn skull part out of a bank of a local river. An old supervisor at work was going to have his college friend carbon date it but that hasn't happened it. Surprisingly enough, old bison horns don't go for that much on ebay...