What I've found in August! :-)

[2chappies]

Happy Birthday to all the horses, especially to Leonie & Apple's lovely ones.  I hope you get lots of extra carrots today. 😉

Who will be first in with a special find for this month?

[grannyfrogsmith]

Picked these up during the week.No idea on the maker of the jug or the "cloud glass"vase and the juicer.

The mug is Swagman and the handpainted square dish is signed something Taylor.

[singingyamada]

My brother in law gave me a box of bottle he has excavated over the years wehn building retaining walls.  My son ( so proud as this shows potential for collecting) pounced on some coloured bottles and in bottles but these are the rest. Have washed them but cant get the brown of and am now thinking about what to do with them.

[kooriflag]

Hi Lee,

Take your time with these and see what you can find out about them. The bottle collectors pay big money for any rare ones and they have ways of polishing off marks too.

I know nothing about bottles but I go to their fairs to find pottery. They pay $$$$$ big bucks to get any really early stoneware bottles. So if there are any names or marks on them...what are they?

If not try sending pictures to Graham Lancaster auctions for a heads up or any other bottle collectors group and see what you can find out. Tou might have a family fortune there 😉

[siddieswans]

As already said, you are looking for impressed marks (generally found on shoulders or around base) or printed marks.

The blob tops are usually ginger beer, the ones with square shoulders may be inks? The one on the right of the green bottle looks like a jam jar. I have no knowledge but several very old Australian Bottle price Guides - BUT such things go in and out of favour quite quickly. If you can identify any by markings then you are much better off looking at RECENTLY completed listings IMO.

[frogshollowdrummer]

I use the "aussiebottledigger" site a lot for bottle id and learn something new everytime I go there

[singingyamada]

Thanks for the links Some are Starkey's, one is bakewell and another is from scotland

[oldworldlady]

I found spring at last 🙂

[2chappies]

:-x Beautiful, I ♥ spring!

[putney32]

OWL That is gorgeous.  this year we have had a very wet winter in Melb and at our old house ALL they daffies are blooming (almost no flowers last year).

Ive been around picking some for the house..... settlement is only a cpl of weeks away and then I wont have access there.

got a lovely new garden established at the unit in the lovely courtyard area.... going to be lovely... pinched quite a few plants from the old house too... divided up huge groups of Winter Roses,  Arum lilies and cacti.

i love Spring too.

[Anonymous]

Oh you girls with the green fingers are so lucky, black thumbs here.  I do like to look at others gardens though, both my girls have lovely gardens, got it from their Nannas'.