I was a digger in 70 80s I could make more money digging than working a good job are dumps were pre1850 pontil dumps don't find them anymore or very rare to find it was crazy digging back then historical flase pontil bitters figural pontill just crazy

i completely agree with you. traders and selling is all part of the adventure. being a seller does NOT make you a sell out. congratulations to Clayton on the sale cant wait for the next digging video

Hater's gonna hate Brandon. Keep up the good work. I really enjoy the educational aspect of your videos.

Well said, man, and congrats to Clayton! PS - Another reason a digger might sell is duplicate bottles.

Thank you for answering a lot of the questions I have had about this hobby. And, yes I would enjoy a video about buying, selling and trading bottles in the future.

I live in rural south Australia and glass dumps are pretty common outside of town in the scrub I got into collecting bottles because I would go bush walking and find really rare bottles for free.

I would love to see a video on buying and selling!

Congrats Clayton. I had my fingers crossed. I even crossed my legs too for added luck.

Fun video Brandon ! I have sold a few of my collection just to see what I could get .....lol I also have had a couple professionally tumbled intending to sell & fell in love with them and decided to hold on to them ..... it’s always YOUR choice ...

I have found like 200 bottles at this point since I started this hobby, and it has not once occurred to me that someone might think that I shouldn't be selling old bottles. My bottles were discarded as trash and left to the elements until I SAVED them.

Good video Brandon. Great explanation. Not everyone can get out and dig for bottles, and not everyone can find bottles to resell, or has the knowledge to buy and resell. You and your digging friends are providing unique expertise, and knowledge, and bottles to collectors that can’t do what you do. You are making a market, providing goods and services to willing participants, and expanding good old fashioned capitalism to the far corners of the world. Keep up the good work!

An item is worth what a person is willing 2 pay. Some people lose thier heads if they want it bad enough. Great vid.👍👍👍👍👌👍

I know I am late to the party but better late than never. I think it's a really Great idea to do videos on buying bottles because it reaches the other treasure hunting aspect or concept and alot of people are passionate about bottles who have health issues who can't dig 20 ft holes and watch your videos salvating at the mouth and just want to get their hands on an old Hutch or any of these examples on your channel. Thanks for your content and hard work.

That was a very interesting video! Thank you for sharing the information and more videos like this would be a fun and informative addition to your others.

Please make a video of searching for bottles at antique stores I would love to see that and thanks for all you guys do love your videos

I see no problem with buying, selling, and trading, for historical bottles. People want to be able to touch, feel, hold, and talk about such items. My bottle collection is going to increase by leaps and bounds. Even though I live in Southern California, where we have earthquakes daily with some being large, they will be wrapped up in bubble wrap, and placed in empty draws that can not be tipped over. I would love to see what it would be like to be at a bottle show. That would be totally awesome!!

Explaining the amount you make isn't needed,as far as I am concerned.... Glad you're doing well... You guys are honest,hard working and easy going... Appreciate your posts.....🤓

Don’t forget that this is the place where you get the real bottle digging dirt astrology from the team at adventure archeology. EVERY FRIDAY

Absolutely nothing wrong with what you are doing. Buy, sell, trade or keep. Just keep enjoying what you're doing!

I love your channel and videos. I don't collect bottles but I learn some cool things along the way. You are tops when it comes to collecting bottles. You are an expert on the subject as far as I am concerned. And you enjoy your hobby. Keep the cool videos coming. Dave blackburn

I discovered Adventure Archaeology last year & enjoyed learning about your hobby. I love the history you share. I’ve learned there’s so much more than digging a hole, hoping to find some bottles. Just that part is very hard work. I see nothing wrong with buying & selling & making a profit. No one has to pay the price unless they really want the bottle. Keep up the good work & sharing your hobby.

Cool, I really enjoyed the video, I'd like to see a video on a buying and reselling situation. You guys do a great job, keep it up.

I opened up a door in our basement wooded floor to fix the main waterline in a flip house that I own. Lowered myself, and lowered myself down. I turned the flashlight on, and seen bottles everywhere. Many were broken, but I still hauled out of there over 200 bottles in one day. I now found a new hobby. I go down, and digfor a couple of hour's a week, and find more bottles to bring home. The only problem is my wife is not pleased that I took over one of our adult daughter's old bedroom. I'm closing in on 300 bottles from the 1940's to the late 1800's. Luckily my other hobby of collecting rocks, and crystal's is in my workshop or she would do away with both my hobbies in short time. 😅

Great job lads !! It’s called acquired knowledge, if you can spot a bargain and the seller is happy with the price then good luck to you for on selling and making a profit!!

Wonderful tips. Thanks for the video 👍

I will enjoy any videos you put out on digging, buying, selling bottles. It give me an idea of how to collect and what the value is of certain bottles and how to find the value. How to locate areas and what to look for... Thanks for doing what you do...

that was some awesome info. Thanx Guys and keep digging

I buy and resale all the time. I bought some rare bottles from a construction worker onetime. He was asking 3 bucks a piece for bottles that were super rare. When I told him they were worth a lot more than that he laughed and said not to me. Ended up buying his entire truck bed full of bottles because I felt bad cherry picking. Just be fair to people and ethics isn't a problem. I still like you guys!

That’s awesome. I’d like to see so buy and sell videos as long as it doesn’t take away from the digging videos. Congrats Clayton!!

Very informative. Congratulations on your sale. Glad it worked out for you. Made some person very happy I’m sure. Keep on digging and selling.

Agree with what you said 100% 👍 A few other factors that have affected prices of bottles in Australia is people digging hoards of previously rare bottles at a new site and on the flip side the destruction of rare collections in bushfires and earthquakes . In Perth they dug out an old dump next to the river to make way for a quay and were pulling out thousands of Codd bottles and the value of a few of my most prized bottles basically halved. Loving your videos,cheers

I for one would like to see at least one video on the buying and reselling of bottles. I just stumbled on your channel. I have been watching for a while, wish I had known about it in my younger days, I might have tried it. As it is I get the thrill of the hunt from your adventures.

Nice history lesson and tutorial. You are a great 👍resource and authority. Keep it up.

You guys need to quit worrying about all the jealous haters out there and trying to justify your hobby and your actions. There are many people out there that just want to start shit and slam anyone else’s success or enjoyment. Just ignore them. Great videos. I enjoy watching them.

Find more! Whether deals in shops or out digging. You have a talent you've spent time and work developing. You are able to recognize value in what others either don't care about, or haven't put in the work to learn. I can relate. I've found all kinds of treasures in the trash. I learned to pay attention and then found my markets. Some people will scoff and ask how much time I spend digging in trash. I don't. Treasure stands out from trash. (That's actually quite profound.) It just has a way of presenting itself. Some finds come through intuition. I'll be walking up to the cab, feel "wait a second" and go back and see the treasure. Sometimes little. Sometimes more than a weeks wages. I give thanks and carry on. Happy hunting. :)

Wow, congratulations Clayton and to the new owner of a beautiful bottle. I'm sure it's going to be front and center in the new owners collection. Thanks for sharing and take care.

Yes sir your right I dug a civil war confederate Rifleman button two weeks after I got my atpro . The atpro was at the time 750.00 I sold the button for 800.00 so my detector paid for its self two weeks after I got it and still digging up great treasure . PS it also got my wife off my butt for buying my detector with out talking about it with her first lol

That was pretty exciting I enjoyed that well done Vance as you say helps pay the gas and other expenses nothing wrong in making a bit of profit it took years to get the knowledge and probably a few mistaken buy's to get to where you are today so I say quite right to sell and pleased for Vance..Take care an dig safe,best wishes from BigfootDigger Edinburgh Scotland..👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍☕🍩😎

Who on earth would object to y'all getting paid for what you do? I've seen you guys dig- there's not enough money in the world to get me out in the heat, digging 6 ft.+ holes. You've GOT to love what you do.

Outstanding tips, thank you!

Yes, seeing the trading, buying, selling, and reselling of bottles would be interesting. All hobbies must be supported with dollars, but a self-supporting hobby is ideal.

A buying and selling video would be cool. I think your history minute alone shows your love for history. Making some money off the hobby adds some spice to it!

Liking yall more and more and this also helped with the question I asked you the other day. Thanks buddy and keep up the great work!!!

Very informative. Thank you.

I guess I don't see the so-called call conflict between digging, buying, selling, etc. It is entirely the business of the person involved. So good on you, as they say in Oz. I would enjoy seeing a buying treasure hunt, but my fav is the digging & the stream hunts. Keep well, Nina

That is great news glad the bottle price jumped at the end I thought it might , No reason to not make some money and enjoy what you are doing at the same time . Hope you two find many more rare bottles .

I agree on your views on coke hobbleskirts. I live in Maui Hawaii and I have found that every island had their own embossing weather it was bye island or city. I also want to note that many Hawaiian CokaColas are marked with T.H. Territory of Hawaii. That ups the value. Maui has 5 or 6 variations of this. In my opinion the most valuable Hawaiian Coke a Cola is from The island of Molokai City of Kaunakakai T.H. I've see it sold for $250. While Maui T.H. Bottles go for $50- $100

We have a lot of glass factories in our area most of the old bottles were not dumped they were crushed and remade into other bottles so it's rare to find one in a dump or a river most of the old bottles I find are at auctions so I buy and sell for my collection

Fascinating! Thanks for letting us in behind the scenes. I would love to see a video on how you buy and sell. I was a "book scout" in the 70's and 80's (finding collectible old books and reselling to dealers) and I imagine the bottle business is similar. It really boils down to how much you know about your subject, and you seem to be quite the expert.

Never understood what goes into what you are doing. Thanks for the information.

really useful information!! I totally agree that it is fine to sell stuff you find on hunts to defer costs. it can get expensive for sure. . we base most of our hunts out of Denver, which requires a plane ticket for me, meet up with my buds. often drive hundreds of miles to new mexico, it's, Arizona etc we like to find things we have little interest in, but know other people collect. we do this to deflect the myriad of costs involved.

I am thrilled to sell a bottle for $50. If I got $3900 for just one bottle I would be ecstatic and in awe

Keep it up mate,I'll try my local river when the weather is warmer,very cold here in Tasmania

Great video

I would love to see a buy and resell video. All of your videos are very informative and educational.

More like this please xx

The insulator hobby is the same! I’ve actually brought down the value of many rare insulators over the past year. It’s not about money for me it’s about the history of the pieces and making a living. When you need the extra money you need it. Times are tough!

Great information! I always enjoy watching your videos.

Well explained, thanks 👍👍☺️

I would love to see a video about buying and selling bottles. This is such a cool and interesting hobby and if you can make a few dollars to defray expenses, good for you. Its the same for thrifters, antique collectors, anything. One question I have is when several of you go out digging for bottles how do you decide who gets what?

Good information on the digging or finding them. I'm disable now and would love to go out digging. To your point on if you dig it or buy it. I do the same thing. I'm a soda can collector pre 1980. I have had nice finds through people I know on picking up from 1 can, bottle to a lot or small collection and keep some and sell or trade them. I'm old school and like trading with collectors from all over the states to even Canada or overseas. I started to collect Los Angeles and surrounding cities bottles . Paper label soda bottles are my favorite. I also pick up soda labels and find the correct bottles and crowns that went on them. My newest thing is the blob tops now adding to my collection. My first one was Los Angeles, Picked up a Santa Ana Ca. Blob top that is awesome and YES a Coca Cola blob top Los Angeles is on my wish list. I look in antique shops and yard sales for them also. Soda cans are growing in prices now. Some go up in price big time that are a $10.00 to $70.00 bucks in the book. I've seen a lot of cans just get big money and have no idea why. I do the same thing on Ebay look up the can and see what it sold for and average that out and list. Also you have my email when you come across some Slicks 6oz 6 1/2oz and so on. Email me when you get a chance. mark_perez323@yahoo.com Thanks Mark

you should definitely post one buying and selling!

You really do have to put a lot of work into these digs and finds.And like you said its not close.I biked 3miles today for a creek walking video for my KZfaq channel.Needless to say I didn't find anything.But sometimes you do and sometimes you don't.

It's no-one else's business if you want to sell what you dug out of the ground or bought at another location. It is yours to do with what you like 🙄 Thanks for all this insight. It was very informative 👍☺

I watched that auction live. I didnt even know it was Clayton's auction at first until I saw the name and location then it truly became interesting.

Dude thank you, I dont make any money on bottles. I dig and spend a lot of money on bottles in Pittsburgh. Im only 32 and I have 100k in bottles. I would never consider selling these bottles. But I can't imagine what will happen to them when I die. People my age and younger just dont give a shit about bottles and antique glass or really history at all. I belong to the Pittsburgh Bottle Club and Im the youngest by 25 years. I love glass and have dug for it and collected it since 2010 in Arkansas, Louisiana and now for the past 7 years in western PA, WV and eastern OH. Glass is an easily accessible and incredibly beautiful route to learn about history. But nobody cares about history anymore my age or younger. Its sad as hell. They only care about being "social justicy" without actually learning anything about history at all or going outside to learn anything. Efffff, I just want people respect history and learn about it; whether it be bad history or good and preserve both sides of it.

Show more of this content. Thanks guys

Awesome video as usual. Congratulations Clayton!

Brandon, please congratulate Clayton for me! Awesome sale! I'd love to see a video on buying and the reselling process. Why would anyone consider you a "sell-out" for selling a bottle you dig? That's crazy, it's yours to do with as you wish. This is a fantastic video, I enjoyed it very much!

Great video!

Yes I would like to see that.

Yeah I would be interested in seeing you buying and selling bottles that would be informative really I know when my brother buys bottles if he has more than one or two he will resell some of his I see nothing wrong with it I think you guys do a good job and I enjoy your videos keep them coming Bill Johnson North Carolina

Yes do a buying bottle video

Cool t-shirt!..Good vid

enjoyed this video alot.

Happy for Clayton! Good job! And to all the haters out there, Stuff it. Just because someone's hobby is fun and may make a few dollars is no reason to be ugly. If you cant say something nice, don't say anything!

You nailed it Brandon bro great job

Nice job on the sale. Congrats guys.

Sage advice-another great video!

Clayton did good 👍👍!! I would like to see a buy and resale video.😉

would love to see a going out and buying and reselling video.

Well said bro....Keep diggin!!!!

I agree with you. It is hard for me to find bottle spots so mostly I buy and when opportunity is there to make a little profit I will sell pieces I don't like as much as others. Unlike silver and gold items or relics from metal detecting, bottles take up a lot of storage space. It is not easy to sell bottles. Just because e.g. embossed milk sells for 20 + at an antique store does not mean that is the value. To most collectors that bottle is worth probably 5-10$. Going to buy a lot of embossed local drug store for 2$ a piece, plus a bunch of other insulators and bottles from a fellow digger this week. Probably will make a video of the loot lol. Would definitely see videos about reselling. ATB, Sebastian

Great video, it would be interesting to see more

Much respect,enjoy your videos

Buy and resale buy and resale

Bottle collecting is not as big in the UK, after doing a river hunt and finding some antique bottles I contacted an auctioneer who told me people do collect bottles but you need a job lot and that will sell for about £30

But your enjoyment is worth the money ‼️

Hey make a profit! No worries! People sell stuff all day everyday and make a profit!

i hope you make a million man! i go out looking, i'm happy to find just about anything that isn't a bud light bottle :) btw, there is no shortage of bud light bottles in indiana

Yes I would like to know I have a orange snap old bottle it has made with real fruit can you tell me how much this is worth

I do bealieve that would interest a vast amount of people who watch your channel. I feel like if purchase a bottle and you want to resell it, that is entirely up to you. I don't think ANYONE has a right to judge you for your decision. The only way anyone would have a right to feel any kind of way about it is if THEY purchased it and gave it to you as a gift. Even then, it is up to you what you so with it.

Don't let trolls bother you Brandon. As your channel gets larger it will probably get worse.

Roughly 13% after eBay and PayPal. Roughly 100 bucks for insurance on a $6000 bottle. Which is what it should be insured for even though you can’t on eBay insured for more than the selling price. Sorry I am an EBAYER

Hi good day I found mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals vintage bottle but I no idea how much is it or we have a value for this time?

be careful with what you do sell - there are laws about selling certain artifacts - I learned about it in archaeology classes in college :)

Still entertaining! Rox

Just jealous‼️

Hi sir Good day,did you buy 1834 Destilerias bottle,it is philippines bottle aince 1834.

I sell a lot of the things I find, I don't see why anyone has a problem with it. Are we supposed to hang on to every little thing until the day we die? And what happens then? Someone else sells it all, or doesn't understand its value and it goes to the dump. And if I kept every thing I've ever found I'd need a much bigger house. People need to understand too, that there are some who don't have the financial luxury of hanging on to valuable items. For some people that $3900 dollar bottle might be what pays a medical bill, or covers car repairs, who can say? I could sure use $3900 more than I need a bottle on a shelf.