June was first designated Dairy Month in 1937 as a way to help distribute extra milk. Now, years later, the tradition continues at county fairs and bottle shows, where collectors show off their ...

“I think the heydey would have been in the late 1920s to the beginning of World War II,” said Haubner, a retired O.S.U. extension agent. Haubner said the 1940 census listed 1,743 farms in Clark County ...

Perhaps it's an old soda bottle with a Coca Cola logo. Perhaps its a hand-blown bottle found in a curio shop. For Michael Marcus, whose family owns Marcus Dairy, the choice for collection is milk ...

DECATUR - A popular ad slogan asks, "Got Milk?" But a group of Decatur area collectors prefer to ask, "Got milk bottles?" Dennis Downey has collected about 200 milk bottles over the years. He has fond ...

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SPENCER — Saying this out loud will jinx him, of course, but in his almost 20 years of collecting old milk bottles from across North Carolina, John Patterson Jr. has yet to drop one. Despite his good ...

In which reporter Kevin Stairiker ventures out to Lancaster County's many antique markets and finds something interesting between $5 and $10. Occasionally the item will be Lancaster-related; other ...

In case you were thinking about it, I wouldn’t recommend that you try to start a national franchise of stores that sell antique milk bottles. Yeah, that’s a thing. Sure, sometimes a niche can make you ...

GREENWICH — For two hours a day, low tide along Long Island Sound exposed a mud bank that conceals antique glass bottles, pottery, marbles, hotel tokens, pocket watches and coins. But when the tide ...

Most of us have a bottle at home that we've kept because it caught our fancy. Perhaps it's an old soda bottle with a Coca Cola logo. Perhaps its a hand-blown bottle found in a curio shop. For Michael ...