Imitation Bitters Bottle

Travel around the country from cache to cache. Practice "CITO".Cache In Trash Out is an ongoing environmental initiative supported by the worldwide geocaching community. Since 2002, geocachers have been dedicated to cleaning up parks and other cache-friendly places around the world. Learn more at www.geocaching.com/cito.

Antique bottles are more popular than ever! Not since the 1970's has the popularity of antique bottle collecting grown at such a rapid rate. The reassurange of collecting is due to many factors, but one major contributing factor is the rising popularity of Internet, and online auctions.

Ebay.com, the world's largest online marketplace, has helped tremendously in creating a new marketplace for collecting and inspiring a new generation of collectors.

More likely, however, it is the fact that bottles stand on their own as beautiful handmade objects and on older pieces made before 1900, no two are alike. For some, bottles remind them of the old west; saloons, brothels and traveling medicine shows, the days of Buffalo Bill and Mark Twain and the bottles that came with them. Other people collect fine glass, made by the most expert glass production houses in the United States at the time. Factories like Sandwich and Stiegel and the other glass houses in New England and New Jersey. Still, others simply collect whatever catches their fancy, their collections, a hodgepodge of newer and older, blues and ambers, mostly dictated by whim and simple interest, and a desire to just collect.

Who knows, the bottle that you think is trash might be the real thing. This travel bug bottle is a reproduction of a bitter's bottle and has no value except to remind you to practice CITO.