Hawaiian Antique Bottles
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This website is dedicated to Antique Hawaiian bottles that are dug and found in Hawaii. This website will deal mainly with Hawaiian bottles for example any antique bottles with Hawaiian words on them, like a Hawaiian soda bottle that says, Honokaa soda works. "Honokaa" being the Hawaiian word or a gin that says Honolulu on it, but this site will also cover other bottles that are commonly dug in Hawaii like the good old bottle you find everywhere. The famous and rare (Ha Ha) "Clorox" and even other bottles like oriental medicine and black glass bottles. This site will also provide information on these historical bottles that are becoming harder to find. Hawaii is an island so that limits the amount of bottles here and once they are all dug up or paved over or what ever it may be, then it will be even harder to find Hawaiian bottles, they are truly becoming part of Hawaii's history. Please come back often because I try to add new pictures frequently, I have so many bottles and information but so little time to do it all since this is my hobby.. So please enjoy the Hawaiian History in the form of glass bottles. Antique Hawaiian Bottles is a glimpse into Hawaii's past. It was in 1851 when a German man imported the first known embossed Hawaiian soda bottle, his name was Ulrich Alting. After that the abbreviations S.I. were used to indicate the Sandwich Islands and H.I. would indicate the Hawaiian Islands. In 1900 when Hawaii became a U.S. Territory then they started to use H.T. for Hawaiian Territory and T.H. for the Territory of Hawaii. Hawaii had 38 different soda companies that made around 270 varieties of bimal (blown in mold applied lip) soda bottles. That is because of the fact that the Hawaiian island are in the middle of the Pacific ocean and transportation from island to island and even to the mainland is difficult and costly so there were plenty of local establishments that had there own soda bottle companies. Please note that none of the bottles were made in Hawaii, the bottles were imported empty and then filled here in the Islands. Hawaii most certainly has some very rare and collectable bottles. I have seen 1 Hawaii Soda bottle sell in the year 2007 for $3000, just for 1 bottle. I would say that is a rare collectable. Of course not all Hawaiian bottles are so costly, there are common ones that still sell for $25 or so and then the machine made bottles can be even less but some machine made Hawaiian soda bottles I have seen sell for $400. So it really depends on the bottles itself and if it is in real good condition for example a Hawi Ice soda bottle can sell for over $200 and a Kona bottling works can sell for $30. If you have questions about Antique Hawaiian Bottles then feel free to email me, if you want to know the value or any other information just email me at----,
info@antiquehawaiianbottles.com
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This is a group picture of some nice Antique Hawaiian bottles.	This is a nice example of one of Hilo's drug companies, this is the Hilo Drug Co. That Busy Corner, these are hard to find in good condition because they are very thin.	This is an example of 2 Excelsior Soda works Bottles, this soda company was from Hilo Hawaii. Most of the bottles from this company are not uncommon at all. These are the older soda bottles sometimes called blob tops but they are not true blob tops they are Hutchison tops.
This is a nice Macfarlane & Co. Honolulu Whiskey bottle, this is a Hawaii dug bottle from the 1890's, hard to find, notice the applied top in the next picture.	This is a close up of the applied top to the Macfarlane whiskey bottle	This is a close up of the Macfarlane whiskey bottle.
This is a Gin from England that was dug in Hawaii, it is a Ploopuyt and Co. Distillers, Schiedam.	This is a Hoffschlaeger gin from Honolulu.	This is a close up of the Hoffschlaeger gin bottle.
This is some Black Glass bottles from the late 1800s you can find these in Hawaii too.	I have been digging bottles in Hawaii for over 20 years and I have hundreds of bottles, this is a bunch that still need cleaning.	This is a group of tooled beer bottles from around the late 1890s, they come in a lot of different colors, these came out of a hole we dug a few years ago, we also found 6 Hawaiian blob top sodas, that was a good dig.
This is a large Serrao gin bottle, the small Serrao gins are rare and hard to find but the large Sarrao gin is very hard to find.	This is another picture of the large Serrao gin.	This is the small Serrao gin bottle, the green one is a bit harder to find than the clear one.
This is a tin cup we found while digging for old bottles. A friend of mine was able to find out for me that the symbol on this tin cup means "Kome" and stands for "uncooked rice" , it looks like they used this cup to measure the rice. Thanks for your help Alton.	This is a ultra rare milk glass oriental bottle, this bottle has kanji on 2 sides. This is the first and only time I have seen one of these bottles. This bottle is 8 cm tall and 3 cm in diameter.	This is 2 oriental bottles full of kanji writing, this comes in cobalt and amber colors, these are also very rare and hard to find. These bottles are 5.5 cm tall and 3.5 cm in diameter.
This is a nice squat cylinder, cobalt blue oriental medicine bottle, this is a rare size and is hard to find in Hawaii.	This is a nice green oriental bottle, the 2 kanji characters on this bottle says God medicine. This bottle is also rare and hard to find, mostly because of the color.	Here is 3 rare cobalt blue carrot juice bottles, these are very rare and hard to find. A lot of people call these carrot juice bottles, there are different hospitals and doctors that medicine and juice (mostly apple and carrot juice) these were made in different sizes for the patients of the hospital or doctor, they were an easy way for the patients to get the nutrients and medicine they needed when they were sick. The embossing on this is 姪之浜早船薬局 and it translates to Nephew of Bangzaochuanyao Bureau. These bottles are 11 cm tall and 4.5 cm in diameter.
This is a very nice Shin Yaku cobalt blue bottle.	Here is a nice green jar with Kanji on it.	This is a nice Japanese jar, with Kanji on it.
Here is a nice Japanese bottle, nice amber color.	Here is another nice amber Japanese bottle.	Here is a very ultra rare Japanese cobalt blue bottle.
This is a nice cobalt blue Medicine bottle, on one side the embossing is イボコロリ and translates to wart off, the other side has 横山製薬, and it translates to pharmaceutical Yokoyama. This one is rare and hard to find. This bottle is 5 cm tall and 1.5 cm wide	Here is a nice cobalt blue menicine bottle, on one side the embossing is 棚橋薬行 this translates to Tanahashi medicine line and on the other side there is ピューア.水 and it translates to Pyua water , this company made different versions of this bottle, the cobalt version is the hardest to get. This bottle is 8 cm tall and 3 cm wide	This is a nice cobalt blue medicine bottle, the embossing is 美顔水 and it translates to facial water. This one in not rare but it is not common either.
This is a nice cobalt blue Japanese medicine bottle, this was dug in Hawaii, I got this from a fellow bottle digger. This bottle is 3.25 inches tall and 1.5 inches in diameter.