This was an interesting find for me. I didn’t think this was a really great find at the time of discovery, and it went into my general ‘goodie’ bag during my dive. Typically, when I know I found something really good, I will bring it straight to the surface, to make sure it is safe, and doesn’t endure further damage. This bottle, for some reason, was different at the time.

After cleaning it up at home, I realized it had some nice color! I quickly looked it up, and posted it to a bottle forum, and then learned that it was actually a fairly rare bottle! With the scratches it had around the neck, it didn’t bring in as much as I had hoped, but the buyer was a friend and future repeat buyer.

It was funny, because I actually saw this same guy at the Coventry Bottle Show, and he had the Yale bottle there with him, and handed it off to a professional cleaner to have the bottle tumbled. Where is it now? I am not sure if he still has it in his collection, or if he sold it for a pretty penny after it was tumbled. One of the neat mysteries about this hobby!