Mike Cavanaugh’s kayak takes him into the Great South Bay, Hewlett Bay and Reynolds Channel, but the antique glass bottles he finds there take him through bygone eras as far back as the 1800s.

Johnny made the leap from dairy to soda bottles and says he’s made a lot of friends in the collecting community.

Joseph Reish doesn’t mind people knowing he loves to turn up bottles – not to drink from mind you, but to collect, buy, sell, trade and track their origin. Since age 8, the Suffolk native has ...

Originally released in 2000, the Buffalo Trace Antique Collection has quickly became a coveted set of bottles for whiskey lovers. Intended to honor the history of the distillery, these expressions ...

Do you ever look at collectors and wonder how they know what’s valuable and what isn’t worth taking home? Collecting antiques ...

Popular folk myth says that if you hold a seashell to your ear you can hear the ocean — when Mark Smith looks into a glass bottle or encounters an old piece of stoneware he sees history. “You can tell ...