SACRAMENTO (CN) — A dispute over antique "owl drug bottles" has blown up into a federal lawsuit in which a bottle historian claims he was defamed by a vindictive competitor. Jeffrey Wichmann founded ...

Taking shots of tequila has taken on new meaning. Elaborate glass tequila bottles in red, blue and white -- shaped like pistols, AK-47s, rifles, machetes and bullets -- have been surfacing in the Rio ...

CRAIG T. KOJIMA / CKOJIMA@STARADVERTISER.COM Mike Leong has been collecting bottles for nearly 25 years. “It’s more about the quest and finding the one that is missing from your collection,” he said.

HICKORY CORNERS — Scott Hendrichsen kept sticking a steel rod in the ground until he found what he was looking for. It was 150-year-old poop. Hendrichsen's hobby is collecting antique glass bottles — ...

Many people would never guess what this strange bottle was used for. Although it is called a "teakettle" by bottle collectors because of its shape, it is an antique ink bottle. A quill pen made from a ...

If you collect bottles, or are interested in bottles, you're not alone! More than three million Americans collect bottles, and the number is increasing. Bottles are America's third most popular ...

Mary Duke has a couple of thousand bottles in his attic. There are more in the house, some on shelves, some stashed in drawers. Many of them came directly out of the damp, dark Houston gumbo along ...

Long before minimalism and refillable spritzers, perfume bottles were works of art. Crystal stoppers, hand-painted glass, and sculpted silhouettes turned fragrance into a luxury display piece-and ...

Arguably, $7,000 is quite a bit to pay for a used and empty Coca-Cola bottle, but Des Moines County’s Jim Sonneville understands the passion — if not the economics — behind such an eye-watering price ...