Antique Bottles, Pot lids, Enamel signs & Advertising items
From digging up old bottles on old refuse sites, ‘mudlarking’ on the Thames in London, buying an old sign at a local auction or car boot sale, having boxes of old pot lids and printed pots in your garage/attic to established collectors specialising in all manner of the above, if you want to glean more information about your item/s, find out possible values and possible historical information you’ve come to the right place
If you want an item identified/valued, just go to our valuation page
AA Auctions
We are Europe’s leading providers of old bottles, pot lids, enamel signs, cream pots, ginger beers, printed stoneware, quack cures, fairy lights, soda syphons, inks, poisons, target balls, flagons, mineral waters, early glass and stoneware, glass fire grenades, old shop packaging, Cornish bottles, whisky jugs, old advertising, sealed wines, ointment pots/pharmacy and much more besides (see photo gallery for literally hundreds of fabulous professional images)
We have many decades of experience and are happy to share our knowledge and expertise with you. Alan Austin has been collecting and digging old bottles since 1976 (and even had a recent 6 minute stint on Bargain Hunt promoting the hobby!). He’s also been a keen bottle digger for over 45 years and has travelled all over the world in search of bottles
Global Auctions
Alan and his team have been running an international online bottle, pot lid and advertising auction since 2015 (AA Auctions) now the biggest of its kind in Europe with a massive worldwide audience and over 500 fabulous lots per auction it’s definitely worth a look.
You can even access past auction catalogues (with full descriptions and prices realised) all for free. Just click on the link on the Auction page
Our collective fields of interest look to have bucked the trend of many others and seem as vibrant now as ever (certainly going by the continued record prices attained in our AA Auctions sales) and we are very proud to be a part of this forward trend