"Thirty years ago (or so), I went to the Albuquerque flea market and saw one old unmarked quart bottle that I liked- and I bought it. Several weeks later, I thought I needed a pint and a half-pint to go with that quart bottle to make a set. Thus, I started collecting milk bottles.

Those three were the last unmarked bottles that I ever bought.

Little did I know as I set out collecting that one of my grandfathers purchased milk in a small Kansas town for a dairy in Kansas City, and when my father was a little boy, he would help his father test the cream content of the milk (which affected how much they would be paid for their milk).

Nearly 1000 bottles later, I still experience joy when I see a nice condition milk bottle."

Background

A mechanical engineer, I spent 40 years at Sandia Labs in Albuquerque working on, among other things, satellites (which explains what I am holding in my left hand in the carving in the accompanying picture). Now retired, I am enjoying getting reacquainted with my bottle collection through this website, which my son built for me.