Old bottles contain plenty of appeal for collectors at Canterbury auction house

Forty years after he began identifying Victorian rubbish heaps then digging in them, a Kent collector’s faith in the saying ‘where there’s muck there’s glass’ was vindicated when fellow enthusiasts demolished estimates on scores of his old bottles.

Over the decades, the collector had graduated from digging to trading. He had been a regular at Ca…

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