How To Clean Antique Glass Bottles
Place a rubber mat or folded tea towel in the bottom of the sink or plastic tub to protect delicate or valuable antique glass.
How to clean antique glass bottles. Rinse the affected glass item off or rinse it out if it is a vessel of some sort such as a vase or bottle. Once youve let the bottles soak for a while dump the vinegar out and then fill the bottle with enough salt to cover around 12 inch of the bottom of the bottle. In the beginning I started bottle collecting in the s and like many other diggers continually.
When done remove bottle and wash the bottle tube and copper. Fill the bottle with water and add a false teeth cleaner such as Polident. It is reprinted with permission.
Extra fine steel wool OOOO can be used with caution. Fill the bottle with a solution of 1 part bleach to 7 parts water and allow it to set for at least 12 hours. Smooth-based embossed private mold and other bottle effects provide insights that may be useful in determining an old glass bottles age.
I pulled out all of my trusty tools for cleaning old bottles. It will also give a better shine on the glass. The key to how to clean old glass bottles is to be quite gentle.
The bottle should appear frosted. Bottle brushes of various sizes small pebbles small lead fishing weights dish detergent not shown and Bar Keepers Friend. I use three buckets for my acid cleaning.
If the bottle only requires some minor cleaning then here are some ways you could do it at home. If the mouth of the glass was large enough I washed the inside with a rag bottle brush too. Rinsing first helps remove the loosest debris and helps keep the water in the sink or plastic tub cleaner.