Old bottles, new light.
Rescued from Carolina ground and given a second light, each of our bottles carries a bit of history worth keeping. We are pleased to offer antique medicine, soda, milk, ink, and whiskey bottles recovered from old homestead sites across the rural coastal plain of North Carolina.
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Our Story
Second Light Bottle Co. began with Mark & Kathy, who spend their days searching old homestead sites tucked into the rural plains of North Carolina — places where a farmhouse, a country store, or a family home once stood, a hundred years gone. Every bottle arrives caked in good Carolina dirt, and cleaning it by hand is where the real discovery happens: a dirt-crusted shape reveals itself to be a medicine bottle from a rural pharmacy, a milk bottle from a dairy long since closed, or a soda bottle embossed with the name of a town that scarcely exists anymore. It is our pleasure to give each bottle exactly what our name promises — a second light, cleaned up proper, researched with care, and ready for a good home.
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