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interest in milk bottles and let him
rummage through some boxes in
search of milk bottles as well as
giving him bottles from his
Avondale Farm.
“Why I saw the bottles
advertising Jersey milk and
Jersey cream the bug
started again. ff
“When I saw the bottles ad
vertising Jersey milk and Jersey
cream the bug started again,’’
Arvid notes.
His collection advanced after he
read an article in Lancaster
Farming on Ralph DeVillars from
Kane. DeVillars, the eastern
writer for a milk bottle magazine
located in California, was a full
time collector. After a visit to
Kane, Arvid returned home with a
couple of boxes of milk bottles.
He describes DeVillars and John
Tutton as the two people who have
helped him the most with his
collection. “They put me on to
enjoying the bottles’ styles and
designs,” Arvid said.
Due to the large number of
bottles available, Arvid narrow his
collection on Ayrshire dairies.
“The love of the Ayrshire cow
swayed me to mainly collect milk
bottles from Ayrshire dairies,” he
explained. He is especially in
terested in Ayrshire dairies from
Pennsylvania.
He also collects hard to get breed
bottles such as Holstein, Brown
Swiss and Milking Shorthorn. His
collection includes 14 Holstein
dairies, 12 Brown Swiss dairies and
one Milking Shorthorn dairy. “The
Milking Shorthorn dairy was next
to impossible,” he said.
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He notes he just missed a bottle
from a Dutch Belted dairy in
Florida earlier this year.
To trace bottles he will attend
milk bottle shows, advertise or
lode up locations of farms in old
Digests and plan a vacation in that
area.
“I love crawling through old
milk houses and sheds to see what I
can find,” Arvid explained. Many
times, however, he finds houses or
stores setting where the barns once
stood.
One of his hunts turned up boxes
of bottles, a model Ayrshire cow
from the 1940 s and a showbox full of
old Digests.
“Every time I think I have all
the possible bottles, another one
turns up,” Arvid said. He ex
plained that many dairies either
didn’t advertise, were small, or
didn’t specify their milk as Ayr
shire milk.
He is especially interested in
collecting bottles from Ayrshire
dairies in Pennsylvania. Arvid
knows of 29 Pennsylvania Ayrshire
dairies that retailed milk. His
collection has a representative
bottle from 23 of these dairies, he
noted. “I’m always interested in
learning of and collecting bottles
from the surrounding area,” Arvid
said.
This passion nearly caused him
to kill members of his family in
September, he jokes. While
cleaning they accidently threw
three bottles in the burner. He was
able to salvage the Spruce ViUa
bottle from Milt Brubaker’s
Ayrshire farm in Lititz. Knowing
he would never get another one,
Arvid scrub the pieces and
superglued them back together.
His collecting fever has also
infected his family. Last year his
daughters, Kristie and Michele,
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This display of milk bottles show some of the variety of glassware Arvid has collected
requested Ayrshire milk bottles on
their Christinas list, (Santa Claus
delivered,) and his wife, Kathy,
collects the half ounce and three
fourths ounce coffee creamers.
“I like to refer to my collection
as my retirement income, if and
when I ever retire from farming,”
Arvid said. He admits that selling
the collection would be difficult
and suggests other options as
handing the collection to his
children or donating it to a
museum. That is if he ever decides
to stop collecting.
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Arvid describes his love for the
Ayrshire cow and milk bottle
collecting as consuming passions.
He notes, “The bottles come before
my wife and after the kids; the
cows come before my wife
maybe.”
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