Green is the oldest bottle color. Long before glassmakers could control pigmentation precisely, local sand and iron-rich minerals produced green glass naturally — which is why the earliest American bottles are almost always some shade of green, from pale aqua to deep forest to near-black olive. The bottles in this collection span that full range, recovered from New York City's historic waterfront where pre-1950s glass has been preserved by the shoreline. Some pieces are utilitarian — early milk and soda bottles in soft aqua — others are deep, richly pigmented specimens from wine, spirits, and bitters production. All are hand-selected and arrive ready to display, style, or use as bud vases.