Within glass milk bottle collecting, there is a unique category: college bottles, as Dean Shippy calls them.
Many land-grant universities have their own dairy herds for educational and research purposes, bottling their milk for campus and community consumption. Shippy’s fascination with these bottles led to his collection of over 350 bottles.
The majority of his collection will hit the auction block May 10 for an in-person auction at the Heidlersburg Fire Hall in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania…