Lordbud
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Joined: 6/16/2005 From: San Jose Status: offline
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The most expensive bottle I ever personally dug was from a 1850s/1860s creekbank dump next to an old stage stop. Western blown; early 1860s deep green aqua; embossed on all four sides: Horse Liniment Wm. A. Clark For Man And Beast S.F. Cal. Chamfered corners, sunken panels, a beautiful applied ring lip, a "double strike", bubbles throughout the glass. About an inch away from the Horse Liniment was a black glass beer, with two large old chips out of the base but it still stands up fine. The last bottles that came out of that dump until I dug it out. This was 1975-76 over the course of almost a year of digging. The first bottle out of the bank was a Hall's Sarsaparilla, two inches under the surface of the first swipe.
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