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Bottles for them, bottles for me - 5/24/2009 1:56:01 AM   
RedGinger


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Status: offline 		I would like to start this thread by thanking Charlie (Cyberdigger) for the bottles he sent me along with the awesome booklet.  When I arrived home from a long day of digging, my bottles were not where I had been looking for them (in the ground).  They were in my own mailbox.  I had a feeling something had come.  What a nice treat!  It was so generous of Charlie and everything was wrapped with such care.

Now on to our dig ( Joe and Tom did very well).  Joe and I met up with Tom this afternoon.  The site was an old barbershop Tom had just sold.  Out front sat a large excavator.  Joe had a key, but thought better of pushing his luck with it.    This is a site Joe and Tom dug nextdoor to, about five years ago.  It was the former site of the Independent Bottling Works of Bradford, PA.

I spotted a few shards next to the building and said, "Let's dig here!"  It was a tight space, but we knew there were lots of bottles to be found.  Children's shoes, a marble, blob necks, black glass, and plenty of shards were soon popping out.  I did the best I could.  None of us wanted to stop, so we took turns.  I let the guys clear out the hole periodically.  I'm just not as strong.  Joe shovels like a gopher, in Tom's words, and Tom is great at lifting those heavy shovelfulls of dirt.  Of course, when the bottles started to come out, I ran back home for the camera and missed the first few.  On to the pics now, and some more info. 

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RE: Bottles for them, bottles for me - 5/24/2009 2:13:21 AM   
JOETHECROW


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From: Northwestern Pa. (Near scenic Lake Perfidy)
Status: offline 		Laur was having trouble logging in...here's a few pics.
Here's a horseradish or pickle w/arched panel coming out.





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RE: Bottles for them, bottles for me - 5/24/2009 2:19:36 AM   
JOETHECROW


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From: Northwestern Pa. (Near scenic Lake Perfidy)
Status: offline 		More pics digging, former barbershop site. We were checking out a 'Carter's extract of smartweed'.




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RE: Bottles for them, bottles for me - 5/24/2009 2:24:26 AM   
JOETHECROW


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Status: offline 		We've only got the long weekend to dig this spot,...after that it becomes a parking lot.




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RE: Bottles for them, bottles for me - 5/24/2009 2:28:04 AM   
JOETHECROW


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Status: offline 		St. Jakobs Oel, coming out bottom first....




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RE: Bottles for them, bottles for me - 5/24/2009 2:31:14 AM   
JOETHECROW


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From: Northwestern Pa. (Near scenic Lake Perfidy)
Status: offline 		Some real old shards of rare bottles, some local.




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RE: Bottles for them, bottles for me - 5/24/2009 2:35:07 AM   
JOETHECROW


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From: Northwestern Pa. (Near scenic Lake Perfidy)
Status: offline 		Some more teasers...




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RE: Bottles for them, bottles for me - 5/24/2009 2:40:49 AM   
JOETHECROW


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From: Northwestern Pa. (Near scenic Lake Perfidy)
Status: offline 		Tom and Joe taking a break...(Crow-mobile at right)




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RE: Bottles for them, bottles for me - 5/24/2009 2:44:00 AM   
JOETHECROW


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Status: offline 		Laur with Jakob's bottle.




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RE: Bottles for them, bottles for me - 5/24/2009 2:49:16 AM   
JOETHECROW


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From: Northwestern Pa. (Near scenic Lake Perfidy)
Status: offline 		We had to call it a day, but we're going back tommorow too, possibly Monday as well...We're hoping the operator for the excavator has some free time to help us out...since this is a permission dig. We took some vids but our computer is too slow to load them. We'll post more as we dig more. Thanks everybody for sharing our dig,...                            Joe, Laur and Tom.(Penn Digger)

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RE: Bottles for them, bottles for me - 5/24/2009 2:56:29 AM   
JOETHECROW


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From: Northwestern Pa. (Near scenic Lake Perfidy)
Status: offline 		A couple of the keepers cleaned up.




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In the woods we return to reason and faith.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooTyuRd9zSg&feature=related




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RE: Bottles for them, bottles for me - 5/24/2009 3:08:54 AM   
JOETHECROW


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In the woods we return to reason and faith.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooTyuRd9zSg&feature=related




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RE: Bottles for them, bottles for me - 5/24/2009 4:18:25 AM   
glass man


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From: GEORGIA
Status: offline 		THANKS. JAMIE

< Message edited by glass man -- 5/24/2009 5:36:32 AM >

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RE: Bottles for them, bottles for me - 5/24/2009 6:28:37 AM   
RICKJJ59W


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From: Lehigh Valley US of A
Status: offline 		You guys better dig like hell to beat the blacktop man I love the smart weed bottle.I can recall having some of that "smart weed" back in the day,I always thought it made me smarter,but we all know better.

We are into a brick liner,but it doesn't look to promising.New at 11 eaither way.

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RE: Bottles for them, bottles for me - 5/24/2009 11:24:36 AM   
RedGinger


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Status: offline 		Thanks for your comments guys.  Are there many variants of the Smartweed?  Joe had another one that is a mint/apple color, different embossing, different mold.  I think I like this one better, but it's hard to pick.  Can barely type/walk today.
We think the whole area is dump. 

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RE: Bottles for them, bottles for me - 5/24/2009 11:52:33 AM   
CanYaDigIt


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From: Back In Sac, CA
Status: offline 		Hey Laur,
Here's a nice pontiled smart weed I've had my eye on for a few days. Price got to high for me, but man it's nice.
http://cgi.ebay.com/CARTERS-SMART-WEED-Open-Pontil-medicine-bottle_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQcategoryZ895QQitemZ260411743767QQsalenotsupported

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RE: Bottles for them, bottles for me - 5/24/2009 12:12:19 PM   
RedGinger


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Status: offline 		That's beautiful!  Thanks for the link.

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RE: Bottles for them, bottles for me - 5/24/2009 12:25:01 PM   
RedGinger


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Status: offline 		Here are the two Smartweeds.  The aqua one was dug yesterday.  The one Joe already had is a later, smooth base variant of the pontiled one on ebay.  It might even be the same mold.  It is very crude. 




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RE: Bottles for them, bottles for me - 5/24/2009 12:25:45 PM   
capsoda


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From: Seminole,Alabama, USA
Status: offline 		Hope you have good luck in any other holes you find. It is nice to dig as a couple. Cindy has been on every dig I did since we have been married.

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RE: Bottles for them, bottles for me - 5/24/2009 4:36:18 PM   
Stardust


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Status: offline 		Thanks for sharing.
looks like sooooo much fun.
i wish you all the best tomorrow.
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