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Cool Digging Picts - 7/20/2010 8:25:23 PM    Bixby Bill Posts: 342 Joined: 4/24/2009 From: Ellington, CT Status: offline I thought that with the heat everyone is digging in that a couple pictures of cold weather digging might be in order. This was a 3 acre town dump that until several years ago when it was cleared and covered, I had dug at since I was 13. I still remember the looks I used to get riding my ten speed the 5 miles home, dirty as can be, with a shovel and potato hook strapped to one side, and 2 wooden boxes with bottles on the back carrier. It was in a swampy area so the best digging was from June to mid winter, even then you had to dig into the water to reach the bottom! Hope you like them! Attachment (1) _____________________________ Always looking for anything Bixby: bottles, tins, boxes, trade cards, advertising, etc. Been collecting for 33 years and still don`t have enough of them! Also looking for early gas & steam engines, machinery, and Conn. drugstore bottles! Post #: 1

RE: Cool Digging Picts - 7/20/2010 8:28:08 PM    Bixby Bill Posts: 342 Joined: 4/24/2009 From: Ellington, CT Status: offline Parts of a couple amber Willington pickles I found there. I still have a boxful of the pieces I found over a couple of years there, remains of 3 half gallon ones and 2 quarts! I know that is the closest I`ll ever come to owning one. Attachment (1) _____________________________ Always looking for anything Bixby: bottles, tins, boxes, trade cards, advertising, etc. Been collecting for 33 years and still don`t have enough of them! Also looking for early gas & steam engines, machinery, and Conn. drugstore bottles! (in reply to Bixby Bill) Post #: 2

RE: Cool Digging Picts - 7/20/2010 8:43:43 PM    rockbot Posts: 3249 Joined: 6/17/2009 From: Hilo, Hawaii Status: offline Now that is something I never experienced. Very "cool" way to dig bottles.. Rocky _____________________________ " I got my own shovel ready project" (in reply to Bixby Bill) Post #: 3

RE: Cool Digging Picts - 7/20/2010 9:50:05 PM    madman Posts: 10061 Joined: 2/5/2005 Status: offline ahh yes winter digging is the stuff! very nice, got any more pix of the dig finds??>>>>>>>>>> _____________________________ always looking for, Toledo Ohio, Knoxville Tn. milks pharms and sodas, (in reply to rockbot) Post #: 4

RE: Cool Digging Picts - 7/20/2010 9:53:22 PM    JOETHECROW Posts: 9235 Joined: 9/3/2005 From: Northwestern Pa. (Near scenic Lake Perfidy) Status: offline I've participated in that hardcore practice a few times....Had more trouble than I expected to with bottles cracking... _____________________________ Joe ``````````````````````````````````` In the woods we return to reason and faith. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooTyuRd9zSg&feature=related (in reply to madman) Post #: 5

RE: Cool Digging Picts - 7/20/2010 10:57:10 PM    KBbottles Posts: 1403 Joined: 2/24/2010 From: South Brunswick, NJ Status: offline NICE!!! (in reply to JOETHECROW) Post #: 6

RE: Cool Digging Picts - 7/21/2010 1:41:07 AM    druggistnut Posts: 1064 Joined: 1/7/2006 From: Otisville, Michigan Status: offline Winter is actually my favorite time to dig in deeper dumps. Hey Bill- what's a cobalt Bixby's going for these days? Bill _____________________________ Michigan drugstore bottles/dose glasses, jugs, etc... Any paper from Mich drugstores, pre 1900. Michigan hutches. Anything unusual from Michigan, i.e., paper from bottlers, etc... Buy or trade President-Flint, Michigan FOHBC Club (in reply to Bixby Bill) Post #: 7

RE: Cool Digging Picts - 7/21/2010 5:30:18 PM    Bixby Bill Posts: 342 Joined: 4/24/2009 From: Ellington, CT Status: offline Here`s some more pictures for Madman, and as to cobalt Bixby`s, the more common squared ones are going between $150 - $300 each, but I just bought an older tall style in cobalt which I had never even heard of before on eBay for a whole lot more than I wanted to, but I knew I`d never see another one if it disappeared into a collection. OK, it was $510, but don`t tell anyone, they`ll think I was completely crazy! Attachment (1) _____________________________ Always looking for anything Bixby: bottles, tins, boxes, trade cards, advertising, etc. Been collecting for 33 years and still don`t have enough of them! Also looking for early gas & steam engines, machinery, and Conn. drugstore bottles! (in reply to druggistnut) Post #: 8

RE: Cool Digging Picts - 7/21/2010 5:31:23 PM    Bixby Bill Posts: 342 Joined: 4/24/2009 From: Ellington, CT Status: offline Here`s all the amber Willington pickle pieces, real heartbreakers! Attachment (1) _____________________________ Always looking for anything Bixby: bottles, tins, boxes, trade cards, advertising, etc. Been collecting for 33 years and still don`t have enough of them! Also looking for early gas & steam engines, machinery, and Conn. drugstore bottles! (in reply to Bixby Bill) Post #: 9

RE: Cool Digging Picts - 7/21/2010 5:35:14 PM    Bixby Bill Posts: 342 Joined: 4/24/2009 From: Ellington, CT Status: offline This hole wasn`t producing much good keepers until a midget size Crowleytown Mason came out, there was a bad chip on the threads, but who cares about that when you dig it? I traded it to a friend who collects jars, and the next week at the flea market he bought a regular midget mason with the correct lid for the Crowleytown on it! Talk about luck! You might be able to spot the jar towards the front of all the bottles on the bank. Attachment (1) _____________________________ Always looking for anything Bixby: bottles, tins, boxes, trade cards, advertising, etc. Been collecting for 33 years and still don`t have enough of them! Also looking for early gas & steam engines, machinery, and Conn. drugstore bottles! (in reply to Bixby Bill) Post #: 10

RE: Cool Digging Picts - 7/21/2010 5:39:01 PM    Bixby Bill Posts: 342 Joined: 4/24/2009 From: Ellington, CT Status: offline One of my better days there at the older end of the dump. A pint teal Carter`s ink, small mouth 1/2 pint Lightning jar, pint aqua Magic jar, emerald green Russel`s Pepsin Calasaya Bitters (I think), and an embossed umbrella ink, I don`t remember the name, it had one letter in each panel. Attachment (1) _____________________________ Always looking for anything Bixby: bottles, tins, boxes, trade cards, advertising, etc. Been collecting for 33 years and still don`t have enough of them! Also looking for early gas & steam engines, machinery, and Conn. drugstore bottles! (in reply to Bixby Bill) Post #: 11

RE: Cool Digging Picts - 7/21/2010 5:41:17 PM    Bixby Bill Posts: 342 Joined: 4/24/2009 From: Ellington, CT Status: offline One more picture. A friend from the bottle club who was pretty active digging there too. He had found a few Saratogas, Hopkins Bitters, and some other good stuff, but not all on the same day. Attachment (1) _____________________________ Always looking for anything Bixby: bottles, tins, boxes, trade cards, advertising, etc. Been collecting for 33 years and still don`t have enough of them! Also looking for early gas & steam engines, machinery, and Conn. drugstore bottles! (in reply to Bixby Bill) Post #: 12

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