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Dowtown Digging - 6/24/2007 10:51:41 PM    zanes_antiques Posts: 2238 Joined: 9/3/2006 From: Steubenville, Ohio Status: offline    My brother and I got out today and hit a privy. We found our mark driving an alley looking for sunken concrete Garage Slabs.   We dug 6-8 feet before hitting a broken "Bunker Hill" pickle jar in amber. Then a little broken china and pottery. We dug up an "I. Joseph / Pittsburgh Pa." Beer, missing its blob. First intact piece dug was a quart sized Brown and White Jug. Nice oddball size to dig. Then When I was in the hole I noticed a familiar bottle. One I had dug last fall that I understand to be scarce. Professor E.H. Crane, Excelsior Preservative, Kalamazoo, Mich. Last thing we dug was a Prof. Low's Magnetic Liniment From Philly.   Here's a few photos of my take. http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s49/zanes_antiques/todaysdigs.jpg http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s49/zanes_antiques/magnetic2.jpg http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s49/zanes_antiques/magnetic1.jpg _____________________________ I buy, sell, barter, and beg....Zane Post #: 1

RE: Dowtown Digging - 6/25/2007 5:46:27 AM    RICKJJ59W Posts: 11897 Joined: 3/8/2007 From: Lehigh Valley US of A Status: offline That's cool you dig with your brother Zane, nice, I hope your bigger then him so you can  beat his azz for that 50 grand bottle!that pops up bhahahaha!!!  nice dig, i just dug one of those Magnetic's on our last dig. Rick _____________________________ My web site. Lots of privy and dump dig pictures. Also dig story's I had published in Antique Bottle & Glass Collector magazine and Western & Eastern Treasure's www.19thcenturybottlediggers.com (in reply to zanes_antiques) Post #: 2

RE: Dowtown Digging - 6/25/2007 6:24:34 AM    zanes_antiques Posts: 2238 Joined: 9/3/2006 From: Steubenville, Ohio Status: offline My brother also posts on this site. He'll be adding to this thread I hope. I thought I heard him snap a few photos with his cell phone. _____________________________ I buy, sell, barter, and beg....Zane (in reply to RICKJJ59W) Post #: 3

RE: Dowtown Digging - 6/25/2007 9:38:00 PM    craigc90 Posts: 865 Joined: 8/17/2004 From: Bloomingdale Ohio Status: offline This was the only picture that came out. This was Zane starting to open up the hole. We ended up about 10 foot deep and it caved in we redug it and then a local gentleman  informed us we were in the hood and that the brothers didn't want us around and  I was hot and tired and not wanting to be killed so I quit a little before it was completely mopped up but I probed around and couldn't feel anymore glass it was a rough dig like usual. When me and Zane dig together we have very bad luck but we do good when we dig with someone else.  We are due for a good dig together.  Here is the picture and when I get a picture of the bottle I brought home for my sons collection I will post it. Attachment (1) (in reply to zanes_antiques) Post #: 4

RE: Dowtown Digging - 6/25/2007 9:49:43 PM    madman Posts: 10364 Joined: 2/5/2005 Status: offline hey zane that pic of the area is cool as hell dude man nice! (in reply to craigc90) Post #: 5

RE: Dowtown Digging - 6/25/2007 10:39:24 PM    RICKJJ59W Posts: 11897 Joined: 3/8/2007 From: Lehigh Valley US of A Status: offline You guys need to take a lot of pix in the places you dig, so I can look at them and feel  good about  no gun fire over our pits  hahahaha! we dug an alley pit a while back but it looked like Mr. Rogers HOOD  lol I added pix to  my photo link woohh  we have to watch out for gangsters  Rick _____________________________ My web site. Lots of privy and dump dig pictures. Also dig story's I had published in Antique Bottle & Glass Collector magazine and Western & Eastern Treasure's www.19thcenturybottlediggers.com (in reply to craigc90) Post #: 6

RE: Dowtown Digging - 6/25/2007 10:40:01 PM    craigc90 Posts: 865 Joined: 8/17/2004 From: Bloomingdale Ohio Status: offline This was the only bottle I brought home it is and excelsior preservative and is embossed poison around the neck. I have narrowed my collecting to just local bottles and colored squats. I give the good meds and other stuff to my 9 year old son he has a very nice collection started and with the help of me and his uncle Zane he has a small poison collection started here are a few pictures. Attachment (1) (in reply to madman) Post #: 7

RE: Dowtown Digging - 6/25/2007 10:43:09 PM    craigc90 Posts: 865 Joined: 8/17/2004 From: Bloomingdale Ohio Status: offline These are his poisons Attachment (1) (in reply to craigc90) Post #: 8

RE: Dowtown Digging - 6/25/2007 11:23:42 PM    capsoda Posts: 9832 Joined: 11/15/2005 From: Seminole,Alabama, USA Status: offline We dug so long in a crack house neighborhood that when the rainy season came and went (about a month and a half) we returned and everyone came over to make sure we were all ok. You can be adopted in some neighborhoods as long as bodies havent been buried around. _____________________________ Warren Diggin down in Dixie, USA Work is for people who don't dig bottles President, Panhandle Cruisers http://www.panhandlecruisers.org/ http://www.bornagainamerican.org (in reply to craigc90) Post #: 9

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