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Farm Dump Found - 2/15/2006 11:52:30 PM    BRichardson5   Posts: 378 Joined: 8/29/2003 From: Pacific Northwest Status: online This past weekend I was able to get permission to dig on a farm that once had a home built around the turn of the century on it. For this area (Western Washington), thats about the oldest age you an get anymore. The people were extremely nice and even pointed me to a rock pile near the back of their farm to start looking. Knowing that farmers often times dumped their bottles in the same spot that they dumped the rocks that the plow pulled up, I went to that spot and was quickly able to locate the dump next to it. The picture shows the rock pile- a great sign for rural dumps. Attachment (1) Post #: 1

RE: Farm Dump Found - 2/15/2006 11:55:04 PM    BRichardson5   Posts: 378 Joined: 8/29/2003 From: Pacific Northwest Status: online The dump was to the right of it and back a little farther. To the nondigger, it wouldnt look like much, just a patch of ferns and a scraggly tree or two. But below the surface is where the goods are found! Attachment (1) (in reply to BRichardson5) Post #: 2

RE: Farm Dump Found - 2/15/2006 11:58:03 PM    BRichardson5   Posts: 378 Joined: 8/29/2003 From: Pacific Northwest Status: online It's always hard for me to determine where to start. I'm unsure of where to put the dirt, because it has to be close enough to fill her back in but far enough away to be sure that I'm not throwing dirt on top of a spot that I want to dig. I put the dirt as close to the rock pile as possible, because any bottles that would have been here would have been demolished. Where I started was rather shallow, maybe a foot deep at most, but the age was right in the late 1800s to 1920's time period. Attachment (1) (in reply to BRichardson5) Post #: 3

RE: Farm Dump Found - 2/16/2006 12:00:50 AM    BRichardson5   Posts: 378 Joined: 8/29/2003 From: Pacific Northwest Status: online Heres the finds of the day- a ton of boyd porcelain caps, some interesting blue utility jars, a blown Glovers Mange Remedy, a mentholatum jar in a nice baby blue color, and other commoners. Not super great stuff but way better than I've been finding. Attachment (1) (in reply to BRichardson5) Post #: 4

RE: Farm Dump Found - 2/16/2006 12:02:23 AM    BRichardson5   Posts: 378 Joined: 8/29/2003 From: Pacific Northwest Status: online Heres the Glovers Imperial Mange Medicine, a vet bottle. I've dug an ABM one that was a Mange Medicine, but this variety has an applied top and the word remedy instead of medicine. Attachment (1) (in reply to BRichardson5) Post #: 5

RE: Farm Dump Found - 2/16/2006 12:04:11 AM    BRichardson5   Posts: 378 Joined: 8/29/2003 From: Pacific Northwest Status: online I got two of these. I thought they were fruit jars at first, but the top has a small short screw top that couldnt have sealed tight enough for fruit. The bases have the O in square, so late teens or twenties for them. Any ideas what they could have held? Attachment (1) (in reply to BRichardson5) Post #: 6

RE: Farm Dump Found - 2/16/2006 12:05:35 AM    BRichardson5   Posts: 378 Joined: 8/29/2003 From: Pacific Northwest Status: online I posted this jar in the What Is It After 1900 area but heres a better picture. As I said before, it has all the dimensions of a typical white milk glass mentholatum jar, except the color is a nice solid baby blue. Attachment (1) (in reply to BRichardson5) Post #: 7

RE: Farm Dump Found - 2/16/2006 2:28:55 AM    madman   Posts: 4862 Joined: 2/5/2005 Status: offline hey br very nice!! great pix thanks for sharing! thats rock pile is very interesting never saw one of those, rocks taken from the field sweet!! congrats on finding the dump man im jealous!! just dig a hole and fan out, back filling as you go, of course dig as deep as possible, love the bim mange!! also the early machine made owens jar 1905 and the baby blue cream, farm dumps can produce very nice finds BEST OF LUCK MIKE < Message edited by madman -- 2/16/2006 2:32:57 AM > (in reply to BRichardson5) Post #: 8

RE: Farm Dump Found - 2/16/2006 8:18:00 AM    walkingstick Posts: 311 Joined: 1/28/2006 From: World Wide (presently Bemidji, MN Status: offline Minnesota is all rock, no soil ... oh wait, the ground is frozen. _____________________________ Wil Grolsch bottles ... oh yeah, I know them well. They are for bottling homebrew ... aren't they? Photographer, homebrewer and meade maker for barter purposes (in reply to BRichardson5) Post #: 9

RE: Farm Dump Found - 2/16/2006 11:44:38 AM    bttlmark   Posts: 402 Joined: 11/23/2005 From: N.E. Florida Status: offline You will have to add a pick to your diggin' tools, It's a little tougher than sand & roots.... (in reply to BRichardson5) Post #: 10

RE: Farm Dump Found - 2/16/2006 7:34:37 PM    portland med. man   Posts: 301 Joined: 2/25/2005 Status: offline look under the rock pile i`ve found some great old stuff under rock piles in the day they would dig a hole or use a shalloew depresion and dump there trash in it then they would cover the dump up with field rocks , so that the farm animals wont step on the broken glass and metal and get hurt... (in reply to BRichardson5) Post #: 11

RE: Farm Dump Found - 2/16/2006 10:36:36 PM    BRichardson5   Posts: 378 Joined: 8/29/2003 From: Pacific Northwest Status: online I like the idea of digging under the pile- that would make a lot of sense to dump all the rock on top of the glass. Hopefully when that was done the bottles werent busted too bad. There are a ton of rocks in this dump even away from the pile, and alot of nice bottles are smashed to oblivion. (in reply to BRichardson5) Post #: 12

RE: Farm Dump Found - 2/17/2006 5:58:13 AM    dirtflicker Posts: 938 Joined: 9/19/2005 Status: offline nice digs and photos (in reply to BRichardson5) Post #: 13

RE: Farm Dump Found - 2/17/2006 6:44:54 AM    Willman669   Posts: 158 Joined: 12/30/2005 From: nsw australia Status: offline I'd say by the look of the size of the dump in the pic there would be a lot more bottles under the rocks. That dumps looks tiny compared to the farm dump i dug up. (in reply to BRichardson5) Post #: 14

RE: Farm Dump Found - 2/19/2006 5:14:52 PM    portland med. man   Posts: 301 Joined: 2/25/2005 Status: offline i found this killer oil lamp in the bottom of a rock pile it was surrounded by boulders could believe it least in a rock pile you dont have to shovel any dirt just watch out cause poison ivy loves to grow in rock piles http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v631/nitro04106/100_1992.jpg (in reply to BRichardson5) Post #: 15

RE: Farm Dump Found - 2/21/2006 10:46:49 AM    Yooper14 Posts: 313 Joined: 4/25/2005 From: Ohio Status: offline I recently found the same mange bottle here in Ohio at a turn of the century dump. It's been sitting outside my garage all winter though, because it still had some of the contents in it. I took a quick smell at the lid of the jar and I de-manged my brain! That stuff is POTENT!! So it's airing out for a few months!!! Neat bottle. Thanks for the dump pictures...always fun to see pics of other sites. Yooper _____________________________ "Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." - Shaw Yooper (in reply to BRichardson5) Post #: 16

RE: Farm Dump Found - 2/23/2006 9:02:37 AM    bottleslayer   Posts: 6 Joined: 2/22/2006 Status: offline Nice pic. I love pic. of dirty old bottles reminds me of what I'am goin to do after this freaken snow goes a way. (in reply to BRichardson5) Post #: 17

RE: Farm Dump Found - 4/8/2006 4:13:07 PM    swizzle   Posts: 1325 Joined: 3/2/2005 From: Upstate NY Status: offline Talk about reviving an old post. I just bought a glover's imperial mange medicine at a garage sale. It wasn't for animal's, it was for people with hair and scalp problem's. Weird. Anyone have a value on this bottle? Jason (in reply to BRichardson5) Post #: 18

RE: Farm Dump Found - 4/8/2006 4:43:51 PM    bearswede Posts: 2910 Joined: 9/28/2004 From: western mass Status: offline quote: Talk about reviving an old post. I just bought a glover's imperial mange medicine at a garage sale. It wasn't for animal's, it was for people with hair and scalp problem's. Check out this post...Especially, the link to info on Dr. Glover's business... It was all vet products, until around early to mid 20th century when human hair products were produced, just before the business was sold... Ron http://www.antique-bottles.net/forum/m_51055/mpage_1/key_glovers%252Cimperial/anchor/tm.htm#51080 _____________________________ "I LOVE Wolfies!!!!!!!!!!!!" (in reply to swizzle) Post #: 19

RE: Farm Dump Found - 4/8/2006 8:37:58 PM    ehkahk   Posts: 84 Joined: 1/29/2006 Status: offline Nice find :) Any idea on the age of the mentholatum jar? I found one last weekend but its white and has mentholatum on the bottom. (in reply to BRichardson5) Post #: 20

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