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Friday - An absolute heartbreaker, but I'll make do - 7/2/2006 1:51:12 PM    Yooper14 Posts: 313 Joined: 4/25/2005 From: Ohio Status: offline These are my finds from Friday.  I'm finally in an exciting part of the dump.  Being an old boarding school dump, I find TONS of food jars and lipsticks and shoe polish and average inks, but not much else. But this dump seam I'm in has some older stuff, and different. Well, I found a soda way in the base layer, buried real solid in the clay.  It turns out to be a slug-plate local soda, one I'd never seen.  I had found one other (much bigger) busted in an old house I was sifting.  I was really excited, but I looked down and saw the lip lying 3 inches from the neck.  I was devastated.  I thought I had done it.  But on closer examination, I see there's rust and stains inside the break, which would not be the case if I had just broke it.  Anyhow, I glued it back on...I'm still gonna display it! The other finds are. Left to right: A little "Great Seal" flask.  I have a number of them, but there are so many varieties it's fun to collect. A "Lantern Candy" without the top or bottom (see "What is it" post) A larger Cheseborough Vaseline than I normally find My first clay Budda! A "Hand Med Co Philadelphia" - new to me A little "HindsHoney and Almond" sampler.  I like these samplers, cause they're embossed on all sides. A brass gas fixture - I have quite an assorted collection of these valves.  Very ornate The slug-plate soda An eyeglass lens and a little brass frame A great shoe polish, caled "gilt dressing" - in researching this, I think it was capsoda who had one on herer a while back.... A half-globe of glass.  Was this a magnifier?  It's not busted A five cent universal store milk An ink (I think) with the glass stopper totally welded to it And a many-sided aqua carbona.  I hear these carbonas are common? Attachment (1) _____________________________ "Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." - Shaw Yooper Post #: 1

RE: Friday - An absolute heartbreaker, but I'll make do - 7/2/2006 1:53:52 PM    Yooper14 Posts: 313 Joined: 4/25/2005 From: Ohio Status: offline Here's a close up of the soda.  I like it especialy since it says it's not for sale!  Guess I could never sell it, eh? Attachment (1) < Message edited by Yooper14 -- 7/2/2006 1:57:22 PM > _____________________________ "Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." - Shaw Yooper (in reply to Yooper14) Post #: 2

RE: Friday - An absolute heartbreaker, but I'll make do - 7/2/2006 1:59:28 PM    Yooper14 Posts: 313 Joined: 4/25/2005 From: Ohio Status: offline And here's a closer lok at the ladies shoe polish.  Neat bottle! Thanks you all for looking.  I'm planning to go out today in just a few minutes.  I'll try to get some dump pictures this time Attachment (1) _____________________________ "Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." - Shaw Yooper (in reply to Yooper14) Post #: 3

RE: Friday - An absolute heartbreaker, but I'll make do - 7/2/2006 3:20:47 PM    capsoda Posts: 7930 Joined: 11/15/2005 From: Seminole,Alabama, USA Status: online Hey Tim, Great lookin finds. Steve Gurley {CaretakerMaine}had the Gilt Edge bottle. The globe glass thing is a watch crystal. Cool candy too. _____________________________ Warren Diggin down in Dixie, USA Work is for people who don't dig bottles President, Panhandle Cruisers http://www.panhandlecruisers.org/ (in reply to Yooper14) Post #: 4

RE: Friday - An absolute heartbreaker, but I'll make do - 7/2/2006 3:42:55 PM    Jim Posts: 2434 Joined: 7/5/2005 From: Lewistown, PA Status: online Nice finds, Tim. The shoe polish is a beauty. Slug sodas are always a treat as well, especially a rare one. Jim _____________________________ Preserving our buried history, one pit at a time. http://www.freewebs.com/lewistownbottles/index.htm (in reply to capsoda) Post #: 5

RE: Friday - An absolute heartbreaker, but I'll make do - 7/2/2006 5:53:52 PM    BOTLDGR03   Posts: 284 Joined: 9/27/2005 From: Midlothian, Texas Status: offline Sweet dig!!! Never dug a whole candy container before. Those brass and copper frames are fun to find. I have found lots of those. Some are very ornate. Found one Friday that had the stick pin still attached. The slugplate still looks good even after a glue job. Keep digging that dump. Probably plenty of coins being a school dump. Robert _____________________________ Have faith and patience and you will find what you've been looking for. R.C. (in reply to Yooper14) Post #: 6

RE: Friday - An absolute heartbreaker, but I'll make do - 7/2/2006 6:01:10 PM    Yooper14 Posts: 313 Joined: 4/25/2005 From: Ohio Status: offline Ive been on  a coin drought, but there are some in there. I've found a couple half dollars and a pocketfull of pennies.  I've been putting the dirt aside that I want to sift later for marbles, pennies, etc. It's been a good dump Tim _____________________________ "Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." - Shaw Yooper (in reply to BOTLDGR03) Post #: 7

RE: Friday - An absolute heartbreaker, but I'll make do - 7/2/2006 8:14:21 PM    dirtflicker Posts: 938 Joined: 9/19/2005 Status: offline Now those are some SWEET DIGS! Love that Shoe Polish...very ornate. DF _____________________________ (in reply to Yooper14) Post #: 8

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