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Got another beauty-day 2 - 10/9/2008 8:29:07 AM    downeastdigger Posts: 1409 Joined: 8/22/2005 From: Crawling through the mud and briars of Eliot Maine Status: offline As a caterer, I sometimes cater weddings at people's homes, and I have to do a site visit. We got a call for a job up about an hour north of here in the NH hills. Normally, I would say no, but then I got to thinking, hmm, I could get my paperwork done early, go do the site visit by noon, and " take my time" getting back home. Sounds like a plan. On the way back, I changed into my diggin clothes on the side of the road. I just kept drove til I found an old road, and turn off on to another old one, and finally on to a dirt road off of that. These were all early roads, winding through the hills, with old growth trees dotting the roadside, and rock walls along the roadside for miles at a time. I found one spot where I could tell there would have been a dwelling back decades ago, as there were two big oaks up front, and high field of new growth, mostly wild cherries and sumacs. I crossed the field to the back, where as you would expect there was a rock wall. The scene looked exactly like the scene in Shawshank Redemption, where Morgan Freeman is walking through a field, up a hill, to a rock wall, to find what his friend Andy had hidden in the rocks. ( if you've ever seen that movie). Anyways, after about 20 minutes, I found a dump. It was undug, and mostly new ( 1930 ). Mixed in, I found the shards to a Stoddard Chesnut flask, and also this bottle which I couldn't identify til I got home. It would have been a Langleys Root and Herb Bitters, with a big open pontil. Attachment (1) < Message edited by downeastdigger -- 10/10/2008 8:28:33 PM > _____________________________ Bram Get busy diggin, or get busy dyin' http://www.GreatBayCatering.com Post #: 1

RE: Got one beauty (so far) - 10/9/2008 8:34:27 AM    downeastdigger Posts: 1409 Joined: 8/22/2005 From: Crawling through the mud and briars of Eliot Maine Status: offline I figured that since someone had pontil era trash on this property, there must be another dumping area. I walked further down the wall, and came apon a pile of a couple thousand early red bricks. There was broken glass in spots. The area was about 30 feet long by 6 feet wide, and about 2 or 3 bricks deep. I figured it was like a rock pile dump, which can be agonizing to dig, as everything is smashed, and you hope there is a nice ink in there that somehow survived in between the rocks. This turned out to be a much better situation. It appears that there was a trash dump, maybe with wood, food , cans, pig guts, etc, and then the bricks were dumped on top to hide the trash. I pulled back some bricks, and right away there were clear, unembossed bottles coming out, almost stacked. Nothing embossed. Then I pulled out this, thinking it was another brick! Attachment (1) _____________________________ Bram Get busy diggin, or get busy dyin' http://www.GreatBayCatering.com (in reply to downeastdigger) Post #: 2

RE: Got one beauty (so far) - 10/9/2008 8:35:28 AM    downeastdigger Posts: 1409 Joined: 8/22/2005 From: Crawling through the mud and briars of Eliot Maine Status: offline it was an early Stoddard Townsends Sarsaparilla. Definately the closest I've come to digging a whole one Attachment (1) _____________________________ Bram Get busy diggin, or get busy dyin' http://www.GreatBayCatering.com (in reply to downeastdigger) Post #: 3

RE: Got one beauty (so far) - 10/9/2008 8:36:08 AM    downeastdigger Posts: 1409 Joined: 8/22/2005 From: Crawling through the mud and briars of Eliot Maine Status: offline what a beauty Attachment (1) _____________________________ Bram Get busy diggin, or get busy dyin' http://www.GreatBayCatering.com (in reply to downeastdigger) Post #: 4

RE: Got one beauty (so far) - 10/9/2008 8:38:26 AM    downeastdigger Posts: 1409 Joined: 8/22/2005 From: Crawling through the mud and briars of Eliot Maine Status: offline Then I pulled out this little shard. I searched for any other pieces, but could find one yet. It may look insignificant, but I believe this was a piece of early New England Glass. It appears to have been a thin cylinder shaped bottle, with embossing running vertically down it. I can just make out the tops of 3 letters. Mike ( Early Glass ) if anyone can ID it , it would be you. I'll show it to you next time I see you. Attachment (1) _____________________________ Bram Get busy diggin, or get busy dyin' http://www.GreatBayCatering.com (in reply to downeastdigger) Post #: 5

RE: Got one beauty (so far) - 10/9/2008 8:39:52 AM    downeastdigger Posts: 1409 Joined: 8/22/2005 From: Crawling through the mud and briars of Eliot Maine Status: offline really thin Attachment (1) _____________________________ Bram Get busy diggin, or get busy dyin' http://www.GreatBayCatering.com (in reply to downeastdigger) Post #: 6

RE: Got one beauty (so far) - 10/9/2008 8:41:32 AM    downeastdigger Posts: 1409 Joined: 8/22/2005 From: Crawling through the mud and briars of Eliot Maine Status: offline Then I got a whole mint beauty! I am on a wicked good streak this month. I'm not going to question it, I'm just going to enjoy it while it lasts! Attachment (1) _____________________________ Bram Get busy diggin, or get busy dyin' http://www.GreatBayCatering.com (in reply to downeastdigger) Post #: 7

RE: Got one beauty (so far) - 10/9/2008 8:44:28 AM    downeastdigger Posts: 1409 Joined: 8/22/2005 From: Crawling through the mud and briars of Eliot Maine Status: offline It is a pretty rare bottle, I think from Boston. I own one that I bought a few years ago, and paid I think $150 for. I will be selling that one, and keeping my new dug one for my collection. It's embossed BILLINGS CLAPP & SONS / CHEMISTS - PHOSPHOROLE Attachment (1) _____________________________ Bram Get busy diggin, or get busy dyin' http://www.GreatBayCatering.com (in reply to downeastdigger) Post #: 8

RE: Got one beauty (so far) - 10/9/2008 8:45:47 AM    downeastdigger Posts: 1409 Joined: 8/22/2005 From: Crawling through the mud and briars of Eliot Maine Status: offline I know Otis Clapp was out of Boston, I'm not sure if Billings Clapp is from Boston Attachment (1) _____________________________ Bram Get busy diggin, or get busy dyin' http://www.GreatBayCatering.com (in reply to downeastdigger) Post #: 9

RE: Got one beauty (so far) - 10/9/2008 8:46:26 AM    downeastdigger Posts: 1409 Joined: 8/22/2005 From: Crawling through the mud and briars of Eliot Maine Status: offline early square base Attachment (1) _____________________________ Bram Get busy diggin, or get busy dyin' http://www.GreatBayCatering.com (in reply to downeastdigger) Post #: 10

RE: Got one beauty (so far) - 10/9/2008 8:52:20 AM    downeastdigger Posts: 1409 Joined: 8/22/2005 From: Crawling through the mud and briars of Eliot Maine Status: offline Chuck and I dug a couple of new dumps last weeks and got some good stuff. One was from behind a house that a Dr. lived in around 1890, and we got a bunch of cool pharmecutical stuff, lots of bottles with stoppers, several clear druggist with street addresses from NY city, like the guy had sent away for meds to use in his own concoctions. Also a rusted stethescope, thermometers, graduated cylinders, really different stuff. We wound up giving the home owner a lot of the Dr. related stuff ( it was a permission dig that Chuck got ). So we have a lot more pictures to come if you guys want to see them. Just between work and digging and family, taking pictures and posting them is hard to squeeze in. I aint complainin! I've gone long long stretches where I've dug and not found a thing. So don't think it's like this all the time. Guys who know me know I've put in my dues :) Good luck diggin! Attachment (1) _____________________________ Bram Get busy diggin, or get busy dyin' http://www.GreatBayCatering.com (in reply to downeastdigger) Post #: 11

RE: Got one beauty (so far) - 10/9/2008 9:12:50 AM    earlyglass   Posts: 366 Joined: 12/21/2004 Status: offline Great stuff Bram. I'm anxious to see that shard... can you make out any letters?  Mike (in reply to downeastdigger) Post #: 12

RE: Got one beauty (so far) - 10/9/2008 9:16:37 AM    brokenshovel   Posts: 463 Joined: 8/29/2005 From: Westminster Maryland Status: offline Why back so soon?  Should have packed a flashlight and more tools. I'd be getting sick and calling off work for a few days. No one likes explosive diarrhea. < Message edited by brokenshovel -- 10/9/2008 9:17:35 AM > (in reply to downeastdigger) Post #: 13

RE: Got one beauty (so far) - 10/9/2008 9:34:21 AM    downeastdigger Posts: 1409 Joined: 8/22/2005 From: Crawling through the mud and briars of Eliot Maine Status: offline Ha! Trust me, I thought about it. But I'm self employed, so I can't call in sick, plus I gotta to the family duties. My wife lets me dig a TON, so I have to be sure not to take her for granted and be there when I'm supposed to be there. ;) I can't stop thinking about it though, you're right. It is a different sort of dump though, I couldnt really take many random samples of the brick pile while I was there. So I dont know if I hit one lucky pocket, and the rest is all bricks, or if there are other pockets of trash in other spots. I'm glad I got one good one without a scratch though Mike the letters look like RING, like maybe Springs, but I dont think it is a Saratoga. Hopefully I 'll find more shards of it. I can't get up there again til next week :( I have 4 weddings to cater this weekend, so I gotta get my head into my work for a couple of days ( good luck, right? ) _____________________________ Bram Get busy diggin, or get busy dyin' http://www.GreatBayCatering.com (in reply to brokenshovel) Post #: 14

RE: Got one beauty (so far) - 10/9/2008 9:49:52 AM    downeastdigger Posts: 1409 Joined: 8/22/2005 From: Crawling through the mud and briars of Eliot Maine Status: offline I'm supposed to be prepping for a catered lunch today. It's 10 am. I havn't started cooking. What am I doing? Gluing together my Townsends, of course! This is getting bad. It may require an intervention Attachment (1) _____________________________ Bram Get busy diggin, or get busy dyin' http://www.GreatBayCatering.com (in reply to downeastdigger) Post #: 15

RE: Got one beauty (so far) - 10/9/2008 11:30:29 AM    cobaltbot Posts: 1693 Joined: 4/7/2006 From: Delta, PA Status: offline Wow, that is a beauty, and you are on a streak, hope you make some more killer finds!  Enjoy it, like you said, while it last's, and you'll always have those bottles to remind you "how sweet it is".......sometimes!!!   Like you also said it's all about paying dues, being persistant and putting yourself in the right spot....and a little luck can't hurt either!  Can I send you my potato rake fed ex and have you rub it for me < Message edited by cobaltbot -- 10/9/2008 1:16:01 PM > _____________________________ My tombstone will read: He went out for a walk and never came back.... (in reply to downeastdigger) Post #: 16

RE: Got one beauty (so far) - 10/9/2008 3:28:06 PM    baltbottles   Posts: 930 Joined: 11/25/2002 From: Baltimore Maryland Status: offline Nice stuff too bad about that townsands I have yet to dig a whole one of them too. Chris _____________________________ Please visit my website at : www.geocities.com/baltbottles/index.html (in reply to cobaltbot) Post #: 17

RE: Got one beauty (so far) - 10/9/2008 4:11:58 PM    woody   Posts: 1680 Joined: 10/29/2002 From: Gilmanton, New Hampshire Status: offline I've yet to dig a whole Dr. Townsends, too. Last year I dug a teal colored iron pontiled one, but, alas, it was broken, too. _____________________________ Woody (in reply to baltbottles) Post #: 18

RE: Got one beauty (so far) - 10/9/2008 5:15:24 PM    RICKJJ59W Posts: 3670 Joined: 3/8/2007 From: Lehigh Valley US of A Status: offline Nice glue job on The Townsend. If you cross your eyes it looks whole  Great blue Chemists! _____________________________ My Web Page.Lots of pix. Dig story's published in Antique Bottle & Glass Collector. New story added 9/08 www.19thcenturybottlediggers.com Digs in action. http://www.flickr.com/photos/pitpirate/ (in reply to downeastdigger) Post #: 19

RE: Got one beauty (so far) - 10/9/2008 9:08:22 PM    beendiggin Posts: 801 Joined: 6/30/2005 Status: offline Bram, that Billings is so nice looking..I dug a couple of the large aqua ones but didnt know about the blue one. You're having a great year, keep it up! (in reply to downeastdigger) Post #: 20

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