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How Good Are You At ID'ing Shards? - 10/12/2006 12:02:46 PM    swizzle Posts: 3596 Joined: 3/2/2005 From: Upstate NY Status: offline Here's some different shards that I dug that I am curious about. The first 2 go together and I already know what it goes to, but which one? The others I have no clue about. Swizzle Attachment (1) Post #: 1

RE: How Good Are You At ID'ing Shards? - 10/12/2006 12:03:42 PM    swizzle Posts: 3596 Joined: 3/2/2005 From: Upstate NY Status: offline Another pic. Swizzle Attachment (1) (in reply to swizzle) Post #: 2

RE: How Good Are You At ID'ing Shards? - 10/12/2006 12:04:31 PM    swizzle Posts: 3596 Joined: 3/2/2005 From: Upstate NY Status: offline And another. Swizzle Attachment (1) (in reply to swizzle) Post #: 3

RE: How Good Are You At ID'ing Shards? - 10/12/2006 12:37:12 PM    downeastdigger Posts: 3160 Joined: 8/22/2005 From: Crawling through the mud and briars of Eliot Maine Status: offline Hi Swiz, Now you're talkin I'm a big fan of Shard IDing! I have a big collection of colored pontiled shards I've dug over the years, they are fun to collect because I dont have to worry about breaking them. It's hard to tell yours from the photo, but the bottom one in the group photo looks like a Masonic flask. Could the one with the letters be a yellow amber Clark and White mineral water? In April we will be hosting the New England Bottle club show here. I am hoping to have a show display in a side room, displaying the best and rarest shards from my collection , and from anyone who wants to bring them. I'll have them all layed out and labelled what they are and where they were dug. Glad you enjoy the shards as much as me Bram (in reply to swizzle) Post #: 4

RE: How Good Are You At ID'ing Shards? - 10/12/2006 12:41:08 PM    swizzle Posts: 3596 Joined: 3/2/2005 From: Upstate NY Status: offline I'm not sure about that shard. The only 2 shards I've got a positive ID on is the ones in the first pic. I'll give you a clue. It's a horses head and the first time I've ever dug up a horses @$$ and it looks like he's pulling something. Swizzle (in reply to downeastdigger) Post #: 5

RE: How Good Are You At ID'ing Shards? - 10/12/2006 12:50:58 PM    cobaltbot Posts: 3878 Joined: 4/7/2006 From: Delta, PA Status: offline Success to the Railroad flask!  I'd be smiling for months if I dug a mint one of those!  I guess my best shards are from a USA Hosp. Dept bottle. _____________________________ My tombstone will read: He went out for a walk and never came back.... (in reply to swizzle) Post #: 6

RE: How Good Are You At ID'ing Shards? - 10/12/2006 1:00:03 PM    downeastdigger Posts: 3160 Joined: 8/22/2005 From: Crawling through the mud and briars of Eliot Maine Status: offline Wow, a success to the railroad, nice! When I go home tonight (where my camera is) I'll post some of my shards. Hopefully we won't bore everyone else on here, but hey, they can go to the next posting right? I brought home the top neck piece of an olive amber Swaims Panacea last night from digging. Bram (in reply to cobaltbot) Post #: 7

RE: How Good Are You At ID'ing Shards? - 10/12/2006 1:16:18 PM    swizzle Posts: 3596 Joined: 3/2/2005 From: Upstate NY Status: offline I just wish I knew which of the 5 different types of success to the railroad flasks this one is. I'm hoping to find more shards to it.  There's a few acres of shards spread out all over the place. Finding an untouched hole that survived the 1970's diggers will be the real trick. This appears to be very shallow and widely spread out although some of the holes are 6 to 7 feet deep. I will mention that it is in the lower Adirondack region of NY. Anyone close by that might want to help locate a pocket or 2 in the future? I will be going back up again before winter to get some GPS coordinates. If your willing to make the trip PM me and we'll talk about it. Swizzle (in reply to downeastdigger) Post #: 8

RE: How Good Are You At ID'ing Shards? - 10/12/2006 2:56:25 PM    swizzle Posts: 3596 Joined: 3/2/2005 From: Upstate NY Status: offline That one shard might very well be a clark and white's. I just found out that this is the same glass houses that manufacture Saratoga Spring Mineral Water's. WooHoo, Now I'm happy. Swizzle (in reply to swizzle) Post #: 9

RE: How Good Are You At ID'ing Shards? - 10/22/2006 5:33:03 PM    swizzle Posts: 3596 Joined: 3/2/2005 From: Upstate NY Status: offline Hey downeastdigger, I thought you was gonna post some shards? Swizzle (in reply to swizzle) Post #: 10

RE: How Good Are You At ID'ing Shards? - 10/24/2006 6:41:37 PM    swizzle Posts: 3596 Joined: 3/2/2005 From: Upstate NY Status: offline More shards from the same hole. Only a few feet from the Success To The Railroad flask I found the base to a Cornicopia/Urn or Vase. I also got 3 bases to dark green or black glass umbrell inks. Some more shards to the Success to the RR and some others I haven't ID'ed yet. Sorry no pics yet but I'll get a few later. Still gonna need some help finding a good hole with whole bottles on this one. Swizzle (in reply to swizzle) Post #: 11

RE: How Good Are You At ID'ing Shards? - 10/24/2006 6:52:32 PM    swizzle Posts: 3596 Joined: 3/2/2005 From: Upstate NY Status: offline What was the cornicopia flask made to commemorate? I know the success to the rr flask was made to commemorate the completion of the transcontinential RR from east to west in 1869, but what about the cornicopia? Hmmmm.... Swizzle (in reply to swizzle) Post #: 12

RE: How Good Are You At ID'ing Shards? - 10/24/2006 8:30:05 PM    Mainepontil Posts: 215 Joined: 1/11/2005 Status: offline Yeah Bram, I'm waiting to see them too. _____________________________ Dig it NOW....before a housing development is built. (in reply to swizzle) Post #: 13

RE: How Good Are You At ID'ing Shards? - 10/24/2006 9:54:59 PM    downeastdigger Posts: 3160 Joined: 8/22/2005 From: Crawling through the mud and briars of Eliot Maine Status: offline Shards Away  ! This is an old school desk that I display some of my best shards in Attachment (1) (in reply to swizzle) Post #: 14

RE: How Good Are You At ID'ing Shards? - 10/24/2006 9:56:25 PM    downeastdigger Posts: 3160 Joined: 8/22/2005 From: Crawling through the mud and briars of Eliot Maine Status: offline Woulda beena teal Iron Pontil Meyers Rock Rose from New Haven Ct Attachment (1) (in reply to downeastdigger) Post #: 15

RE: How Good Are You At ID'ing Shards? - 10/24/2006 9:57:47 PM    downeastdigger Posts: 3160 Joined: 8/22/2005 From: Crawling through the mud and briars of Eliot Maine Status: offline On the left would have been a PINT profile Lafayette jar,  the left would have been a FAVORITE jar ( last one auctioned at Hecklers for $11,000) Attachment (1) (in reply to downeastdigger) Post #: 16

RE: How Good Are You At ID'ing Shards? - 10/24/2006 9:58:52 PM    downeastdigger Posts: 3160 Joined: 8/22/2005 From: Crawling through the mud and briars of Eliot Maine Status: offline One of 2 broken dark teal green Willington Eagle flasks I dug Attachment (1) (in reply to downeastdigger) Post #: 17

RE: How Good Are You At ID'ing Shards? - 10/24/2006 10:00:36 PM    downeastdigger Posts: 3160 Joined: 8/22/2005 From: Crawling through the mud and briars of Eliot Maine Status: offline There are only 2 or 3 whole examples known of this quart green Chittinango Springs mineral water bottle.  Dug it with friends in Chittinango NY.  It was one of my first "permissions" privies I ever got myself.  Not many whole bottles though Attachment (1) (in reply to downeastdigger) Post #: 18

RE: How Good Are You At ID'ing Shards? - 10/24/2006 10:01:22 PM    downeastdigger Posts: 3160 Joined: 8/22/2005 From: Crawling through the mud and briars of Eliot Maine Status: offline Several pontilled colored inks Attachment (1) (in reply to downeastdigger) Post #: 19

RE: How Good Are You At ID'ing Shards? - 10/24/2006 10:02:26 PM    downeastdigger Posts: 3160 Joined: 8/22/2005 From: Crawling through the mud and briars of Eliot Maine Status: offline Have dug a fair amount of whole ones, so the shards don't hurt too bad. All of these bottles were dug Attachment (1) (in reply to downeastdigger) Post #: 20

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