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I do my digging underwater in Eastport, Maine. - 9/18/2006 1:23:54 PM    adshepard   Posts: 214 Joined: 8/11/2004 Status: offline Dove up in Eastport, Maine Friday, Saturday and Sunday and came away with some nice bottles. This first one is about 10 inches tall and heavy as sin, especially when filled with mud and stones.  I believe it is a ginger beer bottle from the late 1800's.  I found it on my second dive on Friday about five or so minutes in to the dive it was mostly buried with just the side showing out of the mud.  Not wanting to lose it I had to lug it and my camera around the entire dive.  I suppose I could have put it in a safe place and retrieved it but the viz wasn't super and I could have spent too much time looking for it again. The next three were all together no more than a foot or so apart with just a bit of glass showing above the sediment. Here is a link to these and other photos: Bottles Alan < Message edited by adshepard -- 9/18/2006 1:24:35 PM > Post #: 1

RE: I do my digging underwater in Eastport, Maine. - 9/18/2006 1:34:48 PM    towhead Posts: 914 Joined: 12/31/2004 Status: offline Great bottles....sure wish I could find some bottles remotely close to those here in Northern Minnesota! _____________________________ J (in reply to adshepard) Post #: 2

RE: I do my digging underwater in Eastport, Maine. - 9/18/2006 1:41:01 PM    Ye Olde Prospector   Posts: 614 Joined: 1/23/2005 From: Bath, Maine Status: offline Hi adshepard, Welcome to the forums. Great bottle finds. Think that F&B one is Fairbanks and Beard from Boston. I dug a Stoneware one a while back. Nice finds. Cliff (in reply to adshepard) Post #: 3

RE: I do my digging underwater in Eastport, Maine. - 9/18/2006 4:14:20 PM    Sam_MaineBottles Posts: 384 Joined: 4/5/2004 From: Mid-coast Maine Status: offline Hey adshepard - Those are some sweet bottles!  Eastport goes back aways history wise, that's a great place to go diving. The Ingalls Bros stoneware bottle is from Portland, ME, probably form the 1880s. There are five stoneware bottles from Eastport all with different names debossed in them, maybe you'll get lucky next time and find one of those - they can be worth some big bucks. Later - Sam _____________________________ Author of 'Maine Bottlers and Their Bottles, 1840-1980' (in reply to Ye Olde Prospector) Post #: 4

RE: I do my digging underwater in Eastport, Maine. - 9/18/2006 4:58:10 PM    bottlecol345   Posts: 96 Joined: 5/21/2006 Status: offline Great bottles! Im taking a diving class at my school to hopefully find stuff like that someday!! Chris _____________________________ I Buy Insulators! (in reply to adshepard) Post #: 5

RE: I do my digging underwater in Eastport, Maine. - 9/18/2006 5:58:54 PM    woody   Posts: 1805 Joined: 10/29/2002 From: Gilmanton, New Hampshire Status: offline That F & B bottle looks to have an iron pontil. _____________________________ Woody (in reply to bottlecol345) Post #: 6

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