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Just wanted to share some pics. - 7/31/2003 8:56:22 PM    BottleDawg   Posts: 12 Joined: 7/29/2003 From: CO Springs CO Status: offline well here is a few pics of what i have found in a kinda odd place, and a story to go with it. now i have never known about bottle collecting untill maybe a month ago. well im in pipeline construction, and we had just started this new job downtown . well the first time we put the trackhoe bucket in the ground just a few feet down we hear things break, well after a few buckets one of the other guys finds a amber perfume bottle with the glass cork still intacked. we all look at it an think, wow nice bottle its from london. well after we start getting the ditch opened up we found a ash layer a foot or so deep just below a fiber optic duct run in the middle of the street. so as we dig we start finding alot of bottles, some that look like ketchup bottles, some tea cups, plates, an med bottles. well as we dig down the side of this duct run we find that this ash layer runs all the way down the street. well we all picked what we wanted an took them home. after a week or so a digger/collector comes by an informs us that he will buy good bottles. so the formen an i show this guy what we have found and he says we have alot of " common" bottles, but also informs us about the hobbie and what bottles to look for. he also thinks its kinda odd for all of these to be in the middle of the road an that it streachs for a block or so in just a small area.(glad its just not me thinking this) now that all the guys know what we are finding, whenever we spot glass we all push each other outa the way to see what it is. i have even been body checked by others so they can see it first. i swear sometimes i was in a hocky game an not at work,(its kinda funny to see 5 or 6 construction workers get worked up over glass in the ground) but somehow i manage to pick up some cool looking bottles. i have found out real quick i am running out of room for all these. i have thought of trying to sell em to help out a new collector just starting, but also thinking of just putting them away an maybe start collecting myself ( IF i happen to find any more on another job site) its addicting to find things so old but still intact an learn about them. anyway here are a few pics of maybe a quarter of what i have found in the past month at work. we have found alot intact an undamaged some have names an things on them some have nothen,an some have nothen but maybe a symble or numbers on the bottom. and also these pics are of the bottles uncleaned just strait out of the ground with enough dirt removed so we could read them. Attachment (1) _____________________________ Just a PackRatt Post #: 1

RE: Just wanted to share some pics. - 7/31/2003 8:58:05 PM    BottleDawg   Posts: 12 Joined: 7/29/2003 From: CO Springs CO Status: offline other views... Attachment (1) _____________________________ Just a PackRatt (in reply to BottleDawg) Post #: 2

RE: Just wanted to share some pics. - 7/31/2003 8:59:44 PM    BottleDawg   Posts: 12 Joined: 7/29/2003 From: CO Springs CO Status: offline .. Attachment (1) < Message edited by BottleDawg -- 7/31/2003 7:00:13 PM > _____________________________ Just a PackRatt (in reply to BottleDawg) Post #: 3

RE: Just wanted to share some pics. - 7/31/2003 9:02:00 PM    BottleDawg   Posts: 12 Joined: 7/29/2003 From: CO Springs CO Status: offline .. Attachment (1) _____________________________ Just a PackRatt (in reply to BottleDawg) Post #: 4

RE: Just wanted to share some pics. - 7/31/2003 9:03:58 PM    BottleDawg   Posts: 12 Joined: 7/29/2003 From: CO Springs CO Status: offline .. Attachment (1) _____________________________ Just a PackRatt (in reply to BottleDawg) Post #: 5

RE: Just wanted to share some pics. - 8/1/2003 6:09:39 PM    woody   Posts: 1674 Joined: 10/29/2002 From: Gilmanton, New Hampshire Status: online Nice........ I see a Warner' s Safe Cure.......... Hyundai Janos Bitters......... Maltine Manufacturing co......... etc............ Most of these bottles are typical of late 1800' s. You must have had a blast finding these. Keep looking for more!!! _____________________________ Woody (in reply to BottleDawg) Post #: 6

RE: Just wanted to share some pics. - 8/1/2003 6:56:44 PM    BottleDawg   Posts: 12 Joined: 7/29/2003 From: CO Springs CO Status: offline yes woody i did. it was kinda like a game, a cross between i spy and Hocky or Rugbe. i' v been bodychecked, pushed&pulled,draged, outa the way to get to these bottles. i hear there are 2 types of the Warner' s Safe Cure, 1 with the hindges on the left an 1 with the on the right. i guess there was somesort of mistake when they made it, and 1 is more rare. is that correct? sad to say i had to leave that job site today an start a new crew. guess i wont be finding anymore unless i go digging myself. i did meet a digger/collector while i was there, maybe i' ll call him an see if i can tag along on his next dig. i kinda enjoy the excitement of seeing what i find. oh i almost forgot to post my last find!! this is gota be my fav sofar. i have a few old oil lamps but none that are this old or small. i gota see if i can find the parts and i might " restore" it just for show around the house. Attachment (1) _____________________________ Just a PackRatt (in reply to BottleDawg) Post #: 7

RE: Just wanted to share some pics. - 8/1/2003 7:31:21 PM    woody   Posts: 1674 Joined: 10/29/2002 From: Gilmanton, New Hampshire Status: online Nice cobalt/saphire oil lamp. You should be able to find a nice old brass standard to fit on it. I' ve dug many standards for oil lamps over the years. Yes, the Warner' s does have the hinges on the left and right. I believe the left hand hinge is rarer, but I may be mistaken. I' ve dug about a half dozen Warners, myself. It' s always a good bottle to find. I thought I saw a Keesby Mattison saphire blue bottle in your lot, also. I' d go back and check out that area some more if you get a chance. _____________________________ Woody (in reply to BottleDawg) Post #: 8

RE: Just wanted to share some pics. - 8/1/2003 7:32:37 PM    woody   Posts: 1674 Joined: 10/29/2002 From: Gilmanton, New Hampshire Status: online Oh, and don' t be afraid to clean them, also. _____________________________ Woody (in reply to BottleDawg) Post #: 9

RE: Just wanted to share some pics. - 8/1/2003 8:59:30 PM    BottleDawg   Posts: 12 Joined: 7/29/2003 From: CO Springs CO Status: offline great eye there woody!! i had to go out a look at that bottle to see if it was a Keasby, an it is. i talked to that other collector an he said the saphire was worth a lil $$,(50 or so dollors) but it has a lil chip at the very bottom of the handle where it connects. (price droping to slim to none for it im guessing ) but he said he knew a few people that had some parts. so i will keep it. not sure how well you can see that Warners bottle but it has gotten like a flaky pearl coating on it after it was unearthed. i tryed warm soapy water but after it drys it reapears, any sugestion on how to get rid of that ? i didnt see any topic of that kinda prob in the cleaning section here. alot of the bottles we pulled up do the same thing. id love to go back an dig in that same spot but i cant. as of yesterday, the road was blacktoped. guess what ever secrets it has will be kept for a while longer. _____________________________ Just a PackRatt (in reply to BottleDawg) Post #: 10

RE: Just wanted to share some pics. - 11/5/2003 9:43:24 AM    colodigger   Posts: 10 Joined: 11/4/2003 From: COLORADO Status: offline Hi Ya' Bottle Dawg.........Sound's like your dirt work was on the So. end of Weber Street.....Some of the bottle's from that area got back as far ( OLD ) as the late 1880's, which for the Colorado Spring's area is real decent age....That's good age, considering the town, in that time frame, was very small....There was also a nice dump site off of Conejos Street this summer...I dig mainly old outhouses', but the Spg's area can turn up a good dump site every so often....Nice going on your bottle's.....Bill M colodigger (in reply to BottleDawg) Post #: 11

RE: Just wanted to share some pics. - 11/6/2003 3:58:35 PM    Guest Hey Bottledawg, sounds like you had a lot of fun on your dig. It seems that the construction workers in Baltimore put up a fence as fast as they dig, and nobody gets in. Oh well......I just wanted to say that Woody is right about the "left-handed" Warner's safe being the rarer one. The right-hand safe also comes in a slug plate version, which is almost as rare as the left-hand safe. Mr. Warner marketed several different products in different countries, including England, Australia, Germany, and Canada. The bottles from Pressburg and Frankfurt Germany are very rare and much sought after, even by U.S. collectors. By the way, what is the square amber bottle at the right end of the top row? Graydons for Lung Diseases? Keep looking for digs, and send pictures if you can. (in reply to BottleDawg)   Post #: 12

RE: Just wanted to share some pics. - 11/6/2003 4:13:49 PM    Guest p.s. That white coating on your bottles is referred to as "stained" or "sick" glass. I only know of two ways to remove it. One is to tumble the bottle, which involves a machine that rolls the bottle around with various grades of grit and/or polish, just like a gem or stone polishing machine. It usually costs anywhere from $15 to $25, and can occasionally result in breakage, even if every precaution is taken. The other method invloves a commercial solution containing hydrfluoric acid that actually dissolves silica based products. I don't like the stuff though, because it can sometimes make the bottle look worse, and you won't know until it's too late. I have had much better results with tumbling. If you want your bottles cleaned, ask around to compare prices and results. Some people can over tumble, which gives the bottle an unnatural, too-glossy appearance. (in reply to BottleDawg)   Post #: 13

RE: Just wanted to share some pics. - 11/6/2003 8:16:17 PM    BottleDawg   Posts: 12 Joined: 7/29/2003 From: CO Springs CO Status: offline yes medbottle it is for Lung Diseases. around here we only put up a fence if we leave a trench open, most of the time we have it backfilled by the end of the day. an even the fence dont keep diggers out. on that site we had a digger come in after hours an mess up some exsposed fiber lines by diging above them an droping alot of dirt on top. an thx for the info about tumbleing. i did happen to sell most of those bottles, i had no room for em, i did keep a few an that lung disease was 1 of em. figered people came to colorado for tb an even tho that bottle isnt from colorado i think still a nice lil piece of history for the area. _____________________________ Just a PackRatt (in reply to BottleDawg) Post #: 14

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