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More Swamp digging - 1/20/2007 1:44:36 PM    logueb   Posts: 2885 Joined: 1/6/2007 Status: offline I need your help on this one.  I continued on the test hole in the 30's dump located on the edge of the water covered pit in the swamp.  I started turning up brown( dark amber) no deposit/ no return bottles. These were mixed in with the 30's stuff.  These are not soda or beer bottles.  I believe these are prune juice bottles.  They were everywhere.  I  found this neat web site on when foods were introduced. www.geocities.com/foodedge/timeline.htm .   It shows that Sunsweet prune juice was introduced in 1933.  There were probably 50 or 60 in this one small spot. They must have went nuts over this new stuff. Would they have been NDNR bottles in the 30's? Sorry about the quality of the photos. Hopefully you will be able to see the pile in the right of the pic. I found just a few keepers and mostly heart breakers. Attachment (1) _____________________________ Buster Bottle Bug Bit with no cure in sight. Post #: 1

RE: More Swamp digging - 1/20/2007 1:48:22 PM    logueb   Posts: 2885 Joined: 1/6/2007 Status: offline The blue dish was marked Made in Japan. May go back and get it and claen it up. The other is a carnival glass bowl.  Ouch. Attachment (1) _____________________________ Buster Bottle Bug Bit with no cure in sight. (in reply to logueb) Post #: 2

RE: More Swamp digging - 1/20/2007 4:48:35 PM    frank   Posts: 544 Joined: 3/13/2005 Status: offline Nice bottles !!!! (in reply to logueb) Post #: 3

RE: More Swamp digging - 1/23/2007 12:32:33 PM    logueb   Posts: 2885 Joined: 1/6/2007 Status: offline Went back and cleaned up the "Made in Japan " bowl. I guess I'm getting to be a little "Archy" .  Too bad it's broken. Attachment (1) _____________________________ Buster Bottle Bug Bit with no cure in sight. (in reply to frank) Post #: 4

RE: More Swamp digging - 1/23/2007 12:36:57 PM    logueb   Posts: 2885 Joined: 1/6/2007 Status: offline Made another short dig in the swamp yesterday.  It was raining so no pics of the trench that is progressing slowly.  Thanks Masspete for the tip on what the brown amber bottles were. I didn't believe they could be beer.   They were no deposit / no return bottles used before World War II. They were called "Stubbys" .  The bottles in this part of the dump are a mixture of pre-prohibition and post-prohibition bottles.  Attached is a pic of some of today's finds.  I know most are just common bottles, but I'm still hoping to run across those toc pockets. Attachment (1) < Message edited by logueb -- 1/23/2007 12:45:37 PM > _____________________________ Buster Bottle Bug Bit with no cure in sight. (in reply to logueb) Post #: 5

RE: More Swamp digging - 1/23/2007 12:38:50 PM    logueb   Posts: 2885 Joined: 1/6/2007 Status: offline Beer bottles found.  " Stubby"  is on the right. Attachment (1) _____________________________ Buster Bottle Bug Bit with no cure in sight. (in reply to logueb) Post #: 6

RE: More Swamp digging - 1/23/2007 12:41:55 PM    logueb   Posts: 2885 Joined: 1/6/2007 Status: offline Found this post-prohibition bottle. It is a heavy bottle with a quilted pattern.  The bottom is marked Continental Distillers.  Anyone have any info? Attachment (1) _____________________________ Buster Bottle Bug Bit with no cure in sight. (in reply to logueb) Post #: 7

RE: More Swamp digging - 1/23/2007 12:43:35 PM    logueb   Posts: 2885 Joined: 1/6/2007 Status: offline Close-up of the emblem on the bottle. Attachment (1) _____________________________ Buster Bottle Bug Bit with no cure in sight. (in reply to logueb) Post #: 8

RE: More Swamp digging - 1/23/2007 12:44:46 PM    logueb   Posts: 2885 Joined: 1/6/2007 Status: offline Close-up of the marble. Attachment (1) _____________________________ Buster Bottle Bug Bit with no cure in sight. (in reply to logueb) Post #: 9

RE: More Swamp digging - 1/24/2007 12:27:33 PM    logueb   Posts: 2885 Joined: 1/6/2007 Status: offline I did a little research on the Continental Distilling Corporation bottle from Philadelphia , Penn.  They began in 1933.  They listed a whiskey or burbon called Silver Shield. I'm thinking this is probably an early bottle by this company. _____________________________ Buster Bottle Bug Bit with no cure in sight. (in reply to logueb) Post #: 10

RE: More Swamp digging - 1/24/2007 12:36:25 PM    logueb   Posts: 2885 Joined: 1/6/2007 Status: offline I didn't have much time to dig yesterday after work, about an hour.  So far I've brought out probably 200 whole bottles and jars from this dig site.  All just 30's and 40's stuff, nothing to get excited about.  The discard pile is really growing. I did happen upon a ACL NuGrape.  The label on this bottle was perfect when I pulled it out, but it started loosing paint from the time I removed it.  I tried to wash it carefully but it continued to loose paint off the label. Attachment (1) _____________________________ Buster Bottle Bug Bit with no cure in sight. (in reply to logueb) Post #: 11

RE: More Swamp digging - 1/24/2007 12:37:31 PM    logueb   Posts: 2885 Joined: 1/6/2007 Status: offline NuGrape after cleaning. Attachment (1) _____________________________ Buster Bottle Bug Bit with no cure in sight. (in reply to logueb) Post #: 12

RE: More Swamp digging - 1/25/2007 12:34:39 PM    logueb   Posts: 2885 Joined: 1/6/2007 Status: offline I had to move the pile of bottles and jars today.  I have the bad habit of placing the bottles that I pull out on top of the area that hasn't been dug.  The shrub tree that the bottles are piled had to go.  That's where all the roots were coming from.  I ran ito a small pocket of 20's stuff before I quit for the day.  I'll try to get some pics posted. Attachment (1) _____________________________ Buster Bottle Bug Bit with no cure in sight. (in reply to logueb) Post #: 13

RE: More Swamp digging - 1/25/2007 4:42:11 PM    Brains   Posts: 801 Joined: 9/2/2006 From: Hilliard/columbus ohio Status: offline if your are digging 1920's stuff, look for universal water bottles and refrigerator water bottles. I like those alot and i think i see one in your newest picture. _____________________________ Why are the seeds on the outside of a strawberry... (in reply to logueb) Post #: 14

RE: More Swamp digging - 1/26/2007 2:51:07 PM    logueb   Posts: 2885 Joined: 1/6/2007 Status: offline I need help identifying this amber bottle from the last swamp dig.  Tri-cornered, could it have been a poision? Attachment (1) _____________________________ Buster Bottle Bug Bit with no cure in sight. (in reply to Brains) Post #: 15

RE: More Swamp digging - 1/26/2007 2:52:58 PM    logueb   Posts: 2885 Joined: 1/6/2007 Status: offline Pic of the base. Attachment (1) _____________________________ Buster Bottle Bug Bit with no cure in sight. (in reply to logueb) Post #: 16

RE: More Swamp digging - 1/26/2007 2:54:34 PM    logueb   Posts: 2885 Joined: 1/6/2007 Status: offline Side view. _____________________________ Buster Bottle Bug Bit with no cure in sight. (in reply to logueb) Post #: 17

RE: More Swamp digging - 1/26/2007 2:55:59 PM    logueb   Posts: 2885 Joined: 1/6/2007 Status: offline Side view. ( try again) Attachment (1) _____________________________ Buster Bottle Bug Bit with no cure in sight. (in reply to logueb) Post #: 18

RE: More Swamp digging - 1/26/2007 2:59:26 PM    logueb   Posts: 2885 Joined: 1/6/2007 Status: offline Cleaned up catsup bottle.  Of all the catsup bottles that I have dug , this is the first that I can remember that is embossed.  The embossing is in 4 places . Attachment (1) _____________________________ Buster Bottle Bug Bit with no cure in sight. (in reply to logueb) Post #: 19

RE: More Swamp digging - 1/26/2007 3:00:56 PM    logueb   Posts: 2885 Joined: 1/6/2007 Status: offline close-up. Attachment (1) _____________________________ Buster Bottle Bug Bit with no cure in sight. (in reply to logueb) Post #: 20

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