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Recent underwater find - 2/21/2006 12:24:42 PM    southern Maine diver Posts: 1436 Joined: 8/13/2005 From: South Berwick, Maine USA Status: offline Hey gang... It has been a while since I posted any photo's of underwater finds, so here's one... I found it last year, and I haven't been able to find out what it is. The overall outside shape suggests that it may be some kind of blacking bottle, but the neck is really strange, channeled? I don't know. Check it out Attachment (1) Post #: 1

RE: Recent underwater find - 2/21/2006 12:25:49 PM    southern Maine diver Posts: 1436 Joined: 8/13/2005 From: South Berwick, Maine USA Status: offline another angle... Attachment (1) (in reply to southern Maine diver) Post #: 2

RE: Recent underwater find - 2/21/2006 12:26:51 PM    southern Maine diver Posts: 1436 Joined: 8/13/2005 From: South Berwick, Maine USA Status: offline here's another... Attachment (1) (in reply to southern Maine diver) Post #: 3

RE: Recent underwater find - 2/21/2006 12:27:46 PM    southern Maine diver Posts: 1436 Joined: 8/13/2005 From: South Berwick, Maine USA Status: offline here's the base... Attachment (1) (in reply to southern Maine diver) Post #: 4

RE: Recent underwater find - 2/21/2006 12:29:31 PM    southern Maine diver Posts: 1436 Joined: 8/13/2005 From: South Berwick, Maine USA Status: offline Back lighted... (Bear with me guys, I just want to see how this photo came out... I been practicing!) Wayne Attachment (1) (in reply to southern Maine diver) Post #: 5

RE: Recent underwater find - 2/21/2006 12:55:15 PM    Pontiled   Posts: 411 Joined: 8/27/2003 Status: offline I've seen one of these about 30 years ago, but it was aqua. The owner figured that the grooves inside the neck guided a pill at a time to be dispensed. I really have no idea. It's a very interesting bottle, though. C'mon guys, tell us what you think. There are more questions than answers here! _____________________________ Mike Russell Author of: The Collector's Guide to Civil War Period Bottles and Jars -- Third Edition (in reply to southern Maine diver) Post #: 6

RE: Recent underwater find - 2/21/2006 1:11:20 PM    capsoda Posts: 7869 Joined: 11/15/2005 From: Seminole,Alabama, USA Status: offline Hey Wayne, nice little odd bottle. You sure are getting good with that camera slicky boy.. Could be for some kind of stopper. Just a guess. < Message edited by capsoda -- 2/21/2006 12:12:57 PM > _____________________________ Warren Diggin down in Dixie, USA Work is for people who don't dig bottles President, Panhandle Cruisers http://www.panhandlecruisers.org/ (in reply to southern Maine diver) Post #: 7

RE: Recent underwater find - 2/21/2006 1:20:01 PM    southern Maine diver Posts: 1436 Joined: 8/13/2005 From: South Berwick, Maine USA Status: offline Hey Cap... I have to be able to do something with this camera, I'm gonna be taking a lot of pictures when you guys get up here. Got to have something to blackmail you with... So I'm practicing. Also, I'm buying a new underwater digital camera, so all you guys and gals can enjoy the underwater bottle world and I'm gonna take you up on your advice to write a book... I hope. Wayne (in reply to southern Maine diver) Post #: 8

RE: Recent underwater find - 2/21/2006 1:23:56 PM    capsoda Posts: 7869 Joined: 11/15/2005 From: Seminole,Alabama, USA Status: offline You sure have graduated from pics of your thumb to pics of nice bottles. My baby boy is growing up. _____________________________ Warren Diggin down in Dixie, USA Work is for people who don't dig bottles President, Panhandle Cruisers http://www.panhandlecruisers.org/ (in reply to southern Maine diver) Post #: 9

RE: Recent underwater find - 2/21/2006 1:30:12 PM    GuntherHess Posts: 5129 Joined: 12/13/2004 From: Frederick Maryland Status: offline here is my theory on the bottle for what its worth... It appears to be a boot blacking/polish bottle. The neck restrictions would be for squeezing excess polish off applicator as you take it out of the bottle, preventing dripping. Current liquid polish bottles often do similar. _____________________________ Looking for Frederick Maryland and Dr Fahrney Bottles 2008 Medicine Bottle Price Guide on CDROM http://www.mattsoldhouse.com/MC/bottles/BottleBook2008.htm email http://www.mattsoldhouse.com/MC/bottles/email.jpg (in reply to southern Maine diver) Post #: 10

RE: Recent underwater find - 2/21/2006 1:35:05 PM    capsoda Posts: 7869 Joined: 11/15/2005 From: Seminole,Alabama, USA Status: offline I think Matt has it!!!! _____________________________ Warren Diggin down in Dixie, USA Work is for people who don't dig bottles President, Panhandle Cruisers http://www.panhandlecruisers.org/ (in reply to southern Maine diver) Post #: 11

RE: Recent underwater find - 2/21/2006 3:09:58 PM    bearswede Posts: 2909 Joined: 9/28/2004 From: western mass Status: offline Looks like it might be English... Ron _____________________________ "I LOVE Wolfies!!!!!!!!!!!!" (in reply to southern Maine diver) Post #: 12

RE: Recent underwater find - 2/21/2006 3:14:52 PM    southern Maine diver Posts: 1436 Joined: 8/13/2005 From: South Berwick, Maine USA Status: offline Hey guys... Thank you all for the help. I found this outside of the navy yard , but had no real idea about what it might have been. it has a great color to it and the neck was really unusual. That's what I initially thought it was (blacking bottle) Thanks Matt! Ron, what gives you the idea that it may be English? Warren, I think I'm gonna make a thumb dude movie!!!! How's that for growin up? I got a bunch of "Thumb Dude" ideas You wait n see Wayne (in reply to southern Maine diver) Post #: 13

RE: Recent underwater find - 2/21/2006 3:27:09 PM    capsoda Posts: 7869 Joined: 11/15/2005 From: Seminole,Alabama, USA Status: offline I'll just have to bring my thumb dude with me when I come. Hey, We can do a thumb dude duet. We is gona haba blast. _____________________________ Warren Diggin down in Dixie, USA Work is for people who don't dig bottles President, Panhandle Cruisers http://www.panhandlecruisers.org/ (in reply to southern Maine diver) Post #: 14

RE: Recent underwater find - 2/21/2006 3:29:04 PM    Maine Digger   Posts: 823 Joined: 2/4/2004 From: Augusta, Maine Status: offline Neat bottle Wayne, but I gotta ask, How close are you diving by the sub base? I've done business there and it usually takes me 30 -45 minutes just to get through the gate! I bet they would take a REAL interest in your bubbles if you got too close. I don't know if I asked this in the past (I've been away from the Forum for better part of a year), have you taken the plunge in Sebago or Moosehead? I hear there's all kinds of things in them, from Spitfires to a side wheel paddle boat, not to mention virgin forest 'King's Pine' masts that sunk on the way to the canal. _____________________________ Norm Miller (in reply to southern Maine diver) Post #: 15

RE: Recent underwater find - 2/21/2006 3:49:33 PM    GuntherHess Posts: 5129 Joined: 12/13/2004 From: Frederick Maryland Status: offline quote: what gives you the idea that it may be English? My first impression was also that it might be an English import. The lip style is more commonly seen on imports. The color is odd for a late 19th century American bottle but not that odd for english bottles of that period. Newton is a common english name. Just a feeling at this point. _____________________________ Looking for Frederick Maryland and Dr Fahrney Bottles 2008 Medicine Bottle Price Guide on CDROM http://www.mattsoldhouse.com/MC/bottles/BottleBook2008.htm email http://www.mattsoldhouse.com/MC/bottles/email.jpg (in reply to southern Maine diver) Post #: 16

RE: Recent underwater find - 2/21/2006 4:22:19 PM    bearswede Posts: 2909 Joined: 9/28/2004 From: western mass Status: offline What he said... Name, color, weird neck... Remember what ABBA said: "Hooked on a feelin'" Ron < Message edited by bearswede -- 2/21/2006 4:28:06 PM > _____________________________ "I LOVE Wolfies!!!!!!!!!!!!" (in reply to GuntherHess) Post #: 17

RE: Recent underwater find - 2/21/2006 5:47:21 PM    texasdigger Posts: 257 Joined: 1/6/2006 From: Roanoke Texas Status: offline Just think when all you guys get together Wayne will be able to take thumb glamour shots for all of you. Maybe even some type of thumb group digging photo to post here. A composition entitled "Thumbs in their natural enviroment". Also that is a realy nice bottle. By looking at it the single pill theory looks very plausable to me. Nice find! Brad (in reply to southern Maine diver) Post #: 18

RE: Recent underwater find - 2/21/2006 6:04:19 PM    Mihai   Posts: 276 Joined: 1/3/2006 Status: offline Hi Wayne, This looks like an interesting bottle and I give it a search on the Net. I found out that a ship named S.S. Newton was wrecked on a reef near Madeira in 1881. So maybe this is not a person name but a ship. I'm sorry my English stops right before the letter "s" so I have no idea what S. S. stands for, but I'm sure you, like an old, but strong, sea-wolf will do. Take care! _____________________________ Mihai This whole worlds wild at heart and wierd on top (in reply to southern Maine diver) Post #: 19

RE: Recent underwater find - 2/21/2006 6:36:10 PM    capsoda Posts: 7869 Joined: 11/15/2005 From: Seminole,Alabama, USA Status: offline USS on U S ships means United States Ship HMS on English ships means Her Majesties Ship DMB on Itialian ships means Data My Boat But SS meant surface ship Sorry! I can't help it! < Message edited by capsoda -- 2/21/2006 5:37:16 PM > _____________________________ Warren Diggin down in Dixie, USA Work is for people who don't dig bottles President, Panhandle Cruisers http://www.panhandlecruisers.org/ (in reply to southern Maine diver) Post #: 20

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