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Struck-Out On the Hole Fortunately - 8/11/2008 1:04:30 PM    zanes_antiques Posts: 2027 Joined: 9/3/2006 From: Steubenville, Ohio Status: offline    I dug yesterday and came up empty. I know that sounds bad but it gave me time to hit a yard sale less than a mile from my house. I almost passed it up until I saw the bottles on a table. I turned around and went back. I knew the family having the sale well, having went to highschool with two of them. What I didn't know was that their father had dug and collected bottles from atleast 1975.   There was an assortment of sodas on the table and when I asked about other bottles I was informed the basement was full of jars and milk bottles. They invited me in to look and right away I was finding good local milks. They asked me to make an offer and I did. They said the only stipulation is that I take every last one including the insulators. Being the obsessive bottle nut I am I conceded to their demands. two truck loads later and back at the ranch, my brother, nephew, and dad proceeded to see what I had.   I don't have a count as of yet but there are dozens of sodas, dozens of beers, over a hundred fruit jars, a selection of insulators, and well over a hundred milks. Here are a few photos from last night. I'll be sure to list the better finds on the forum for anyone who may be interested in them. _____________________________ I buy, sell, barter, and beg....Zane Post #: 1

RE: Struck-Out On the Hole Fortunately - 8/11/2008 3:27:55 PM    towhead Posts: 902 Joined: 12/31/2004 Status: offline Geeeeeeeeeeeeeeez!!!!!!!!!!!!  You are "Killin" me!!  LUCKY YOU!!!!!!!!!  _____________________________ J (in reply to zanes_antiques) Post #: 2

RE: Struck-Out On the Hole Fortunately - 8/11/2008 4:04:15 PM    beendiggin Posts: 734 Joined: 6/30/2005 Status: offline Nice haul, Zane!  You should get something really nice out of that buy.....keep us posted!  Did those old wooden crates come with the deal? Those are cool.  By the way I tried to PM you a while back about the trade for the Foley's but your box was full.  I wonder if you wouldn't trade me the McClure house bottle???  Let me know.  (in reply to zanes_antiques) Post #: 3

RE: Struck-Out On the Hole Fortunately - 8/11/2008 6:12:48 PM    capsoda Posts: 7863 Joined: 11/15/2005 From: Seminole,Alabama, USA Status: offline Good gooble dee goo!!!!! What a lucky shot. I need to get out to the yard sales and fleas more often. _____________________________ 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 beendiggin) Post #: 4

RE: Struck-Out On the Hole Fortunately - 8/11/2008 7:06:19 PM    kanudigit?   Posts: 221 Joined: 5/14/2008 Status: offline ZOIKS! _____________________________ A bottle in front of me is like a frontal lobotomy... (in reply to capsoda) Post #: 5

RE: Struck-Out On the Hole Fortunately - 8/11/2008 7:56:35 PM    madman   Posts: 4822 Joined: 2/5/2005 Status: offline hey zane wow! what a haul! mike _____________________________ always looking for eastern TENN sodas, milks and pharms, also anything from TOLEDO OHIO and MARION VA. (in reply to kanudigit?) Post #: 6

RE: Struck-Out On the Hole Fortunately - 8/11/2008 10:51:06 PM    Brains   Posts: 486 Joined: 9/2/2006 From: Hilliard/columbus ohio Status: offline good get, all i see at yard sales around here is used baby stuff.  What kind of insulators did you get? _____________________________ Let me know when the telegraph companies want their hemingray-42's back! bryan (in reply to madman) Post #: 7

RE: Struck-Out On the Hole Fortunately - 8/15/2008 1:06:25 PM    SergioWilkins   Posts: 63 Joined: 4/18/2006 Status: offline Aye, congratulations on a great haul! I'd love to see what some of those milks look like... but more than anything... let's see photos of those insulators! (in reply to Brains) Post #: 8

RE: Struck-Out On the Hole Fortunately - 8/17/2008 12:51:21 AM    zanes_antiques Posts: 2027 Joined: 9/3/2006 From: Steubenville, Ohio Status: offline    Thanks for the replies guys. Between selling bottles and working I haven't had time to post lately. I set up at the local flea market today and sold quite a bit. I also got a few nice ones for my druggist and whiskey collection, in trade for milks. I've just about doubled my money so far and have a few really rare ones left.   Here's a few photos of some sodas I got and one of a Wellsburg W.Va. Soda I got in a trade. I'll try to get a few more photos up when I can. One I am dying to show off is a Druggist from Wheeling W.Va. with a lion embossed on it. The other has an eagle perched on a mortar and pestle from East Liverpool, Ohio.   I am wondering if anyone can tell me anything about this early deco-type soda from Milwaukee. It's a "Graf's Zep" with Zepplins embossed on it and dated 1926 on the bottom. Here they are _____________________________ I buy, sell, barter, and beg....Zane (in reply to SergioWilkins) Post #: 9

RE: Struck-Out On the Hole Fortunately - 8/17/2008 1:36:52 AM    runvs56   Posts: 61 Joined: 7/30/2008 From: Marshall, Il. Status: offline Hey Zane, Nice sodas here is is a little info on the Graf Zep bottle. Hope this helps you some. http://www.mrbottles.com/galleryImage.asp?ID=1478 _____________________________ Mike Common Sense Is Not So Common.. (in reply to zanes_antiques) Post #: 10

RE: Struck-Out On the Hole Fortunately - 8/17/2008 2:15:21 AM    capsoda Posts: 7863 Joined: 11/15/2005 From: Seminole,Alabama, USA Status: offline Hey Zane, If you are going to sell the Zep let me know. _____________________________ 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 runvs56) Post #: 11

RE: Struck-Out On the Hole Fortunately - 8/17/2008 2:04:18 PM    morbious_fod   Posts: 719 Joined: 3/4/2007 From: The backwoods of the backwoods, Virginia Status: offline You lucky dog! Great find.  (in reply to capsoda) Post #: 12

RE: Struck-Out On the Hole Fortunately - 8/20/2008 3:24:14 PM    zanes_antiques Posts: 2027 Joined: 9/3/2006 From: Steubenville, Ohio Status: offline Thanks for the info on the Zep Bottle Mike. Sorry Cap but my mom laid claim to the Zep Bottle already. Can you give me any idea as to value? I'm going to try to get some more photos up asap of the other sodas. Hopefully some of you guys will want some even though they are from my area. _____________________________ I buy, sell, barter, and beg....Zane (in reply to morbious_fod) Post #: 13

RE: Struck-Out On the Hole Fortunately - 8/20/2008 3:45:47 PM    Tony14 Posts: 2461 Joined: 2/15/2005 From: Fond du Lac, Wisconsin Status: offline hey zane, the zep bottle sare pretty common. You can usually snag one on ebay for around 10 bucks _____________________________ Looking for any Fond du Lac bottle. Also looking for any embossed wisconsin medicines. And any Carters cone inks (in reply to zanes_antiques) Post #: 14

RE: Struck-Out On the Hole Fortunately - 8/20/2008 4:04:29 PM    zanes_antiques Posts: 2027 Joined: 9/3/2006 From: Steubenville, Ohio Status: offline Thanks Tony. I thought you might know _____________________________ I buy, sell, barter, and beg....Zane (in reply to Tony14) Post #: 15

RE: Struck-Out On the Hole Fortunately - 8/20/2008 4:18:07 PM    beendiggin Posts: 734 Joined: 6/30/2005 Status: offline Hey Zane, I know this is off topic, but could you E-mail me regarding the Foleys bottles I sent you?  I've had a hard time getting my PM to work .Thanks! Paul (in reply to zanes_antiques) Post #: 16

RE: Struck-Out On the Hole Fortunately - 8/26/2008 5:42:09 AM    AussieDigger   Posts: 1 Joined: 5/17/2007 Status: offline Great Pickup! ,i had one like that once over 60 boxes of glass and stoneware a few years ago , its just like digging for them but without the dirt . Hope you find a few surprises  . Cheers Aussiedigger (in reply to beendiggin) Post #: 17

RE: Struck-Out On the Hole Fortunately - 8/26/2008 6:24:59 AM    logueb   Posts: 1384 Joined: 1/6/2007 Status: offline That was truly a great find .  I'm glad that you got your investment back along with some keepers for your collection.  My wife would have killed me with the first pickup load.  And she is correct in that I need to start thinning my collection down.  I keep looking at this post and wondering, Will my kids do the same to my collection?  It's good to know that this guys collection went to a collector rather than into the trash.  It's being at the right place at the right time.  Sometimes us collectors get lucky.  Anyway great haul.  _____________________________ Buster Bottle Bug Bit with no cure in sight. (in reply to AussieDigger) Post #: 18

RE: Struck-Out On the Hole Fortunately - 8/26/2008 3:41:56 PM    zanes_antiques Posts: 2027 Joined: 9/3/2006 From: Steubenville, Ohio Status: offline Here's a few more from the collection _____________________________ I buy, sell, barter, and beg....Zane (in reply to logueb) Post #: 19

RE: Struck-Out On the Hole Fortunately - 8/27/2008 10:18:27 AM    logueb   Posts: 1384 Joined: 1/6/2007 Status: offline Hey Zane, Great Jumbo Lid.  Were any Jumbo jars in the lot?  Would look great sitting on top of one of my 1 lb. Jumbo's  Don't know much about the insulators. My Son-in-law is going to Lineman's  School in Sept. in Tenn.  He's working for a rural utility company and is begining to collect some of the older insulators that are being replaced with ones made out of some type of composite material.  I believe that the white one is supposed to be a Thomas, but in the pic the "T" looks like an "I".  Could be a mold misprint.  Anyway there is some information on the web under "Thomas Porcelain Insulators".  Hope this helps. _____________________________ Buster Bottle Bug Bit with no cure in sight. (in reply to zanes_antiques) Post #: 20

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