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Sunday after church dig - 1/9/2012 4:34:57 PM    druggistnut Posts: 1150 Joined: 1/7/2006 From: Otisville, Michigan Status: offline Saturday night, Nic (mtfd2222) and I spent some time on the phone, planning a dig for Sunday. I had to be at church, as it was my week for setup.  We went over the Sanborn's for the area we were looking at and settled on a saloon surrounded by three houses. A large pit sat in the middle of all four buildings, which we figured was a common one for the saloon and the houses (probably employees). This is in a very bad part of Saginaw. We're talking murders, all the time. The saloon building still stood, boarded up. Nic and Sarah got there first and probed it out. He called me and said he was hitting glass but that the area was starting to fill up with milling undesirables, who were eyeballing him. I told him to hang on, as I had a pistol and a 12 gauge I had brought along. Once I got there, we figured that it was best to come back another day, early in the morning.  Scratch one spot. We went to another area we had discussed but it dodn't look promising. I said, lets go check out that abandoned railway station. So we hit a vacant lot across from it. Nic soon had a pit on the back line probed out. It ended up being a 4 X4 X4 woody, with all hingemold/pontil aged stuff in it. A lot of unembossed meds, an early druggist, a pontiled Genuine Essence, a early Detroit squat, several commons, a nice pipe (damaged) and the find of the day. Here is Nic holding it up. Attachment (1) _____________________________ Michigan drugstore bottles/dose glasses, jugs, etc... Any paper from Mich drugstores, pre 1900. Michigan hutches. Anything unusual from Michigan, i.e., paper from bottlers, etc... Buy or trade President-Flint, Michigan FOHBC Club Post #: 1

RE: Sunday after church dig - 1/9/2012 4:40:46 PM    druggistnut Posts: 1150 Joined: 1/7/2006 From: Otisville, Michigan Status: offline Funny, I had dug a damaged one years ago, and it was after that I learned that my ancestor, Dr David Ransom, had held the proprietary rights to this bitters. This is a S-182 (variant) Dr John W. Steele's Niagara Star Bitters. This one is yellow-olive, one star facing down, with NO embossing on the base. Eagle faces right, no arrows. 17 total stars on the bottle The book doesn't show a variant without the base embossing, as far as I can tell. Pics to follow... Attachment (1) (in reply to druggistnut) Post #: 2

RE: Sunday after church dig - 1/9/2012 4:42:56 PM    druggistnut Posts: 1150 Joined: 1/7/2006 From: Otisville, Michigan Status: offline 2 Attachment (1) (in reply to druggistnut) Post #: 3

RE: Sunday after church dig - 1/9/2012 4:43:35 PM    druggistnut Posts: 1150 Joined: 1/7/2006 From: Otisville, Michigan Status: offline 3 Attachment (1) (in reply to druggistnut) Post #: 4

RE: Sunday after church dig - 1/9/2012 4:44:26 PM    druggistnut Posts: 1150 Joined: 1/7/2006 From: Otisville, Michigan Status: offline 4 Attachment (1) (in reply to druggistnut) Post #: 5

RE: Sunday after church dig - 1/9/2012 4:44:48 PM    druggistnut Posts: 1150 Joined: 1/7/2006 From: Otisville, Michigan Status: offline 5 Attachment (1) < Message edited by druggistnut -- 1/9/2012 4:47:58 PM > (in reply to druggistnut) Post #: 6

RE: Sunday after church dig - 1/9/2012 4:48:51 PM    druggistnut Posts: 1150 Joined: 1/7/2006 From: Otisville, Michigan Status: offline 6 Attachment (1) (in reply to druggistnut) Post #: 7

RE: Sunday after church dig - 1/9/2012 4:49:14 PM    druggistnut Posts: 1150 Joined: 1/7/2006 From: Otisville, Michigan Status: offline 7 (in reply to druggistnut) Post #: 8

RE: Sunday after church dig - 1/9/2012 4:52:49 PM    historyhunter   Posts: 202 Joined: 7/4/2011 Status: offline AWESOME stuff Bill. What a great find!! _____________________________ I am a riverdawg thats where me finds my treasure. (in reply to druggistnut) Post #: 9

RE: Sunday after church dig - 1/9/2012 4:57:36 PM    luckiest   Posts: 227 Joined: 1/12/2010 Status: offline Nice! I like that one, any chance of seeing the rest? (in reply to historyhunter) Post #: 10

RE: Sunday after church dig - 1/9/2012 5:02:31 PM    druggistnut Posts: 1150 Joined: 1/7/2006 From: Otisville, Michigan Status: offline Working on it, wireless in and out Attachment (1) (in reply to luckiest) Post #: 11

RE: Sunday after church dig - 1/9/2012 5:03:41 PM    druggistnut Posts: 1150 Joined: 1/7/2006 From: Otisville, Michigan Status: offline downward star Attachment (1) (in reply to druggistnut) Post #: 12

RE: Sunday after church dig - 1/9/2012 5:06:23 PM    druggistnut Posts: 1150 Joined: 1/7/2006 From: Otisville, Michigan Status: offline As far as the rest of the bottles, I took a pic of some laying on the ground, will post in a min. I did not take pics of everything after digging. My camera was acting squirrely. Nic has some of the bottles at home and I have some soaking. I'll try later. Attachment (1) (in reply to druggistnut) Post #: 13

RE: Sunday after church dig - 1/9/2012 5:08:05 PM    druggistnut Posts: 1150 Joined: 1/7/2006 From: Otisville, Michigan Status: offline during the dig. I don't always remember to take pics and Nic didn't have his camera with him Attachment (1) (in reply to druggistnut) Post #: 14

RE: Sunday after church dig - 1/9/2012 5:15:45 PM    pikewaynepabottles   Posts: 75 Joined: 8/1/2010 Status: offline Beautiful Bitters ! Congratulations ! _____________________________ Pike Co Pa-Milford Matamoras Shohola Lords Valley Lackawaxen Rowlands Bushkill Dingmans Ferry . Wayne Co Pa-Hawley Honesdale Atco White Mills So. Sterling So. Canaan Hawley Glass Co Honesdale Glass Works A.Hartung Brewery WW/H Weston Honesdale Stoneware (in reply to druggistnut) Post #: 15

RE: Sunday after church dig - 1/9/2012 5:52:21 PM    mtfdfire22   Posts: 389 Joined: 2/7/2011 From: munger MI Status: offline twas a good dig. shallow 3 1/2 foot pontil and hinge mold pit. once i get batteries in the camera i will take pictures of what i took home. _____________________________ intrested in buying: mungers sarsaparilla, matthew's patents, budweiser bottles, bay city mi bottles and saginaw bottles. (in reply to pikewaynepabottles) Post #: 16

RE: Sunday after church dig - 1/9/2012 5:54:17 PM    Plumbata Posts: 1660 Joined: 12/4/2007 Status: offline That's one heckuvagood bitters, nice dig guys! Please be sure to post the other finds when possible. _____________________________ Alterius non sit qui suus esse potest. Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper. - Thomas Jefferson (in reply to druggistnut) Post #: 17

RE: Sunday after church dig - 1/9/2012 5:58:22 PM    cacarpetbagger   Posts: 181 Joined: 1/2/2012 Status: offline Congratulations, that is a wonderful bottle.  Digs like that keep ya going back for more. (in reply to mtfdfire22) Post #: 18

RE: Sunday after church dig - 1/9/2012 7:58:38 PM    tftfan Posts: 1459 Joined: 5/11/2006 Status: offline Very nice ! Attachment (1) (in reply to cacarpetbagger) Post #: 19

RE: Sunday after church dig - 1/9/2012 8:02:05 PM    madman Posts: 10371 Joined: 2/5/2005 Status: offline wow killer! _____________________________ always looking for, Toledo Ohio, Knoxville Tn. milks pharms and sodas, (in reply to tftfan) Post #: 20

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