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This summer's Eastport, Maine UW finds (photos). - 8/29/2007 10:26:29 AM    adshepard   Posts: 214 Joined: 8/11/2004 Status: offline Here is one of my favorite finds from the waters of Eastport, Maine this summer.  It has no name on it but the date 1854 is stamped on it.  The cork is still inside the bottle.  It is about 10 inches tall.  The bottle was found in the same spot I found my "Dr. Manly Hardy's Jaundice Bitters" bottle a couple of years ago.  There were two broken "Beard's" mineral water bottles right next to it. Would this have contained ginger beer or something else? Alan < Message edited by adshepard -- 8/29/2007 10:37:58 AM > Post #: 1

RE: This summer's Eastport, Maine UW finds cont'd - 8/29/2007 10:30:06 AM    adshepard   Posts: 214 Joined: 8/11/2004 Status: offline Here is a nice "Comstock, Gove and Co." bottle with the 30 Canal Street address.  I already have one with the 139 Friend Street address that I found last year about 50 yards south of this bottle. This one has been through my polisher already. Alan (in reply to adshepard) Post #: 2

RE: This summer's Eastport, Maine UW finds cont'd - 8/29/2007 10:33:31 AM    adshepard   Posts: 214 Joined: 8/11/2004 Status: offline Here is a "Hood's Sarsaparilla" that I found sticking out from under a rock at about 45 feet.  Later that week I found an "Ayer's Sarsaparilla" not ten feet from the same spot that unfortunately had a huge hole. Alan (in reply to adshepard) Post #: 3

RE: This summer's Eastport, Maine UW finds cont'd - 8/29/2007 10:37:37 AM    adshepard   Posts: 214 Joined: 8/11/2004 Status: offline Okay help on this one! I don't know what this one would have been used for.  Some type of food container maybe?  It is about 8 inches tall. It was found in the same area as a bunch of 1870 to 1890 stuff but in the waters of Eastport your 1855 bottle could very easily be right next to your 2007 bottle. Alan (in reply to adshepard) Post #: 4

RE: This summer's Eastport, Maine UW finds cont'd - 8/29/2007 10:42:31 AM    adshepard   Posts: 214 Joined: 8/11/2004 Status: offline One more for now. This is a 4 ounce "E.E. Shead" druggist bottle.  I already have the 8 ounce version but it's not in as good shape.  Shead operated from 1856 until at least 1890.  The local high school is named after him and he helped publish the definitive history at least at the time of Eastport in 1888 or so. Drug store related bottles are generally found in the same area in Eastport as the establishment was right on a now destroyed wharf. Alan < Message edited by adshepard -- 8/29/2007 1:51:00 PM > (in reply to adshepard) Post #: 5

RE: This summer's Eastport, Maine UW finds cont'd - 8/29/2007 5:30:04 PM    tigue710 Posts: 1981 Joined: 7/11/2007 From: connecticut Status: online they stay in nice shape when they stay whole!  One thing about stoneware when it is dug is all the stain.... (in reply to adshepard) Post #: 6

RE: This summer's Eastport, Maine UW finds (photos) con... - 8/29/2007 6:35:24 PM    adshepard   Posts: 214 Joined: 8/11/2004 Status: offline Case gin found in early July.  This was a rather adventuresome dive.  Currents are strong in Passamaquoddy Bay and only at slack tide do they let up a bit.  On this day the slack was pretty good and I headed to an area far from my  entry point that I usually don't investigate.  The area was strewn with bottles.  There were so many that I had to pick and choose what I hauled back to shore.  Anyway I overstayed the slack and the current began to pick up.  Things would have been fairly easy but I had bottles stuffed in my BC pockets and in a lobster bag.  I was really loaded up.  I struggled to return to shore and even surfaced to see if heading back in a different direction made sense.  At the surface a lobster boat was only a hundred yards away and I was tempted to call out for a ride back but the shore was only 150 yards or so and I slowly made my way back knowing that if I really got too tired I could call out for assistance.  I was exhausted but this "Blankenhym & Nolet" case gin made the dive worth it. I haven't headed back to the area I found this bottle but it looks like nobody else has ever been there so it can wait until I see perfect conditions again. Alan (in reply to adshepard) Post #: 7

RE: This summer's Eastport, Maine UW finds cont'd - 8/29/2007 6:42:59 PM    overmyhead   Posts: 2 Joined: 7/9/2007 Status: offline It's most likely a shoe-blacking bottle from the UK. It would have had a label. If you look at the bottom of it, you'll most likely see the stamp of the pottery that produced it. There's a nice old advertisement for Army and Navy Liquid Blacking, which reflects your bottle, at http://sensationpress.com/victorianbootshoepolish.htm. It's a great site, with lots of Victorian advertising. (in reply to adshepard) Post #: 8

RE: This summer's Eastport, Maine UW finds cont'd - 8/29/2007 6:53:05 PM    adshepard   Posts: 214 Joined: 8/11/2004 Status: offline Overmyhead - No makers mark on the bottom.  It does look like the shoe blacking on the Victorian site. Thanks, Alan (in reply to overmyhead) Post #: 9

RE: This summer's Eastport, Maine UW finds cont'd - 8/29/2007 6:56:19 PM    adshepard   Posts: 214 Joined: 8/11/2004 Status: offline Here's another one.  The bottle is common and I have one other, however this one is in near pristine condition and has a nice green/blue coloration where my other one is clear and rather worn.  It's a "Dr. True's Elixir" it was a laxative/worm expeller which is embossed on the sides.  My daughter and wife got a kick out of a bottle which read worm expeller. Alan (in reply to adshepard) Post #: 10

RE: This summer's Eastport, Maine UW finds cont'd - 8/30/2007 9:05:50 AM    bigghouse Posts: 800 Joined: 7/15/2007 From: Essex MASS Status: offline thats awsome u can dive for bottles, i have to stick to snorkling. and the tubeything always goes under water. i get my boating licenns next year and maybe i'll learn. i like the Comstock, Gove and Co. one. annna _____________________________ =] (in reply to adshepard) Post #: 11

RE: This summer's Eastport, Maine UW finds cont'd - 8/30/2007 6:01:46 PM    adshepard   Posts: 214 Joined: 8/11/2004 Status: offline Another find from this summer, a small ceramic ink with an intact but shriveled cork. The interesting thing about this find is that when I found it I stuffed it in a pocket but it was not in the pocket when I surfaced.  Then while taking off my dry suit I tore a seal which meant I had to get it repaired which would take about a week.  Not wanting to lose out on the ink I then dove in a wet suit the following day in the somewhat chilly 48f water in order to hopefully find the ink again.  I was lucky enough, although a bit chilled, to find the ink just where I figured I had dropped it.  Gawd, I hate diving in a wet suit in cold water. Alan < Message edited by adshepard -- 8/30/2007 6:02:57 PM > (in reply to adshepard) Post #: 12

RE: This summer's Eastport, Maine UW finds cont'd - 8/31/2007 3:33:38 AM    Digger George   Posts: 321 Joined: 10/5/2006 From: PHILAD'A PA Status: offline Sweet finds Alan! I hear that diving off the coast of Maine in that cold water is some hardcore s**t! My respects to you and I hope you find the motherload. Find a loaded shipwreck! _____________________________ "Everything on the earth has a purpose, every disease an herb to cure it, and every person a mission. This is the Indian theory of existence." - Mourning Dove [Christine Quintasket] (1888-1936) Salish (in reply to adshepard) Post #: 13

RE: This summer's Eastport, Maine UW finds cont'd - 8/31/2007 11:52:10 PM    Jim Posts: 2492 Joined: 7/5/2005 From: Lewistown, PA Status: offline Very nice finds, Alan. Not many people get to rescue bottles from a watery grave. I love the squat soda and the druggist (two of my favorite types). ~Jim _____________________________ Preserving our buried history, one pit at a time. http://www.freewebs.com/lewistownbottles/index.htm (in reply to Digger George) Post #: 14

RE: This summer's Eastport, Maine UW finds (photos) con... - 9/1/2007 8:32:01 AM    RICKJJ59W Posts: 3879 Joined: 3/8/2007 From: Lehigh Valley US of A Status: offline Nice stuff!  I like the case gin, I give you your props, diving for glass looks crazy! There are a few big river  dumps where I live and I know no one has every hit them, the current is strong and its to deep to just wade in and drag bottom, that's spot I know the lurkers  wont get haha good luck on your next dive. Rick _____________________________ My web page. Dig story's published in Antique Bottle & Glass Collector. New story coming Feb & March. "Privies by the yard" www.19thcenturybottlediggers.com Digs in action. http://www.flickr.com (in reply to adshepard) Post #: 15

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