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Woulda been a killer! damn bulldozer - 9/22/2006 10:31:34 AM   
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From: Crawling through the mud and briars of Eliot Maine
Status: offline 		Joel ( Maine Pontil ) wrote on line here that the "archeologist types" who call us bottle digger " looters" should be grateful to us for saving bottles and artifacts from being smashed forever by developers putting in condo units, smashing these beautiful treasures for no one to enjoy.

I joked with him once and said that sounded like a juicy rationalization used as an excuse to justify us climbing fences in to construction sites and other places to dig our bottles I think we agreed that both things are true in a ways.

Then yesterday, I'm out digging a land fill site, and I can hear bull dozers off in the distance in the middle of the downtown nearby. I got to the site, and wound up digging and finding a handfull of bottles scattered over the surface, mostly Bromo vintage 1920s stuff. Then I came across the pieces to this one, broken in place, smashed, laying directly in the tread track of a bulldozer :(
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RE: Woulda been a killer! damn bulldozer - 9/22/2006 10:47:44 AM   
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Status: offline 		KIDDERS / HORSE LINIMENT Huge open pontil 8" tall




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RE: Woulda been a killer! damn bulldozer - 9/22/2006 10:49:29 AM   
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Status: offline 		Large rare veteranary medicine. Has to be the same Kidder as the pontilled Disentary Cordial bottle out of Boston




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RE: Woulda been a killer! damn bulldozer - 9/22/2006 10:51:14 AM   
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Status: offline 		Got all the pieces I could and glued it as best I could. I'll be going back to the site if I can, to try to find any other older bottles that may have survived. All for now
Happy digging
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RE: Woulda been a killer! damn bulldozer - 9/22/2006 11:08:41 AM   
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the pontilled Disentary Cordial bottle out of Boston


Here it is to drool over:
http://www.greatantiquebottles.com/pm014text.html

Ron

PS... Archeologists don't like bulldozers either: they shoot context all to hell...


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RE: Woulda been a killer! damn bulldozer - 9/22/2006 12:58:39 PM   
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Status: offline 		I dont think I have seen one of the horse liniments sell. Its listed in Holst as exception. One was in the Greer collection. A very rare and nice peice.

ps the one in Holst is listed as 10" tall...you may have to look for some more peices.

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RE: Woulda been a killer! damn bulldozer - 9/22/2006 2:18:52 PM   
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Status: offline 		Hey, maybe a new deffinition of progress is "the inadvertent destruction of the past". Something like that anyway.

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RE: Woulda been a killer! damn bulldozer - 9/22/2006 6:23:20 PM   
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Status: offline 		It's not inadvertant, it's planned and carried out by pros who know all the loop holes and can bypass laws and regulations that the average digger can't.

I would define progress as "the planned and willful destruction of the past".

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RE: Woulda been a killer! damn bulldozer - 9/22/2006 8:27:40 PM   
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RE: Woulda been a killer! damn bulldozer - 9/22/2006 10:30:23 PM   
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Status: offline 		Hey Warren,  I want to shout out a big Hail Yeah to that definition of progress.  I have a perfect example.  I worked in an agricultural related field for several years.  I know for a fact that most all the big farming corporations in s e missouri and n e arkansas all move hundreds and thousands of yards of dirt in the name of irrigation and others.  In doing so they destroy an untold amount of artifacts, both historic and prehistoric.  I am talking about 8 to 12 very large tractors all pulling 2 large dirtpans apiece running 24 hours a day on some projects.  This is destruction on a grand scale and all perfectly legal I am sure.  Get caught with a shovel trying to dig and salvage for whatever reason these same artifacts and you are screwed.  So, who do you think has more pull???  5 thousand bottle-diggers or 5 multi-million dollar corporations.  No contest.

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RE: Woulda been a killer! damn bulldozer - 9/24/2006 9:51:11 PM   
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ORIGINAL: capsoda

It's not inadvertant, it's planned and carried out by pros who know all the loop holes and can bypass laws and regulations that the average digger can't.

I would define progress as "the planned and willful destruction of the past".

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RE: Woulda been a killer! damn bulldozer - 9/24/2006 9:56:05 PM   
downeastdigger


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Status: offline 		Hi Warren,
I dug one of those bluish hobbleskirts 1915, with the R on the base.  I think you said once you liked those, let me know if  you're interested. 
Man, what a frustrating experience, digging at this construction site.  I dug the  "in place" broken Kidders Horse liniment, and then spent a few hours of the past 3 days digging through several hundred 1930 bottles trying to find some sort of old vien of bottles, or maybe a privy that the bulldozer had plowed out.  No luck at all, just piles of clear, cobalt and amber abm , a few tool top.  I know there could be some nice stuff in there, but I dont have the patience. I probably put in 8 hours there total in 3 days trying to find anything nearly as old as that beautiful broken pontilled bottle.   Oh well, win some loose some.
happy digging
Bram

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RE: Woulda been a killer! damn bulldozer - 9/25/2006 8:45:24 PM   
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Status: offline 		That's a damn shame.  

I'd rather see it crushed by a big rock or something.


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RE: Woulda been a killer! damn bulldozer - 9/25/2006 9:03:52 PM   
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Status: offline 		Or even crushed by the end of my shovel..  At least I'd have someone to blame!

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