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Yesterday`s Flea Market Finds! - 7/5/2010 12:24:49 PM    Bixby Bill Posts: 342 Joined: 4/24/2009 From: Ellington, CT Status: offline Yesterday was a great day for me at the local flea market! I found a clear panelled twisted pontilled decanter with the initials U.S.Q.M.C. on the shoulder (United States Quarter Master Corps?), black amber Geo. W. Hoxsie`s Premium Beer from the Westford, CT glassworks, a six sided large cruet type bottle with a twisted off pontil, and a really crude teal demijohn with a pet mouse in it. I like glass from the Westford and Willington glassworks as they are close to my stomping grounds, and I`ve been after a Westford Hoxsie beer for a long time, and I finally found an affordable one! There are still good finds to be had out there, you just have to get out and look! Attachment (1) _____________________________ Always looking for anything Bixby: bottles, tins, boxes, trade cards, advertising, etc. Been collecting for 33 years and still don`t have enough of them! Also looking for early gas & steam engines, machinery, and Conn. drugstore bottles! Post #: 1

RE: Yesterday`s Flea Market Finds! - 7/5/2010 12:26:01 PM    Bixby Bill Posts: 342 Joined: 4/24/2009 From: Ellington, CT Status: offline Here`s a picture of the beer, not too fancy but a nice one anyways! Attachment (1) _____________________________ Always looking for anything Bixby: bottles, tins, boxes, trade cards, advertising, etc. Been collecting for 33 years and still don`t have enough of them! Also looking for early gas & steam engines, machinery, and Conn. drugstore bottles! (in reply to Bixby Bill) Post #: 2

RE: Yesterday`s Flea Market Finds! - 7/5/2010 12:30:37 PM    Bixby Bill Posts: 342 Joined: 4/24/2009 From: Ellington, CT Status: offline Here`s a picture of the really crude lip on the demijohn. It looks like they used the slag off of the top of the crucible to form the lip with. It had the remains of wicker on the bottle, but with the looks of that lip, I had to see what the bottle looked like. Thankfully the wicker was in rough shape so it didn`t hurt my conscience to remove it. Now I just need to remove the mouse from the bottom of it somehow! Attachment (1) _____________________________ Always looking for anything Bixby: bottles, tins, boxes, trade cards, advertising, etc. Been collecting for 33 years and still don`t have enough of them! Also looking for early gas & steam engines, machinery, and Conn. drugstore bottles! (in reply to Bixby Bill) Post #: 3

RE: Yesterday`s Flea Market Finds! - 7/5/2010 2:36:46 PM    woodswalker   Posts: 1048 Joined: 4/13/2010 From: South Haven, Michigan Status: offline Ewww good luck with that....it wasn't still alive was it?  I hate them nasty little creatures! _____________________________ Always enjoy nature to the fullest....what more could we want...birds singing and fresh air....AND Lots of neat stuff to always be found...One mans junk may be someone elses treasure :) (in reply to Bixby Bill) Post #: 4

RE: Yesterday`s Flea Market Finds! - 7/5/2010 3:56:03 PM    Bixby Bill Posts: 342 Joined: 4/24/2009 From: Ellington, CT Status: offline No, he isn`t. He found out long ago that it`s much easier to get into a bottle than it is to get out of one. I just hope he`ll fit through the neck. _____________________________ Always looking for anything Bixby: bottles, tins, boxes, trade cards, advertising, etc. Been collecting for 33 years and still don`t have enough of them! Also looking for early gas & steam engines, machinery, and Conn. drugstore bottles! (in reply to woodswalker) Post #: 5

RE: Yesterday`s Flea Market Finds! - 7/5/2010 6:47:29 PM    madpaddla Posts: 4036 Joined: 12/29/2005 From: The great state of New England Status: offline Excellent stuff Bill.  You sure snagged a few nice ones there.  That Westford bottle is sweeeet.  Congrats on the Keeper. _____________________________ Ebay stuff http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZspliffybigfeetQQhtZ-1 Best Radar from the VA - OH- ME. Excellent must SEE http://www.atmos.albany.edu/products/radarne/radarloop.htm (in reply to Bixby Bill) Post #: 6

RE: Yesterday`s Flea Market Finds! - 7/8/2010 1:05:15 AM    junkyard jack   Posts: 318 Joined: 3/23/2009 Status: offline Very nice finds. I really like that amber beer. (in reply to madpaddla) Post #: 7

RE: Yesterday`s Flea Market Finds! - 7/8/2010 10:18:16 AM    ijc.millikin.2014   Posts: 6 Joined: 7/4/2010 Status: offline you r right about the u.s.q.m.c. there are many different pottery and glass pieces that were made for them, i dug 5 coffee mugs with it etched on the bottom a while back, its weird how ornate ur decantur is tho but who's complaining rite (in reply to junkyard jack) Post #: 8

RE: Yesterday`s Flea Market Finds! - 7/8/2010 11:14:18 AM    Blackglass   Posts: 506 Joined: 10/26/2009 From: Grafton Co. New Hampshire Status: offline Its so ironic that you found a dead mouse inside that demijon, because last year I bought a demi about the same size as yours in aqua and there was a dead mouse in that one too! (in reply to ijc.millikin.2014) Post #: 9

RE: Yesterday`s Flea Market Finds! - 7/10/2010 10:20:30 PM    Dugout   Posts: 1556 Joined: 1/27/2008 Status: offline That lip makes me wonder what kind of a personality the guy had that applied it. It is awesome. (in reply to Blackglass) Post #: 10

RE: Yesterday`s Flea Market Finds! - 7/10/2010 10:55:05 PM    bottle_head9 Posts: 1084 Joined: 4/3/2009 From: new england Status: offline Awsome finds!! Love the beer and decanter. (in reply to Dugout) Post #: 11

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