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first finds of the season - 3/27/2006 8:56:37 PM    tazmainiendigger Posts: 969 Joined: 11/21/2003 From: State O Maine Status: offline Hi all! I had a couple free hours this afternoon and stumbled on a old cellar hole with a undug dump out in the woods! I can barely wait to see how this one pans out as the ground still has 3 to 4 inches of frost. I was able to probe parts of the swamp behind the dump as this area was soft.... the mud was full of glass yehawww! I only had a garden scratcher and my probe, I will have to go back when it's thawed with the long handled clam rake. Some of the things recovered are emerald green ground lip saftey valve canning jar, indian restoative bitters, plantation bitters large early case gin, Dr greenes, Hoods sarsaparilla,and a Nathan woods many of the bottles had been broken from years of frost but I know I will get a good one yet! Have a great week! Taz Attachment (1) Post #: 1

RE: first finds of the season - 3/27/2006 10:41:04 PM    downeastdigger Posts: 1129 Joined: 8/22/2005 From: Crawling through the mud and briars of Eliot Maine Status: offline Hey Taz, congrats on the nice finds. A nice way to start off the season. I walked five miles ( at least ) through the woods today, and came up empty. At one point, I was exhausted, and very lost, and came apon a river. I wound up having to walk across some rapids up to my waste in order to get back to my van. I called home on my cell phone to tell them where I was in case I didn't make it across, so they would know where to find my body when it washed ashore. Luckily I made it. No new bottle dumps though :(. Are you coming to the bottle show Sunday? I will buy that emerald green Safety valve jar from you !! It looks like a winner for sure !! Bram (in reply to tazmainiendigger) Post #: 2

RE: first finds of the season - 3/27/2006 11:01:23 PM    tazmainiendigger Posts: 969 Joined: 11/21/2003 From: State O Maine Status: offline Bram, Wouldn't miss it come hell or high water! lol Wendy and I are gonna bring a box or two of bottles. I am always looking for another ink to add to the collection so am getting rid of some decent bottles that dont fit in... See you for setting up with the boys..... Taz (in reply to tazmainiendigger) Post #: 3

RE: first finds of the season - 3/28/2006 1:16:47 AM    capsoda Posts: 7510 Joined: 11/15/2005 From: Seminole,Alabama, USA Status: offline Hey Taz, great finds. Those green fruit jars are hard to come by. Hey Bram, now is not the time to get washed away. I haven't had any lobster bisk or stew or what ever you make for saturday set up yet. _____________________________ 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 tazmainiendigger) Post #: 4

RE: first finds of the season - 3/28/2006 2:13:57 AM    madman   Posts: 4565 Joined: 2/5/2005 Status: offline hey taz nice hoods!! looks like youve got a winner!! mike (in reply to tazmainiendigger) Post #: 5

RE: first finds of the season - 3/28/2006 6:24:15 AM    bearswede Posts: 2906 Joined: 9/28/2004 From: western mass Status: offline Nice going, Taz... How far and where in relation to the cellar hole was the dump? I keep coming across these old cellar holes that appear to be immaculate... Not a scrap of trash anywhere!!! See you Saturday eve... Ron _____________________________ "I LOVE Wolfies!!!!!!!!!!!!" (in reply to tazmainiendigger) Post #: 6

RE: first finds of the season - 3/28/2006 8:15:02 AM    tazmainiendigger Posts: 969 Joined: 11/21/2003 From: State O Maine Status: offline Hi Ron, There are two sites at this old place, right outback... and about 200' away, the furthest spot looks the richest, it has a 3 sided stonewall enclosure with the open end dumping into a marshy area....... I got kinda bummed when I could not dig the first spot so thats when I wandered off and found this one!! Look like the bottles are from-1870-1920, I did bring home a cool 1917 maine porcelain liscense plate! Quite the rush finding a good dump it's like a bottle show in the ground! See you at the show... Attachment (1) (in reply to tazmainiendigger) Post #: 7

RE: first finds of the season - 3/31/2006 9:03:01 AM    tazmainiendigger Posts: 969 Joined: 11/21/2003 From: State O Maine Status: offline With the day time temps almost 70 the ice is leaving at my new diggn spot! Yesterday Wendy and I probed the swamp for a few behind the dump and came up with these sparkling beautys, Not big price taggers but alot of fun after a frozen winter! Enjoy! Taz Attachment (1) (in reply to tazmainiendigger) Post #: 8

RE: first finds of the season - 3/31/2006 9:05:40 AM    tazmainiendigger Posts: 969 Joined: 11/21/2003 From: State O Maine Status: offline Some of the better ones..... A Dr O. Phelps Brown Jersy City, N.J. and it's variant Dr O.P. Brown Jersy City Attachment (1) (in reply to tazmainiendigger) Post #: 9

RE: first finds of the season - 3/31/2006 9:07:36 AM    tazmainiendigger Posts: 969 Joined: 11/21/2003 From: State O Maine Status: offline Here is one I bet Sam would like F.E. Stevens, M.D. Pharmacist Main St Bridgeton, Me. Attachment (1) (in reply to tazmainiendigger) Post #: 10

RE: first finds of the season - 3/31/2006 9:10:56 AM    tazmainiendigger Posts: 969 Joined: 11/21/2003 From: State O Maine Status: offline OOoo ya another favorite, a crude applied lip whittled Mustang Liniment! So far all the big bottles have been broken. Have a good week and see you at the show!! Taz Attachment (1) (in reply to tazmainiendigger) Post #: 11

RE: first finds of the season - 3/31/2006 9:11:35 AM    Andyf   Posts: 98 Joined: 12/13/2005 From: Across the pond in England Status: offline Cool photos, they are really bright and clean..... Good luck! (in reply to tazmainiendigger) Post #: 12

RE: first finds of the season - 3/31/2006 9:20:32 AM    tazmainiendigger Posts: 969 Joined: 11/21/2003 From: State O Maine Status: offline Hi Andy, yes the bottles are quite clean as they all settled to the bottom of the clay, didnt move and had been soaking in ice cold spring water for 130 years! Most still had the cork in them and had to dump out the contents you could still smell the liniment! Taz (in reply to tazmainiendigger) Post #: 13

RE: first finds of the season - 3/31/2006 11:30:07 AM    bearswede Posts: 2906 Joined: 9/28/2004 From: western mass Status: offline Nice spot, Taz! Keep diggin'... Ron _____________________________ "I LOVE Wolfies!!!!!!!!!!!!" (in reply to tazmainiendigger) Post #: 14

RE: first finds of the season - 3/31/2006 11:37:31 AM    capsoda Posts: 7510 Joined: 11/15/2005 From: Seminole,Alabama, USA Status: offline Nice finds Jim. We do dig the Mustang liniments down south. _____________________________ 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 tazmainiendigger) Post #: 15

RE: first finds of the season - 3/31/2006 12:36:34 PM    Sam_MaineBottles Posts: 343 Joined: 4/5/2004 From: Mid-coast Maine Status: offline Hey Taz - Great looking bottles - I can't get over how clean they look! Your Bridgton med bottle is from Frank E. Stevens, in biz in Bridgton from 1888-1920+. He sold books, bicycles and fishing tackle in his store and he also bottled soda water. I have a later bottle from him that just says pharmacist. See you Sunday - Sam _____________________________ Author of 'Maine Bottlers and Their Bottles, 1840-1980' (in reply to tazmainiendigger) Post #: 16

RE: first finds of the season - 3/31/2006 1:39:12 PM    Slappy Posts: 21 Joined: 3/31/2006 Status: offline Very nice finds guys! I went yesterday and located a new site myself. I will post pictures of some good finds later. Gr8 Job! Good Luck! (in reply to tazmainiendigger) Post #: 17

RE: first finds of the season - 3/31/2006 9:47:19 PM    Unidumper   Posts: 64 Joined: 3/14/2006 From: Lincoln, NE Status: offline Beautiful group of bottles, I have a Mexican Mustang Linament bottle in the tumbler right now, hope it comes out as nice as yours looks, they are cool. Thanks for sharing. Steve (in reply to tazmainiendigger) Post #: 18

RE: first finds of the season - 4/9/2006 7:57:44 AM    tazmainiendigger Posts: 969 Joined: 11/21/2003 From: State O Maine Status: offline Well I was back to the swamp probing yesterday! It seems as though the upper dump at this location was burned and is a later date. There are some unusual early canning jars I will go after at a later date but things are still frozen! Grrrrrr! So on went the big rubber boots and in I went, man that water is cold! One good thing though when your hands freeze up they dont bleed as quickly ! I am gett'n pretty darn good with that probe as I can tell if they are broken or whole, in fact with a little more practice I could even read the embossing like brail under the mud.. Well anyway this is what I snagged yesterday, two differently embossed warner's safe cures a peacocky colored smelling salts, a very cool looks to be pontiled whiskey or beer in a awesome green, A Hunt's Remedy and a United States Medicine Co. also recovered was the usual baker's inks and Rawleighs not really worth the photograph.... Well off to dig the old farm dump today I gotta keep them fingers out of the water and let'm heal! haha and happy digg'n Taz Attachment (1) (in reply to tazmainiendigger) Post #: 19

RE: first finds of the season - 4/9/2006 8:57:59 AM    madpaddla Posts: 2532 Joined: 12/29/2005 From: The great state of New England Status: online TaZ: Great pics and bottles. Havent even found a Warners shard here. Great finds. Keep it comin and keep us posted. Helps me know what I want to search for. Thanks. Madpaddla < Message edited by madpaddla -- 4/9/2006 9:11:58 AM > (in reply to tazmainiendigger) Post #: 20

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