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RE: I call these Jigsaw bottles does any one do this? o... - 6/28/2007 9:34:21 PM    portland med. man   Posts: 301 Joined: 2/25/2005 Status: offline the flask was a soldier cannon a little more grape capt. bragg. open pontil. and very rare in forest green . copper puce lists for 6.000 and i was told if it was whole it might have fetched 8.000 plus...... (in reply to RICKJJ59W) Post #: 41

RE: I call these Jigsaw bottles does any one do this? o... - 6/28/2007 9:39:33 PM    portland med. man   Posts: 301 Joined: 2/25/2005 Status: offline here`s another that i never found the pieces to but... can be repaired buy a pro..... this is a extremly rare local stoney creamer i`ve never seen one whole.... and it lists for 3000 whole 8 years ago.......found at a construction site laying on the surface.....http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v631/nitro04106/850.jpg (in reply to portland med. man) Post #: 42

RE: I call these Jigsaw bottles does any one do this? o... - 6/28/2007 9:44:47 PM    portland med. man   Posts: 301 Joined: 2/25/2005 Status: offline and one more to share with you is a killa poison that i sold a year or so ago which i thought was whole till i washed it... had nose sheared of which is commonan a few lip flakes ... thought it was your every day normal cobalt till i plucked it off the top of a dirt pile at a construction site.....i have a friend that aquired like 300 plus of these broken at one dig site most likely was the du,mping grounds for the glass house that was blowing them....he bought them to make lamps out of them.........http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v631/nitro04106/0496_1-1.jpg (in reply to portland med. man) Post #: 43

RE: I call these Jigsaw bottles does any one do this? o... - 6/28/2007 10:05:59 PM    RICKJJ59W Posts: 3670 Joined: 3/8/2007 From: Lehigh Valley US of A Status: offline Are you kidding me! 300 broken skull poisons? There close to 3 grand a peice,did you find any other whole ones? lamps? kinda small lamps?Rick _____________________________ My Web Page.Lots of pix. Dig story's published in Antique Bottle & Glass Collector. New story added 9/08 www.19thcenturybottlediggers.com Digs in action. http://www.flickr.com/photos/pitpirate/ (in reply to portland med. man) Post #: 44

RE: I call these Jigsaw bottles does any one do this? o... - 6/28/2007 10:26:41 PM    portland med. man   Posts: 301 Joined: 2/25/2005 Status: offline yes lamps kinda like tiffany lamps ..... i sell all my colored glass to him for like 5.00  a pound... i`ve sold him like 300 pounds of colored pontiled shards and he makes stuff out of it.... i aint got the time to so it`s easy cash for me....yes 300 skulls... i saw it with my own 2 eyes..........http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v631/nitro04106/IMG_0432.jpg (in reply to RICKJJ59W) Post #: 45

RE: I call these Jigsaw bottles does any one do this? o... - 6/29/2007 4:49:22 PM    RICKJJ59W Posts: 3670 Joined: 3/8/2007 From: Lehigh Valley US of A Status: offline OH OK I got you now, when we dug that 22 foot pit with the 10 foot use layer there was so much shards it was nuts! we gave them to the owners friend. she does the same thing makes pictures, and lamps, we had like 8 big trash cans full, you said 300 pounds of colored pontil shards, you must find a lottttttt of broken bottles to make up 300 pounds, that's crazy, what size pits are you digging? Rick _____________________________ My Web Page.Lots of pix. Dig story's published in Antique Bottle & Glass Collector. New story added 9/08 www.19thcenturybottlediggers.com Digs in action. http://www.flickr.com/photos/pitpirate/ (in reply to portland med. man) Post #: 46

RE: I call these Jigsaw bottles does any one do this? o... - 6/29/2007 9:56:44 PM    portland med. man   Posts: 301 Joined: 2/25/2005 Status: offline havent dug many privies. but have dug a 1000 dumps... to many up these ways.... alot of the times up here they had pans for the privies.... and or they where in a barn..... there are privies up these parts but they are hard to find u nless you are a pro........... i`ve stuck with the dumps cause there are still many good ones left........ here`s a stubby we dug up last year in this pontil dump cover with 1950 crap......http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v631/nitro04106/?action=view¤t=black.jpg (in reply to RICKJJ59W) Post #: 47

RE: I call these Jigsaw bottles does any one do this? o... - 6/29/2007 10:00:08 PM    portland med. man   Posts: 301 Joined: 2/25/2005 Status: offline got alot of good stuff out of this dump........... which is like 100 feet from a road and 60 feet behind the house........muddy diggin but well worth it........http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v631/nitro04106/?action=view¤t=pepery.jpg (in reply to portland med. man) Post #: 48

RE: I call these Jigsaw bottles does any one do this? o... - 6/29/2007 10:29:04 PM    RICKJJ59W Posts: 3670 Joined: 3/8/2007 From: Lehigh Valley US of A Status: offline NICE! now they are the kind of dumps I don't mine digging, I found a few old dumps in my day only problem is they where small, once you hit it its over, small ones behind old homes, if you find a town dump that old your in for some good digging, I read story's about huge dumps 20 feet deep in spots, going pontil, there is a few big dumps around here 1890s that's about it. Rick _____________________________ My Web Page.Lots of pix. Dig story's published in Antique Bottle & Glass Collector. New story added 9/08 www.19thcenturybottlediggers.com Digs in action. http://www.flickr.com/photos/pitpirate/ (in reply to portland med. man) Post #: 49

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