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RE: My 1860s Privy Dig! Some Real Rare Bottles found! - 1/9/2006 12:10:27 AM    capsoda Posts: 9832 Joined: 11/15/2005 From: Seminole,Alabama, USA Status: offline WOW Tom, those are some really great finds. Now if you could just do that twice a month. Hey Wayne, I thought you were gonna throw out some of those rocks? I dare ya. Email me and explain why you prefer steel tanks. _____________________________ Warren Diggin down in Dixie, USA Work is for people who don't dig bottles President, Panhandle Cruisers http://www.panhandlecruisers.org/ http://www.bornagainamerican.org (in reply to Bottleman) Post #: 21

RE: My 1860s Privy Dig! Some Real Rare Bottles found! - 1/9/2006 12:12:05 AM    capsoda Posts: 9832 Joined: 11/15/2005 From: Seminole,Alabama, USA Status: offline Hey Tom, What are those fancy bulbous bottles? _____________________________ Warren Diggin down in Dixie, USA Work is for people who don't dig bottles President, Panhandle Cruisers http://www.panhandlecruisers.org/ http://www.bornagainamerican.org (in reply to Bottleman) Post #: 22

RE: My 1860s Privy Dig! Some Real Rare Bottles found! - 1/9/2006 6:43:25 AM    bearswede Posts: 3191 Joined: 9/28/2004 From: western mass Status: offline quote: I ain't goin diggin in PA>>> You mean you ain't goin diggin in PU... ROR _____________________________ "I LOVE Wolfies!!!!!!!!!!!!" (in reply to southern Maine diver) Post #: 23

RE: My 1860s Privy Dig! Some Real Rare Bottles found! - 1/9/2006 7:36:45 AM    Miles   Posts: 324 Joined: 9/6/2005 From: New York Status: offline That's a bottle digger's dream, nice stuff! (in reply to capsoda) Post #: 24

RE: My 1860s Privy Dig! Some Real Rare Bottles found! - 1/10/2006 4:26:17 PM    Bottleman Posts: 936 Joined: 9/3/2004 From: Central Pennsylvania Status: offline Capsoda, I couldn’t tell you what those bubbly bottles are because they are unmarked. One has a smooth lip, one has a sheared lip and the other has a ground lip. The way the bases are shaped, I am thinking they may have gone in a holder for spices or something. When I first dug the white bottle in the picture I thought it may have been a snuff bottle but a few weeks later when I went back to the already filled in hole I found the top to it laying on the surface. I glued it back on and it turned out to me a milk glass medicine. (in reply to Bottleman) Post #: 25

RE: My 1860s Privy Dig! Some Real Rare Bottles found! - 1/10/2006 5:57:54 PM    Jules   Posts: 191 Joined: 9/16/2003 From: NE Pennsylvania Status: offline So. I suppose mentioning I have an 1860's farmhouse (in Northeastern PA at that) that hasn't been dug would rather be like waving a red flag in front of a bull after this post string? I've stuck to dump digging thus far, been putting off digging the Privvy as I've never attempted one before, don't have a probe and don't know anyone local with privvy digging experience. Just Checkin'.... ~Julie (in reply to capsoda) Post #: 26

RE: My 1860s Privy Dig! Some Real Rare Bottles found! - 1/26/2009 9:55:54 PM    tigue710 Posts: 4136 Joined: 7/11/2007 From: connecticut - nor cal Status: offline digging through the archives... _____________________________ •={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•= (in reply to Bottleman) Post #: 27

RE: My 1860s Privy Dig! Some Real Rare Bottles found! - 1/26/2009 10:16:51 PM    privvydigger Posts: 2597 Joined: 7/16/2006 From: Heart of the Coal Regions Status: offline Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh....I cant wait........bbbrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.... nice digs _____________________________ thx privvydigger gtr'dug Collector of all Coaldale & Lansford, And love digging Summit Hill, Mauch Chunk & Tamaqua, Pa. sodas, beers, milks..... (in reply to tigue710) Post #: 28

RE: My 1860s Privy Dig! Some Real Rare Bottles found! - 1/26/2009 10:25:44 PM    Bottleman Posts: 936 Joined: 9/3/2004 From: Central Pennsylvania Status: offline Man tigue, you must have been searching deep in the archives, this was from back in 2005. lol. It’s nice to take a look back on some older digs though. It brings back good memories just looking at the pics. ~Tom (in reply to privvydigger) Post #: 29

RE: My 1860s Privy Dig! Some Real Rare Bottles found! - 1/26/2009 10:54:29 PM    tigue710 Posts: 4136 Joined: 7/11/2007 From: connecticut - nor cal Status: offline that was a sweet dig... when things get slow both on and off the forum I go digging in the past! _____________________________ •={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•={•}=•= (in reply to Bottleman) Post #: 30

RE: My 1860s Privy Dig! Some Real Rare Bottles found! - 1/27/2009 8:17:20 AM    Stardust Posts: 3653 Joined: 10/5/2007 From: Boston, MA ~ ; ) Status: offline Very, very, sweet finds bottle man you lucky duck! _____________________________ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9vBsIQ2_Ic http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okKWzl3jCrM *´¨) ¸.·´¸.·*´¨) ¸.·*¨) (¸.·´ (¸.·' * Stardust.·´ (in reply to tigue710) Post #: 31

RE: My 1860s Privy Dig! Some Real Rare Bottles found! - 1/27/2009 10:01:40 AM    wedigforyou Posts: 181 Joined: 7/29/2007 Status: offline Hey Jules, don't feel badly about not digging that privy.  Farmhouse privys don't usually hold much in the line of bottles.  The farmers had plenty of woods and dump areas to throw their garbage and ashes.  At least that's been our experience.  It's the in town privys that hold the goods. (in reply to Jules) Post #: 32

RE: My 1860s Privy Dig! Some Real Rare Bottles found! - 1/28/2009 10:07:51 AM    brokenshovel   Posts: 692 Joined: 8/29/2005 From: Westminster Maryland Status: offline Here's the privy diggers arch nemesis circa 1890. What could not be sucked out was scooped out then off to the city dock where the contents were loaded onto a scow and glass and other recyclable objects were removed. Attachment (1) < Message edited by brokenshovel -- 1/28/2009 10:16:33 AM > (in reply to southern Maine diver) Post #: 33

RE: My 1860s Privy Dig! Some Real Rare Bottles found! - 1/28/2009 10:16:18 AM    brokenshovel   Posts: 692 Joined: 8/29/2005 From: Westminster Maryland Status: offline The scows then went to several locations and sold off the sludge for farmer's fertilizer.  The water dumps around Balto are from the separation of glass and other man made materials from the sludge that were not removed dockside.  From my research and inspection it appeared that there were holding areas where the scows docked and the sludge was off loaded.  I also think there may have been some sorting while at sea and bottles and junk that the sludge man would not take were just kicked off the scows into the rivers or thrown in other holding areas next to the sludge holding area. Attachment (1) < Message edited by brokenshovel -- 1/28/2009 10:25:48 AM > (in reply to brokenshovel) Post #: 34

RE: My 1860s Privy Dig! Some Real Rare Bottles found! - 1/28/2009 10:38:38 AM    Oldtimer Posts: 2508 Joined: 5/13/2004 From: Effingham NH. Where else? Status: offline Darn! You guys dug more and better stuff in ONE DIG than I have in 15 years. I envy you privy diggers. Up here, it's surface dumps and antique shops...or diving, which isn't for me, being as how I dislike drowning. I would have been satisfied with finding the Schoolhouse ink, never mind the rest! Congrats! _____________________________ STOP THE CAR !! I think I see a cellarhole !!! Oh Well...... (in reply to southern Maine diver) Post #: 35

RE: My 1860s Privy Dig! Some Real Rare Bottles found! - 1/28/2009 10:41:26 AM    RICKJJ59W Posts: 11837 Joined: 3/8/2007 From: Lehigh Valley US of A Status: offline Cool pic of the privy sucking apparatus.There is a ton of info in Digger Odell's book "Privy secrets and little know facts" about the night men who cleaned out  the pits we dig.If only the night crawler's  knew, that one day,someone would re dig the crap holes they cleaned out  for fun! They would roll over in there graves! _____________________________ My web site. Lots of privy and dump dig pictures. Also dig story's I had published in Antique Bottle & Glass Collector magazine and Western & Eastern Treasure's www.19thcenturybottlediggers.com (in reply to brokenshovel) Post #: 36

RE: My 1860s Privy Dig! Some Real Rare Bottles found! - 1/28/2009 11:09:03 AM    Lordbud   Posts: 2295 Joined: 6/16/2005 From: San Jose Status: offline Great finds. I dug a 12-foot privy along with Mr. Bright in Mountain View just packed with bottles back in the late 1980s. Of course most of the bottles were TOC slicks tossed back into the hole, but there were some really nice keepers too. Those are digs you never forget. (in reply to southern Maine diver) Post #: 37

RE: My 1860s Privy Dig! Some Real Rare Bottles found! - 1/28/2009 11:44:54 AM    glass man Posts: 7732 Joined: 1/30/2008 From: GEORGIA Status: offline LOVE THE CATHEDRAL PICKLE AND YES I DREAM OF A SCHOOL HOUSE INK! WAY TO GO! JAMIE _____________________________ LET NOT YOUR HEART BE TROUBLED ! IF YOU NEED A BLESSING OR A SONG THAT WILL PICK YOU UP PLEASE LISTEN TO THIS SONG FROM"VAN THE MAN"MORRISON! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qi4R2YXv_AE (in reply to southern Maine diver) Post #: 38

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