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RE: SA dig 3 ... - 2/10/2012 5:36:47 PM   
surfaceone


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Some beers, bitters & a strange triangular Stearns bottle ~






Hey Dale,

Thanks for the dusted off preview. Is the strange guy American, Frederick Stearns & Co., Detroit?

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RE: SA dig 3 ... - 2/10/2012 8:21:29 PM   
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Status: offline 		cheers! great stuff there

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RE: SA dig 3 ... - 2/10/2012 9:12:20 PM   
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Status: offline 		nice finds! cool you found the stearns bottle, i grew up 50miles from detroit found them broken never dug one great finds !

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RE: SA dig 3 ... - 2/11/2012 2:23:36 AM   
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Status: offline 		One happy camper my friend. What a nice haul! how is that codd bottle?

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Probably the treasure of the dig ~ a sealed Dutch Case Gin "A C Nolet" of Schiedam ~ held by a tired but very happy digger!






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RE: SA dig 3 ... - 2/11/2012 3:53:50 AM   
GACDIG

 

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Status: offline 		Killer bunch of cool glass SA. How many Codds did you get ?

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RE: SA dig 3 ... - 2/11/2012 5:20:04 AM   
SAbottles

 

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Status: offline 		@ Surfaceone ~ thanks for the info on Stearns, fascinating. I can well remember Stearns Pine Tar & Honey !

@ Tony ~ not sure which one you mean , but see photo.

@ Glenn ~ 11 altogether, 3 10oz & 8 6 oz - though one of the latter is a bit twisted. Also one Belfast (round bottom) one large Hamilton & one small internal screw Spa Water. And 1 large & 3 small blob top sodas (sometimes called flat-bottomed Hamiltons.)






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RE: SA dig 3 ... - 2/11/2012 5:23:14 AM   
SAbottles

 

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Status: offline 		Here is some of the stoneware/ceramic stuff , some of the other bits are still unwashed:
the ginger beer (on the left) is incised & comes from Croyden , UK.





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RE: SA dig 3 ... - 2/11/2012 6:09:15 AM   
TROG

 

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Status: offline 		Hi Dale,

Well done on some great finds and in one foul swoop you have found more codds than I have in total in the last 20 years.

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RE: SA dig 3 ... - 2/11/2012 7:03:11 AM   
SAbottles

 

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Status: offline 		Good grief David, I thought they were fairly common over there !

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RE: SA dig 3 ... - 2/11/2012 10:26:33 AM   
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Status: offline 		Looking great already.  What is that little ink in the last picture?  It look like it has pen rests.  Is it a sheared lip?  Nice stuff!!  I bet you're tickled.

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RE: SA dig 3 ... - 2/11/2012 11:22:07 AM   
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Status: offline 		I believe that Stearns & Co bottle is actually considered a medicine? I think it contained Cod Liver Oil or something of that sort. Dug one identical to it years ago except that it's only about 3-4 inches tall (sample size). Thought it was a sample whiskey when I dug it! LOL

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RE: SA dig 3 ... - 2/11/2012 1:06:30 PM   
SAbottles

 

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Status: offline 		Hi, Chris; yes pretty sure it was a medicine ~ as I said I remember taking Stearns Pine Tar & Honey, which was a throat or cough medicine.

@ Lauren ~ the little green bottle is a "boat" ink - so called because the neck looked like a little funnel and the dips on each side were pen rests. It has a rough "burst" lip - the cork dug into this & was covered with a blob of wax. The most common were aqua, then green, light blue, cobalt blue & the rarest were amber brown. I have only handled about 5 amber boat inks in 30 yrs of digging !

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RE: SA dig 3 ... - 2/12/2012 11:24:48 AM   
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These are SA Breweries beers with quite nice embossing ~






Great job on the dig Dale! These SA beers are very cool.... Nice to be finding stuff, Nice Gin bottle too.

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RE: SA dig 3 ... - 2/13/2012 1:00:30 AM   
surfaceone


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Status: offline 		Hey Dale,

Did you see This Story?

Is it Monday yet?


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RE: SA dig 3 ... - 2/13/2012 9:49:03 AM   
SAbottles

 

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Status: offline 		Yo, Surface ~ yes it is Monday (I think!) yes I did see the story, but they won't let me dig there , sniff

This story now continues in SA dig 4 ... (hold your breath!)

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