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my maine stoneware collection - 1/18/2012 11:00:26 AM    MaineMtnDigger   Posts: 123 Joined: 10/14/2009 From: Woodstock, ME. Status: offline I don't have a whole lot, but then again there hard to come by Attachment (1) Post #: 1

RE: my maine stoneware collection - 1/18/2012 11:12:36 PM    downeastdigger Posts: 3159 Joined: 8/22/2005 From: Crawling through the mud and briars of Eliot Maine Status: offline thanks for the pic and the post. I'm wondering if that photo shows the greatest Maine stoneware bottle collection in existence/ It's something you dont often see, I've never dug one, just a few NH ones. Where do you dig? Way up north, or mid state _____________________________ Bram Get busy diggin, or get busy dyin' These photos show why you can never go bottle digging in New England, and come home "empty" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxpURSe0BBk&feature=related (in reply to MaineMtnDigger) Post #: 2

RE: my maine stoneware collection - 1/19/2012 10:30:47 AM    MaineMtnDigger   Posts: 123 Joined: 10/14/2009 From: Woodstock, ME. Status: offline I think sam has alot more than I do... in fact I know he does and theres a guy I think in NY that collects Maine SW that has alot himself. But your right they are real hard to come by, but I'm goning to keep plugin along picking them up one by on In case any one elsa reads this I forgot to list what they are l to r front first are BF haley, california pop beer-Biddford ME A.B Robinson-bangor ME F.C. Brackett-Bangor ME Ingalls Bro- Portland ME Charles Barbour-Lewiston ME C.C. Haley- Lewiston ME G.H. Winn- Portland ME C.S. Smalls Root- Portland ME D@P- Bangor ME < Message edited by MaineMtnDigger -- 1/19/2012 10:37:19 AM > (in reply to downeastdigger) Post #: 3

RE: my maine stoneware collection - 1/19/2012 11:02:32 AM    surfaceone Posts: 7118 Joined: 12/9/2008 Status: offline Hello Jon, Thanks for posting the picture, and coming back and listing the usual suspects. I'd love to see more photos and learn more about the bottles and their makers. There's gotta be some stories on how you acquired them... From. (in reply to MaineMtnDigger) Post #: 4

RE: my maine stoneware collection - 1/19/2012 12:29:27 PM    epackage Posts: 9792 Joined: 5/3/2009 From: Jersey Status: online Nice group of stones....congrats....Jim _____________________________ I WANT PATERSON NJ BOTTLES !! Being NICE for the SAKE of OTHERS !!! (in reply to surfaceone) Post #: 5

RE: my maine stoneware collection - 1/19/2012 1:33:20 PM    MaineMtnDigger   Posts: 123 Joined: 10/14/2009 From: Woodstock, ME. Status: offline Unfortunately I can't say that I found any of them, In fact I bought them all. I've found stoneware bottles in the past but some reason stoneware stuff hardly survives up here in the elements. The closest I have come to finding a Maine stoneware beer is a D.I. Deland bottle that had its top broken off. I collect most typs of Maine bottles, it just so happens that the Maine stoneware beer bottles are easier to come by and are cheaper than the pontil meds from here. I've gotten to the point with the meds that they are becoming supper rare and costly. P.S. I'll post better pics of the bottles tommorow. Maybe I'll do somthing on my entire Maine colletion. (in reply to epackage) Post #: 6

RE: my maine stoneware collection - 1/19/2012 11:02:42 PM    nhpharm   Posts: 146 Joined: 4/24/2007 Status: offline That is very neat! This is my New Hampshire stoneware bottle collection...still missing several but have found quite a few. Never dug one...not even a broken one. Attachment (1) (in reply to MaineMtnDigger) Post #: 7

RE: my maine stoneware collection - 1/20/2012 7:01:23 PM    surfaceone Posts: 7118 Joined: 12/9/2008 Status: offline Hey Jon, Who's the guy in the front row, 3rd from left, Albany Slip? Could'ya get all closeup and personal with that guy in particular, just now, but if you have the inclination, please put up some portrait photos, perhaps detailing the impressing and interesting bits, please and thank you. You, too, please Brandon, No wonder you keep those under lock and key! Is that a cobalt decoration on the ninth man from the left? Who is that next to him, on our right? Whattayuz know about the potters in the area? Further introductions to the principal players, I think is in order. I'm a fool for the impressing and incising. Would you gentlemen indulge me, please. Stoneware bottles possess a particularly personal connection for me. From. They're all uniquely handmade. Time and tide etch their marks in their finishes. I like em! "Basket of Flowers Taft & CO NH Stoneware Jug" From. (in reply to MaineMtnDigger) Post #: 8

RE: my maine stoneware collection - 1/20/2012 7:08:14 PM    nhpharm   Posts: 146 Joined: 4/24/2007 Status: offline More photos...a few of these may or may not be NH... Attachment (1) (in reply to surfaceone) Post #: 9

RE: my maine stoneware collection - 1/20/2012 7:08:44 PM    nhpharm   Posts: 146 Joined: 4/24/2007 Status: offline More Attachment (1) (in reply to nhpharm) Post #: 10

RE: my maine stoneware collection - 1/20/2012 7:09:15 PM    nhpharm   Posts: 146 Joined: 4/24/2007 Status: offline More Attachment (1) (in reply to nhpharm) Post #: 11

RE: my maine stoneware collection - 1/20/2012 7:09:44 PM    nhpharm   Posts: 146 Joined: 4/24/2007 Status: offline The last... Attachment (1) (in reply to nhpharm) Post #: 12

RE: my maine stoneware collection - 1/20/2012 7:10:26 PM    nhpharm   Posts: 146 Joined: 4/24/2007 Status: offline The ones marked DF are all Daniel Ford from Dover, NH. (in reply to nhpharm) Post #: 13

RE: my maine stoneware collection - 1/20/2012 7:22:17 PM    Wheelah23 Posts: 4270 Joined: 8/9/2010 From: Glen Ridge, New Jersey Status: online quote: ORIGINAL: nhpharm More You gotta tell us what that droopy one says. Do I see "JULY 1762"? Very cool stuff by the way. I love stoneware beers, I've never seen a local one yet. _____________________________ Looking for bottles from Glen Ridge, Montclair, Bloomfield, Orange, East Orange, West Orange, South Orange, and if I like 'em, any other bottles from Essex County NJ! Also Manahawkin NJ! Message me if you want to find them a new home. (in reply to nhpharm) Post #: 14

RE: my maine stoneware collection - 1/20/2012 7:44:52 PM    MaineMtnDigger   Posts: 123 Joined: 10/14/2009 From: Woodstock, ME. Status: offline I just tried taking more photos and I was only able to take one and ran out of juice. I gotta get more AA's tomorrow when I go to town. As far as potters here in Maine I'm only familar with one that is The Gardner Stoneware Co. I'm not sure if they made bottles or not, I'm not really the athority on stoneware here in Maine. This one pic is from Bangor Me. the one you asked about. Attachment (1) < Message edited by MaineMtnDigger -- 1/20/2012 7:46:34 PM > (in reply to Wheelah23) Post #: 15

RE: my maine stoneware collection - 1/20/2012 8:23:17 PM    surfaceone Posts: 7118 Joined: 12/9/2008 Status: offline Thanks Jon, I really like that Brackett "Pop"! I should think an early use of the term "Pop." Was it beer or soda? Bracket was paying into the Bangor treasury in 1891. "F. C. Brackett, paid sundry bills 453.82" From. What more do you know on this guy? How'd you come by it? Interestingly, but perhaps unrelated; there was a Geo. E. Brackett who was the editor of the monthly "Temperancce Record, Brackett & Co., Publishers" From. (in reply to MaineMtnDigger) Post #: 16

RE: my maine stoneware collection - 1/20/2012 9:54:47 PM    nhpharm   Posts: 146 Joined: 4/24/2007 Status: offline Wheelah23, That says Pat July 17, 66 (for patented July 17, 1866). (in reply to Wheelah23) Post #: 17

RE: my maine stoneware collection - 1/21/2012 12:17:20 PM    MaineMtnDigger   Posts: 123 Joined: 10/14/2009 From: Woodstock, ME. Status: offline All I know is what is written in Sam Fuller's book on maine sodas and beers and this is what he saids, Frank C Bracket, Bangor Dates 1875-76 Soda, Spruce Beer Notes Driver for A.B. Robinson (1873), prop. of Bangor Ice Co. (1879-80), 2 Noromberga Mkt., moved to Waterville Me. in 1877 see Brackett in Waterville, stoneware and blob top squat bottles, pics. on inside front cover pg. 148 So according to Sam this bottle could either be Bangor or Waterville. The other bottles that you wanted up closes on are going to be posted with this one and others below as well. Attachment (1) (in reply to nhpharm) Post #: 18

RE: my maine stoneware collection - 1/21/2012 12:17:49 PM    MaineMtnDigger   Posts: 123 Joined: 10/14/2009 From: Woodstock, ME. Status: offline 1 Attachment (1) (in reply to MaineMtnDigger) Post #: 19

RE: my maine stoneware collection - 1/21/2012 12:18:26 PM    MaineMtnDigger   Posts: 123 Joined: 10/14/2009 From: Woodstock, ME. Status: offline 2 Attachment (1) (in reply to MaineMtnDigger) Post #: 20

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