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    Dump Discoveries - Two separate dumps, one location - one 1920s/30s, one 40s-60s

    Quite the assortment of old goodies you are finding in those two dumps Sitcoms! I find the enameled Gulf sign, souvenir tea cup, T. Noonan & Co. toiletry, the amber Pepsi of course, the letter-holder dog :D and others quite interesting. Others items are a nostalgia trip for me as I consumed or...
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    Interesting bottle and contents find at George Washington's Mount Vernon Estate!

    https://www.newsbreak.com/videos/3414735998996-archeologists-begin-studying-18th-century-bottles-of-cherries-discovered-at-mt-vernon-estate?noAds=1&_f=app_share&s=i3
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    Once in a lifetime? Moral of the story never overlook fallen tree stumps

    Nice soda, though it's too bad about the crack. It looks like there is enough intact glass above the slug plate to salvage a nice whiskey double-shot glass from the bottle.
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    Old whisky bottle find

    I like it and its unusual form and simple ringed neck/lip. It has a tooled finish (was handmade). Almost certainly made prior to 1910 (definitely before WW1*) and I'd guess closer to 1890s. I found one like it in association with a turn-of-20th century logging camp in WA. * That hint of...
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    Marbles I found on my antique landfill

    Is it accessible with a backhoe :p?
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    Another mystery bottle from the Atlantic.

    Bulbous necks were frequently seen on beer and ale bottles, but the tall proportions of your find lead me more in the direction of a container for liquor such as brandy. I agree with others that it is likely of European origin.
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    Atlanta- Digging in my yard/Superfund site

    Welcome to the forum! That Brandi Mist bottle certainly caught my eye. My own interest lies more with earlier, blown-in-mold, hand finished bottles. (You'll see "BIM" acronym or BIMAL, with the "AL" referring to Applied Lip, used frequently by bottle diggers and collectors as a shorthand to...
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    I Can See For Miles and Miles and Miles....

    I don't perceive in the photo such a pronounced and distinctive transition as you describe. However, I can speculate that such appearance might simply result from thicker glass material in the lower third of the bottle.
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    Light box photos.

    All are quite nice! The bottom-illuminated ones are my favorites. I think they might be even nicer if bottle was positioned over hole(s) through the board sized close to, but smaller than, the outer diameter of bottle(s).
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    Back to the Cellar Hole Full of Bottles

    It did break; but it also cleaned up enough to be legible. Watch the video Leon; it's a beer sign!
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    Bottle collecting for over 50 years and cannot ID this one

    Well, 3" diameter seems much too big for a doorknob. I guess that has me weighing-in on the inkwell theory. That opening is certainly large enough for an actual feather quill pen. If the largest diameter area (moving up from the base) transitions into a somewhat concave profile forming a...
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    Hey Everyone, just joined and found this bottle

    Found a fair number of them in WA too, especially on a site near Stanwood that had a shingle mill on it turn-of-century. I most often see the style attributed to being "English Ale" bottle.
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    Bottle collecting for over 50 years and cannot ID this one

    In the photos that I see, an opening "...only .25 inches in diameter" doesn't seem in-scale with a three-inch overall diameter. Could you double-check your measurements please? In the third photo, are those internal threads visible through the glass near the bottom of an internal void? If so, I...
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    Newbie help

    I still have the first embossed, cork-closure Clorox bottles that I found, but that is only because I find it difficult to discard of anything that reminds me of good times prowling through forests half-a-century ago. Additionally, when I found those bottles in 1970 or '71, I was into film-based...
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    Dream Dig: Barrel bitters dug from an incredible dump!

    Oh man! The envy bug bites again! Wonderful dig; thanks for sharing!
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    Today finds

    Yes, I believed you. I should have written: "Kinda thought that myself, but was not sure." instead of "Kinda thought that myself, but not sure." Unfortunately, I was in a hurry and did not take the time to edit my post, so it might have read like I was questioning your identification of the...
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    Digging dumps with hard soil? SW USA

    Thanks. I'm just trying to help some people relatively new to evaluating a site with some things I realized ages ago. Having worked in a number of fields over a lifetime, I've earned that not everyone views situations in the same manner. I've even embarrassed myself by not seeing "obvious"...
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    Today finds

    Kinda thought that myself, but not sure.
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    Finds from a Hawaiian forest

    Let me revise the coordinates (I had to look at historical aerial photos to get more precise location of where we actually dug in '70 and '71) to: 47.64459 -122.29869
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    Finds from a Hawaiian forest

    Since you like shards, there is a site in Seattle (see Lat/Lon coordinates below) that you might want to check out while you are in the area if it is convenient to you. There was a turn of the 20th Century landfill in the Montlake neighborhood. Trash was dumped into marshes of Lake Washington...

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