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    Find a penny, pick it up....

    Re: My oldest and most valuable find to date: Nice. I wouldn't do anything more to it. Keep in mind when the green stuff comes off, it leaves behind ugly pits.Dug coins are corroded (aka "environmental damage") and do not have the same value you see in online guides. Likewise, those are retail...
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    Found a nice bottle dump today.

    I'd guess that C.P. Co. is Colgate Palmolive Company.
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    Fingers healed - Trying to post dive finds again :

    Like the finds. So have you ever freaked anyone out diving in these rivers? Do they see you surface, or see bubbles etc. and try to ask what you're doing? Or is it pretty much middle of nowhere?
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    How old is this place?

    Looks like steel liner in firebox, with steel lintel, and adjacent air vents.Looks like 20th century to me....maybe 1930s-1950s? Does not seem to be any large old trees in photos either.Lime mortar or portland cement mortar? Foundations look in fairly decent condition.Best bet is to research...
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    Rock pile Bottle 1870s privy any gusses?

    I'd guess it is a beehive. Honey is a pretty common cough medicine ingredient. Honey Tolu is one embossed beehive bottle I've seen a picture of online.
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    Archaeologists catch looter !! haha please

    For me, the issue is not whether the items were of historical value. It's that he apparently asked permission, was told no, and dug anyway. "Some guy called me two weeks ago and told me he collected old bottles and wanted to dig in there, but I told him no," said Daniel Cossette. "I told him...
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    Spring Privy Dig

    Seriously? You ever own anything before? Ever have someone take it without asking? Ever own property and have strangers come in and feel it's perfectly acceptable to take what they want from your land without asking? I have no kind words for anyone who'd do that to someone. It doesn't matter...
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    Bottle hunting in Guam

    Thank you for posting. I look forward to reading/seeing more. It's so different than what I've encountered.....coal ash/rust/crust/1920s stuff in New England.
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    A REAL CHRISTMAS MIRACLE! HUGE TREASURE CACHE FOUND!

    Never clean a silver coin that has collector value with a toothbrush or by wiping with your thumb or anything else. Silver is incredibly soft and toothbrushes will leave fine hairline scratches all over the coin. It might look ok to you, but it will never be able to be professionally graded and...
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    Michigan dig 10/21

    Do your pottery "hats" have crossed grooves on the bottom? They look like what someone on here once identified as carboy stoppers.
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    Little help on New York crock ?

    Google turns up a few results with that address or similar: HUDSON RIVER POTTERY L. Lehman & Co W. A. MacQuoid & Co. Pottery Works (1863–1879) You might try beginning your search with those companies.
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    Found on RI Shore

    The material looks like architectural cast stone....basically concrete cast in a mold. Often used for building cornices, architectural elements etc. Another possibility is cast stone lawn statuary type stuff....bird baths, wall caps, patio bench etc. Both of these types of things were extremely...
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    First Dive Finds of 2012 - Maine

    The Boston bottle is nice, even broken. I walk by Court Square every day on the way to work! The steamship stuff is awesome.
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    Totally Lost

    Your best bet is to research maps and local histories. This is a 1927 USGS map...the little black squares are house locations. These can be easily correlated to modern day maps, and the roads also give you likely areas to search. Visit a local library and look for local history books...they...
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    new dig dugged!

    Looks like Leominster or Fitchburg Massachusetts area. Dig this stuff for fun or sake of cleaning your property, but there's no value in damaged 1960s and 1970s stuff. Plenty of perfect examples exist. Once you get the new junk recycled, you might get into some good earlier stuff. Good luck.
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    Sundays Digging.....

    Thanks for the responses and commentary regarding the permission question. I think all of the breaking/entering that's going on around here in recent years (people looking for copper/scrap metal to strip & sell) makes neighbors very wary of any activity.
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    Sundays Digging.....

    The house looks unoccupied so you just start digging in their yard? No permission? Do that here and you get arrested or end up looking down the wrong end of a gun barrel.
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    sign

    The sign has glass cat's eye reflectors. The sign is easily worth $100-$150, and probably more with careful cleaning/restoration. Age is likely late 1930s to early 1950s.
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    Finally got digging today

    Nice stuff. The Jamaica Plain bottle is probably from Massachusetts. JP is part of Boston.
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    Crandall & codley perfecto fruit juices jar????

    Crandall & Godley 1870-1909 per this NY Times article. http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F50617FB395A12738DDDA90994D1405B898CF1D3

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