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hemihampton

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Me & Tom usually get out & dig about 10-20 Privy's a year but this year has been very slow. We only dug 2 Privy's. Found some good bottles but not alot of good bottles. found lots of common bottles not pictured. We Ventured farther north of our usual spots. The whole area is all sand being near the lake. Right at the top 2 inches I dig a common Jar. Good sign. Then hits some glass shards as we go down. 2nd good sign was a Broken blob top but it looked to be from a 1870's Squat or Pony bottle. Not often we dig 1870's stuff. Then I git a whole one. A Trombly from Bay City Michigan. Then I dig a big giant Hutch, A Root Williston long tall skinny hutch, about 11 inches tall & Quart size. Some Pics below. LEON. P1040742.jpgP1040743.jpgP1040746.jpg




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After the Quart Hutch, Tom jumps in & digs a Killer bottle. A Oscoda Bottling works Quart size Blob. We never heard of the bottle & didn't know it even existed. I tried to do research on it but could not find much. From a very small obscure town with little population. We wonder'd how it got mixed in with the more common Bay City bottles we kept finding.P1040754.jpgP1040755.jpgP1040757.jpg
 

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Then, I pull out another A Trombly Bay City Squat from 1870's. The Quart Hutch has got to be from the 1880's since the first year for the Hutch was 1879. LEON.P1040761.jpgP1040762.jpgP1040763.jpg
 

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Seems like we dug about 10 Pumpkin seed liquor bottles, a coffin flask, about 3-4 embossed medicine bottles & another 3-4 not embossed & other misc. bottles. Being sand very hard to dig, the walLs kept fP1040764.jpgP1040765.jpgP1040766.jpgalling in on us. Tom wearing his Gilligan Hat..LEON.
 

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Awesome dig for sure! That sand can be a real pain...we have a lot of sand here in Texas and if it is even just a little wet it makes the hole almost impossible.
 

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good digging. only need those two or three nice ones to make the day.
 

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