Wheelah23
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With school starting on Tuesday, I am trying to get in some last minute digging... []
I went digging today with Rob, who is apparently a good luck charm! I haven't found any good locals in the past few digs, so I was getting a little discouraged. But lo and behold, when I dug with him, a local blob popped out that I didn't have! It's a nice O. Kanouse blob from Montclair. Orlin Kanouse's the name, bottling's his game... [] Probably related to the Kanouse brothers in Oakland, but that's for another discussion. He was in business from 1890 to 1895, according to Tod's directory listings.
I got excited about this bottle before I even dug it, because it came out base first, and I could tell it was a blob because it had Karl Hutter on it. I got even more excited as more of it got revealed, and I could see it had TBNTBS on the back, in the configuration peculiar to the late 1880's, early 1890's blobs. Then my heart skipped a beat when I saw the embossing! It's not a particularly rare bottle, I think, but it's certainly a nice one, with the applied blob and strange, crude swirls in the glass. I knew it was mint when I dug it, because it came out of the rusty wet "bottle layer". Sure enough, I cleaned it off at home, and it's got no damage or stain! Can't ask for much more. Except that it's colored, or has a picture embossed... [8D] Anyway, I was very happy with it. The embossing's a tad weaker than the post 1895 bottles, because there were usually no mold vent marks used before then...
I went digging today with Rob, who is apparently a good luck charm! I haven't found any good locals in the past few digs, so I was getting a little discouraged. But lo and behold, when I dug with him, a local blob popped out that I didn't have! It's a nice O. Kanouse blob from Montclair. Orlin Kanouse's the name, bottling's his game... [] Probably related to the Kanouse brothers in Oakland, but that's for another discussion. He was in business from 1890 to 1895, according to Tod's directory listings.
I got excited about this bottle before I even dug it, because it came out base first, and I could tell it was a blob because it had Karl Hutter on it. I got even more excited as more of it got revealed, and I could see it had TBNTBS on the back, in the configuration peculiar to the late 1880's, early 1890's blobs. Then my heart skipped a beat when I saw the embossing! It's not a particularly rare bottle, I think, but it's certainly a nice one, with the applied blob and strange, crude swirls in the glass. I knew it was mint when I dug it, because it came out of the rusty wet "bottle layer". Sure enough, I cleaned it off at home, and it's got no damage or stain! Can't ask for much more. Except that it's colored, or has a picture embossed... [8D] Anyway, I was very happy with it. The embossing's a tad weaker than the post 1895 bottles, because there were usually no mold vent marks used before then...