Some Stills to Go Along With Yesterday's Dig Videos...

[Staunton Dan]

Here are some stills from yesterday's dig. Some are firsts from this site. Some are just interesting and others are just bottles. Have a look...1st are 3 local sodas with Baltimore loop closures. One is shown dug in the 1st video posted earlier of me digging with my son, Kileigh.

 

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This insulator has a patent date of Jan. 25th 1870. It is threaded. Don't know when threaded insulators started coming into being but this has got to be fairly close to the date.

 

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Here's one of the better bottles of the day. They spelled the plural of lily as Lilys. Should be Lilies. I guess they didn't have enough room on the bottle.

 

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This, I believe, is the same Burnett that manufactured Cocoaine. Both say Boston. I wonder what came in this little bottle?

 

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This is one of the bottles that Kileigh is seen digging in the videos. It had a gooey substance in it that was hard to clean. Maybe cod liver oil, yuck! Note the unusual neck which is like an inverted cone. I don't recall noticing that configuration in a bottle before.

 

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Guild shoe dressing is always a fun bottle to dig even though they don't sell for much.

 

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Here's a bottle that I have only dug one of before and is extremely rare in this area. Tyree was the 1st black druggist in Staunton and this 3 partner drugstore probably pre-dated the one where Tyree was in business for himself. I'm thinking late 1880s for this bottle.

 

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Here's a Humphrey's Homeopathic medicine bottle. It is only the 2nd one that I have found. The 1st was smaller and amber.

 

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Here is an extremely small vial that possibly held a drug like morphine. It has a ground top and is the 1st whole one that I have ever found. As small as it is I think that you can see why. The penny is there for size comparison.

 

[Staunton Dan]

We found a lot of other bottles but they were either more common or they haven't been washed up yet. Here is a thin embossed whiskey flask that I feel is a good one. Who knows anything about it?