This one is supposed to be pretty rare. According to some friends whose been into bottles several years its as good as a Coke hutch.I don't want to let it go, but for the right price I'll say my goodbye to it. It's on ebay right now.
This is part of the Ensley Alabama 1907 dump. It was discovered about 8 months ago when we were digging in a spot that was producing 1910 stuff and a gut instinct told me to look to the south. Finally I listened and looked around low and behold the mother sighn in Alabama for old dumps appeared...
We all dig bottles with different town names on them, and some we may know like a coca cola hutchinson and some we may not know. My point is this: If I dig a blob top from Petersburg Ohio me being from Birmingham Alabama, I do not know anything about the bottle who made it how rare is it and so...
Hey I live on the outskirts of Birmingham, and I have run into the same problem of the dumps being all dug out. I have been doing research trying to find the older dumps but have not been able. I would love to dig a dump that has not been dug yet if you might have some clues to where other dumps...
Does anyone know about Higea out of Pensacola Fl.? I have a straight sided coke with both coca cola and Higea embossed on it. I have a Hutch Higea with a C on the bottom of it.
Hey if there is anyone from Alabama I want to let you know there is a bottle show in Tuscaloosa July 14th. Hit me with a message if you need some info and I'll get back with you.
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I will be there. I dig in bhm and I heard that you guys in mobile dig the pots and we dig the lids to the white crock pots. I don't know if this is true I've only been digging about 6 months...
I hope this will help some of you fellow southerners out. It's Alabama Maps that date back as far as the early 1820's and as late as the 1890's in the historical map index on this link http://alabamamaps.ua.edu.com Thanks Jason
The old man who has the maps just sent his son in law a map of mobile in the late 1800's he said it showed steets and all. I will ask him if he can get a copy made sometime this week.
If anyone needs old maps from the mid to late eighteen hundreds for bottle dump research in alabama let me know. I have access. I recently started digging about four months ago, and I know how important old maps can be in locating old dumps...