Selling my collection, mostly Canadian stuff, with a spattering of US meds & beers
I have about 300 + bottles, lots of sodas, inks, beers, milks, meds, stone gingers etc.
Would like to sell has a lot.
Some of it needs cleaning, has these are mostly dug bottles.
Perfect for...
After awhile you'll figure out what's good, if I dig a screw top that looks interesting I tend to keep it.
Mostly now ( after 40 years ) I just keep uncommon embossed bottles, or one's I haven't dug before, sodas etc
Although I do like the cobalt blues, whether screw or cork or slick...
Welcome aboard Nathan, keep the good posts coming, it looks from the pics that your on a bit of a ravine, you might want to start digging at the bottom and work in and up.
That way you could hit the older stuff, although the milks are always a good find.
Happy Digging
I've always being partial to the cobalt blue inks and poisons, the screw tops are after 1910 we get lots of cork top too.
I seem to find a couple or so every time I dig.
We tend to go deep into the ash, but when I think about it, most of our finds are in the first 3'.
So maybe we should go for length instead of depth, then it means moving trees and not ash!!
The Pilgrim with the Eagle are fairly common up here, but dark green with a blob top, not so much. And they used a wooden mold which leaves some nice whittling.
I think with all the construction on the Toronto waterfront, lots of bottles that used to be scarce, are now common.
But then...
If you go on the theory that every small town or village had a dump, then your bound to find virgin dumps.
Anyway thanks for posting the comments guys.