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    Greetings from St Louis

    Hi willong, thanks for the encouragement. To my knowledge the dump was uncovered during an excavation I’m assuming some years ago. Im not sure the person who gave these away was the digger; he said he had these bottles in his basement and gave them away because he has “too much stuff.” I’ve...
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    Greetings from St Louis

    This is awesome, thank you! I googled but couldn’t find anything.
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    Greetings from St Louis

    So try as I might, I cannot get a good picture but I think this is a pontil mark. What do you think?
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    Greetings from St Louis

    Underminer has a post here 3-30-22 new to the collection, my bottle is identical but WAY dirtier! I’ll look but I don’t think it has a pontil — but several of the bottles do. I feel really lucky to have them for free. Wish I had a digging buddy it would be so fun. I live in the oldest part...
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    Greetings from St Louis

    Yes, I read that Kopp’s Baby’s Friend had both 8% alcohol and a grain of morphine per dose. Poor kids! The Osgood‘s is really cool, in okay shape and from what I’ve researched is from 1841-1859, based on embossed Norwich Conn. Osgood moved his practice to New York in 1859 and later bottles are...
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    Greetings from St Louis

    More photos of my freebies
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    Greetings from St Louis

    I joined here to learn about old bottle collecting and have really enjoyed reading. Somewhere, lost in my basement, I have a small collection of medicine bottles, canning jars with glass lids, and swing-top beer bottles that I’ve acquired through the years. A couple weeks ago someone posted a...
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