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    Digging dumps with hard soil? SW USA

    Aceite= Vinegar in Spanish.
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    Purple glass - nuking- sun exposure?

    I was finding bottles on the surface in Nevada, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico in the sixties. The desert was filthy with them. Many were a deep purple (or yellow), but they were exposed to constant and intense Nevada ultraviolet radiation for sixty or more years. Having been an active collector...
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    Lots of Bottles for sale.

    I will gladly take the Sparks bottle. Thank you!
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    I'll give you thirty bucks for it.

    I'll give you thirty bucks for it.
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    Rare Polar Tobacco sign dug by me in PA!

    Should have dug that fifty years ago.
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    Tilley's Summum Bonum Bitters.

    This bottle, a "Tilley's Summum Bonum bitters" is currently in the last hours on auction with the American Bottle Auctions site https://www.rtam.com/americanbottle/cgi-bin/BIDS.CGI. American Bottle Auctions claims it is in almost perfect condition. My question is a Tilley's Summum Bonum bitters...
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    my first ever attempt at a fancy antique/midcentury furnished room...

    I decorate my home in early Great Depression.
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    Privy diggers in southeastern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico

    My grandfather worked in the Eureka mines during the early part of the twentieth century. My father was born in Eureka, and I worked in the Bergen and Trixie mines while in my teens (early 1970s). I am always looking for Eureka and regional collectibles (Payson, Spring Lake, Santaquin, Silver...
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    Not a collector. An occasional finder. And seller.

    I'm new at this and I have been collecting old bottles since the golden age of bottle collecting--1968.
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    I got a rock

    I'll go with granite. The specimen is characteristic of intrusive igneous rocks and one can identify on visual inspection the quartzite inclusions formed in concert with two distinct kinds of feldspar (plagioclase and potassium-rich potash feldspar). As for origin, I'd call your orbicular rock a...
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    Privy diggers in southeastern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico

    One of my alter egos was present for a fleeting time in Many Waters.
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    Cures For Sale

    cordilleran2001@gmail.com
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    What are these for? I'm finding alot?

    The phials held assorted sizes of sewing needles for the new-fangled sewing machines.

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