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I can't find this clear green bottle information.

I believe Sitcoms is correct, most likely mineral water. The bottle was probably produced in a "turn mold", where the bottle is spun in the mold during blowing with the blowpipe, thus eliminating any mold seam. Turn mold bottle blowing was very unique. The closure looks like a "Baltimore Loop"...
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- Post #6
- Apr 16, 2024
- Forum: General Chat About Bottles
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Some beer, water, milk, or soda to help wash down the meat juice.

I couldn't resist commenting on this. As far as the meat juice goes, it's similar to what my father used to say about canned fruit cocktail. It's all the stuff they squeegee up off the floor at the end of the day.
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- Post #10
- Sep 13, 2023
- Forum: Digging and Finding
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Bequeathing a Coca-Cola bottle digging location in California

Anyone who is a Coca-Cola enthusiast, a digger, and who lives in the area might be interested in this. Ive been a lifelong bottle digger and collector, but my digging days are mostly behind me. When I was a kid my aunt gave me a book called "The Encyclopedia of Coca-Cola" because of my avid...
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- Thread
- Dec 15, 2021
- Replies: 4
- Forum: Digging and Finding
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Help with ID of slender, tall flint glass jar dug in Virginia City, Nevada

Thanks nhpharm! I was leaning toward pickled something or olives.
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- Post #3
- Sep 10, 2018
- Forum: What is it? Antique Bottles BEFORE 1900
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Help with ID of slender, tall flint glass jar dug in Virginia City, Nevada

Dug this jar/bottle in Virginia City, Nevada near where the old Incorporated Fire House was on B St. and am curious as to what it might be. Fairly sure it was made after 1900. It appears to be ABM made by the mold marks. It has small bubbles here and there. The only embossing is a number 3 on...
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- Sep 10, 2018
- Replies: 3
- Forum: What is it? Antique Bottles BEFORE 1900
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Help with ID of small green flasks embossed 1928

I've been a member for 7 years, but I've only viewed the website until this post. I'm hoping someone has seen these type of flasks somewhere before. They belong to a friend of mine who's father found them semi-buried in the corner of a Civil War era barn in Pennsylvania in the 1940's. He has...
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- Thread
- Sep 10, 2018
- Replies: 2
- Forum: What is it? Antique Bottles BEFORE 1900
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Olive green booze or beer? 3 Piece w/ pontil

Here is a bottle that I dug up, quite by accident, while doing levee work with an excavator at a duck club along the Southern Pacific Railroad right of way (now Union Pacific) in the Suisun Marsh, California. It is deep olive green, three piece mold with pontil. How I didn't break it is a...
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- Oct 24, 2011
- Replies: 1
- Forum: What is it? Antique Bottles BEFORE 1900
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Green glass flasks old or reproduction?

Thanks for all your replies. It sheds a little more light on the subject. Using Google Earth I found that Clevenger was located approximately 75 miles, as the crow flies, from where these were found, not that that means anything, but it is coincidental. I have another bottle which I'm seeking...
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- Post #5
- Oct 23, 2011
- Forum: Digging and Finding
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Green glass flasks old or reproduction?

A friend of mine has a number of glass flasks that he dug up from the dirt floor of a barn in Lancaster Pennsylvania in the late 1960's. They appear similar to "strap side" flasks, but the are not strap side, although they do have a very pronounced mold seam. They are approximately 5 inches...
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- Thread
- Oct 23, 2011
- Replies: 5
- Forum: Digging and Finding