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How should I approach this?

I live down the road from you in Fairfax County (Herndon) and have been collecting bottles and digging for a long time. I have found some good dumps in Loudoun county. As others have wrote, privies on farms or rural areas can be hard to find. Also, look for trash pits, cisterns, ravines, old...
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- Post #21
- Dec 8, 2012
- Forum: Digging and Finding
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Rare? North Carolina Whiskey - Old Nick Whiskey Co, Williams, N.C.

Here's a close up of the embossing
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- Post #2
- Feb 29, 2012
- Forum: What is it? Antique Bottles BEFORE 1900
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Rare? North Carolina Whiskey - Old Nick Whiskey Co, Williams, N.C.

I was in Lancaster, PA a couple weekends ago and browsing through some antique shops and came across this bottle in a window. THE OLD NICK WHISKEY CO LOCK BOX No 26 WILLIAMS, N.C. ESTABLISHED 1768 I have never heard of Williams, NC and I used my phone to google the town. I doubt if I...
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- Feb 29, 2012
- Replies: 5
- Forum: What is it? Antique Bottles BEFORE 1900
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Sunday after church dig

Bill and Nic, What a way to start out the new year! Congrats. Unbelievable find! I think it's S-182.5 according to the 2003 Auction Price Report book that I have. Perhaps someone else that has the bitters books by Ring or Ham can confirm. All the other S-182 have no 'S after STEELE...
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- Post #27
- Jan 9, 2012
- Forum: Digging and Finding
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EASTERN SHORE KOLA-NUT COMPANY soda from Eastville VA

All, Thanks for the replies. I didn't make it back to that shop. Along with this bottle there were several Norfolk late teens into the 20s crowntop sodas. One of them I remember was a Bell with and embossed bell on the shoulder. If anyone wants the bottle, it was at a shop on Main St...
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- Post #6
- Jul 24, 2011
- Forum: Sodas - Embossed, Paper Label and ACLs.
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EASTERN SHORE KOLA-NUT COMPANY soda from Eastville VA

Here's the the pic from Worthpoint of the bottle.
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- Post #2
- Jul 21, 2011
- Forum: Sodas - Embossed, Paper Label and ACLs.
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EASTERN SHORE KOLA-NUT COMPANY soda from Eastville VA

Anyone familar with this soda? I saw one in an antique shop today. Price was good but it has a 3/4 inch bruise on the shoulder. I did find a link on Worthpoint to one on Ebay a few years ago. Eastville only has a population of 200 today and is on Virginia's Eastern Shore off of US 13 and...
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- Jul 21, 2011
- Replies: 5
- Forum: Sodas - Embossed, Paper Label and ACLs.
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Michigan Digging

Brian, I sent you a PM. I've been to one up in the Grayling area. I haven't much success exploring lumber camp sites in northwest L.P. but they are fun exploring . Haven't been able to find the dump or outhouse pit. A lot of them were disturbed during the '30s when the CCC planted pine...
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- Post #5
- Feb 17, 2010
- Forum: Digging and Finding
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Smith's Chill Syrup - Laurel Delaware medicine

All, thanks for all the replies. Gunther, Have you used these Annual patent reports in your research? There were hundreds of patent medicines (some I recognized) registered in the book that I found reference to this bottle...
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- Post #15
- Jan 22, 2010
- Forum: What is it? Antique Bottles BEFORE 1900
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Smith's Chill Syrup - Laurel Delaware medicine

Anyone hear of this small town Delaware medicine? Since he was a druggist I wouldn't be suprised if there were some drugstore bottles out there with his name. -Peter
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- Post #2
- Jan 20, 2010
- Forum: What is it? Antique Bottles BEFORE 1900
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Smith's Chill Syrup - Laurel Delaware medicine

I picked this medicine bottle up at an antique shop on Virginia's eastern shore while on vacation after Christmas with my wife. It's embossed Smith's Chill Syrup on one indented side panel and Laurel, Delaware on the opposite side panel. It's bluish aqua with tooled top and looks to be from...
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- Jan 20, 2010
- Replies: 17
- Forum: What is it? Antique Bottles BEFORE 1900
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New Find!!!!

Phil, Awesome find for you and Tom! Should win digger of the year by a mile in the Balt. club contest. I'm curious too, how it was decided who got to keep it. I guess that would be a good problem to have. Where was the cannon ball in relation to the Oneill's? Good thing they didn't...
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- Post #63
- Dec 10, 2009
- Forum: Digging and Finding
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Michigan Brick Linner

Brian, Tom, and Bill, Glad to see you guys out digging before the cold and snow hits. Looks like some fun pits. That was definitely a brickliner, it has all the characteristics. The ones I have seen in Baltimore can go 20 feet or more. We sometimes have run into water midway down, it...
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- Post #23
- Nov 13, 2009
- Forum: Digging and Finding
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Redware crock and chinese bowl dug in Baltimore privy

Red, Thanks for the info. The Brunks Auction site have sold a lot of chinese export or chinese style bowls and I saw the one that went for six figures. Matt, You may be right on the piece maker's mark, that had not occurred to me. This would be to keep track of how many pieces a person...
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- Post #12
- Sep 28, 2009
- Forum: Digging and Finding
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Redware crock and chinese bowl dug in Baltimore privy

Ok this time, here's the bottom of bowl.
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- Post #8
- Sep 26, 2009
- Forum: Digging and Finding