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Green Nugrape

Very cool find! My brother lives in a condo in the original Nugrape headquarter offices in Atlanta. A developer converted the old brick headquarters building into about 20 very unique units some years ago.
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- Post #7
- Jul 11, 2018
- Forum: General Chat About Bottles
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Unexpected Jobsite Find

The same thing I do with the mineral specimens and crystals I dig myself: put them on a shelf in nice natural light so I can look at them periodically and cherish the fact that I found them myself.
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- Post #31
- Jul 30, 2017
- Forum: What is it? Antique Bottles BEFORE 1900
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Unexpected Jobsite Find

Bottle porn right here:
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- Post #29
- Jul 29, 2017
- Forum: What is it? Antique Bottles BEFORE 1900
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Unexpected Jobsite Find

Yeah, I have 3 now, and this is the nicest of the 3 condition-wise (PERFECT), but the lettering seems a little cruder. Anyways, I jokingly believe that I'm the global market share controller of Dr. J.S. Rose's Eye Water bottles, with 3 of the 4 known to exist on the collector market on...
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- Post #26
- Jul 27, 2017
- Forum: What is it? Antique Bottles BEFORE 1900
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Unexpected Jobsite Find

HA! I was a little inebriated late one night and created an eBay listing for the second one I found. I was offered a very, very princely sum for the first one I found, so I set my start bid, reserve, and BIN price ridiculously high as a test. Ultimately the true test fell on me being unwilling...
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- Post #24
- Jul 27, 2017
- Forum: What is it? Antique Bottles BEFORE 1900
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Unexpected Jobsite Find

The slightly cocked 'S' is another indicator these were blown from, or in, the same mold. Thanks guys
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- Post #22
- May 4, 2017
- Forum: What is it? Antique Bottles BEFORE 1900
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Unexpected Jobsite Find

Sorry for the indoor photos, but here are both sides. Left side on both is a crude Phil. A: Right side is the money shot: I thought I saw a crude 1854 on the first one I found that I posted earlier in the thread but it was bad light and my eyes deceived me.
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- Post #21
- May 4, 2017
- Forum: What is it? Antique Bottles BEFORE 1900
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Unexpected Jobsite Find

Looked at them side by side in the sunlight when I got home today. I'm new to this but they look intrinsically different. See below: The pontils also look very different to me. I think the left one is an older iron pontil and the right is an open pontil. Again, I'm a newbie, but these two...
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- Post #18
- Apr 27, 2017
- Forum: What is it? Antique Bottles BEFORE 1900
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Unexpected Jobsite Find

Pontil scar.
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- Post #16
- Apr 26, 2017
- Forum: What is it? Antique Bottles BEFORE 1900
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Unexpected Jobsite Find

I should start gambling, because I found this one today on the ground surface in a newly excavated soil pile not 50' from the other Eye Water bottle posted earlier in the thread.
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- Post #15
- Apr 25, 2017
- Forum: What is it? Antique Bottles BEFORE 1900
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Unexpected Jobsite Find

Oh, and I was looking over the Eye Water bottle last night and noticed it is embossed 1854 very crudely in smaller font next to Phil on the side. Very cool!
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- Post #13
- Mar 13, 2017
- Forum: What is it? Antique Bottles BEFORE 1900
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Unexpected Jobsite Find

H.H.H. Medicine bottle from the PA privy I found and dug near the bottle I found. The bottles dated from the 1880s through the 1920s. I found a number of each of these mini perfume bottles, too.
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- Post #12
- Mar 13, 2017
- Forum: What is it? Antique Bottles BEFORE 1900
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Unexpected Jobsite Find

You're right, it is Garton's.
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- Post #10
- Feb 10, 2017
- Forum: What is it? Antique Bottles BEFORE 1900
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Unexpected Jobsite Find

Pics soon come.
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- Post #8
- Feb 9, 2017
- Forum: What is it? Antique Bottles BEFORE 1900
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Unexpected Jobsite Find

Thanks all for your responses! An unexpected find that has become an accidental hobby. I already found and dug a privy on the same site. The bottles were mostly 1920s but I think I found some that were a bit older. Found two embossed Hires Household Extract bottles, one clear and one a nice...
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- Post #6
- Feb 9, 2017
- Forum: What is it? Antique Bottles BEFORE 1900