It is funny you say that. That day we decided when we hit on a privy, we were going to put a note inside a plastic bottle about 2 feet deep telling them they are too late when someone digs it down the road. Deep enough for them to work a little but shallow enough that they don't burn a good...
It wasn't pontiled. I was 1870-1885 or so.
I'm not sure what the book value is but it brought me $650 on Ebay.
That was good enough for me considering I got it for $10 at a flea market.
Nice.
Like most Hutches, it is going to be a local thing as far as what it is worth. If it is a rare Mississippi Hutch, some guys over there would be willing to come off of some nice change for it.
Nice tombstone slug plate.
I'd help you but my area is Louisiana hutches.
I look confident, don't I?
Our crew had dug only dumps and constructions sites and decided to get into privy digging this season for the first time.
Everything was perfect. Had the Sanborn maps, had the oldest neighborhood in town, got access. found a privy.
We worked our way down...
Great thread.
It is great to have a place to go shoot the bull with people that get it.
As most of you know, it is hard to explain our passion to most people.
It has been great seeing these bottles.
It is interesting to hear the stories as much as see the bottles.
I narrowed this...
That shape is unreal.
I've never seen anything like that.
As far as that cobalt demijohn goes, I went to a flea market my wife loves to go to and looked through the the old guy's bottles. It was the usual screw top hell. I was on my way out when he stopped me and reached on a high shelf...
Let's stick with value.
We all have bottles we love where money doesn't matter but I am talking about money bottles.
Here is mine:
I bought it for $10.
My buddies and I got into the hobby around a year ago picking it up by pretty much by accident from our dads who used to dig back in the 60s.
This is my best bottles display. I have 150-200 bottles but this is my showcase. I've dug maybe half of them. Others bought at flea markets, antique...
I wouldn't think the raised areas serve the same purpose as they do on poison bottles. I can't imagine needing to mark a huge demijohn to keep people from getting it mixed up with other bottles in the dark.
They also don't seem to follow any particular pattern.
Those raised areas...
Sounds nuts but it is working like gangbusters.
Powered by two rotisserie cooker motors and the canisters are chrome toilet brush holders.
The most expensive components are the toilet brush holders.
Motors were $5 a piece at a flea market.
Chrome canisters with lids were $10 a piece...