Hello All, Digger Scott unearthed this one a few trips back. I haven't had any luck identifying the symbol embossed on the bottle or the bottle type itself. After looking at the pictures for a while the style appears Japanese to me. The symbol is a circle with a stylized horizontal line above...
Hello Jack, We are finding some decent stuff. Of course I don't post pictures of the days when we don't find much or just get some slicks.I am disappointed that you washed off the olive oil label! I would have liked to have seen a picture of it. Next time.
Hi Clarence, It's a pretty common bottle I believe. I will attempt to take some better pics of it for you. I need to soak it for a while to see if the lid will loosen enough to unscrew.
I would hire a backhoe for a day and have them dig off the upper layers of trash until I hit bare dirt or a layer of older material. If I hit a layer of turn of the century and/or older material I would leave it so I could dig it at my pleasure and tell the city to come remove the layer of newer...
Excellent! I only find busted pieces of the big stoneware so I tend to plow right through with my shovel when I see the side of a big jug. I'll take a little more time from now on to be sure if it's broken or not.
Hi Robert, If you still have a public library in your county you can go on their website and see if they have any books about marbles.Find out if there are used book stores in your town. They may have marble books for super cheap. And you can haggle.
I'm not so sure about that Robert. Teachers are a strange breed of duck. I wouldn't be surprised if they were nipping some booze or dipping some opium during their toilet breaks. Couldn't throw those empties in the trash basket in the school house so they would have gone down the hole. If...