Galveston Dig

hemihampton · Mar 20, 2024

webe142 said:
My last dig was cool and rainy. I appreciated the weather with summer just around the corner.

I probed out a promising spot near the side walk. Turned out to be a trashpit. I recovered around 50 bottles, mostly slick whisky flasks, but also some perfumes and cures.

I did find one local bottle in the pit, a Galveston Mignon hutch.

Also, I had never dug a poison. This dig I dug 5, including what I have been told is a scarcer KR-9.

I like that Stearns from Detroit, long way from home. Some of those Poisons could be from Detroit if they say P D & Co. on bottom. There is a Rare Coffin shaped Poison from Detroit. Leon.

webe142 · Mar 21, 2024

hemihampton said:
I like that Stearns from Detroit, long way from home. Some of those Poisons could be from Detroit if they say P D & Co. on bottom. There is a Rare Coffin shaped Poison from Detroit. Leon.

Hemihampton, good call. The KR9 is marked that way.

swpender · Mar 23, 2024

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nhpharm · Apr 18, 2024

A bit late posting, but went out a couple weekends ago to a new lot. Unfortunately much of the lot is covered with a cement slab and the maps are not much help as they don't show anything identifiable as a privy, but we probed out a few holes (trash pits) and managed to come up with some goodies nonetheless. Ended up with 2 Galveston hutch sodas (including a very nice example of the backwards N "Cortes" hutch), a Warners (sadly cracked but always fun to dig), an early (1870's) Galveston pharmacy bottle, a previously unknown Galveston 1 Gill milk bottle (beat up but will look fine on the shelf) and a great pottery caviar jar from New York. Lots of broken beer bottles on this lot but only came up with one whole one. Anyways, we'll be back at the same lot Sunday hopefully.

nhpharm · Friday at 12:00 PM

Went out Sunday for a dig with the boys and my digging partner. My younger son wanted to dig a hole near his last hole, so we punched a pretty random hole next to where he dug last trip and he came up with a nice 1860's Mitchell's Eye Salve bottle. My older son I put on a hole I probed out that felt promising...he was complaining at first because it was full of oysters and water but he pulled out a WOG hutch soda and a really cool glass advertising panel advertising the Barry-Wehmiller Company, which is still around but at the time sold pasteurizing systems and conveyor systems for bottling works. I dug a hole that ended up full of wood and not much else, but as I was getting it wrapped up, I pulled out one of my favorite bottles from Galveston...a Sweet Revenge! My digging partner had gotten into a huge privy so we worked on that for the rest of the day; it was a nice 1890's pit and for my pick I took home a gorgeous Preston pharmacy bottle and a really cool Victor, Colorado pharmacy bottle. I also managed to figure out where the earlier privy was so that'll be what I'll be digging next time!

webe142 · Saturday at 8:36 PM

Last time out, my probe found something that felt interesting. Turned out to be a privy. I was super thrilled to find a local flask in the fill layer.

I was making steady progress, but was having a hard time working through a high water table. After several hours, I still hadn't reached depth or found the fourth wall. Luckily nhpharm was around to help finish it out. Pulled out some great stuff.

There were over 30 of these small bottles. Seemed like a cross between a a Vaseline and a shoe polish bottle. If anyone has any ideas on what they might have been.......

Enjoy the pics.

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