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    The generous ghosts of Mi-Lem cocktail mix

    Hi all, Hope everyone is well, I've been away from here for a while. I just helped my parents move out of an apartment. A previous tenant was apparently the inventor of Mi-Lem cocktail mix. I found a lot of beverage related stuff in the garage and basement along with a case of mostly...
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    Seaweed?

    A lot of the bottles I brought back from DHB have a thin accumulation of seaweed growth on both inside and outside of the bottle. It gives the bottle a reddish or sometimes greenish tinge. What's the best way to get rid of it? Eileen
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    Dead Horse Bay

    Interesting trip. Learned a lot. Here's some of what I brought back.
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    Crystal perfume jar? Est. 1910-ish

    Wow, my landvaettir homies gave it up for me today! Verrrrry ritzy! [:D][:)][:D] Anyone recognize make, model, name, rank, serial #? Eileen
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    Hobbits back off, it's mine!

    Today I got a white clay pipe - at least, the important part. Area has yielded 1870s-1920s bottles.
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    A woman with a Mission! (And 2 Hoffmans)

    So here are the three amigos. The Mission I found today, no indication of it's age. I love how it's almost like a deco/designer soda. I think it's older than the other Mission I found. The green Hoffman Ginger Ale was also found locally (1952). The clear Hoffman is a Dead Horse Bay special...
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    Da Cugini godda prawblim witch youse!

    Yestidday I went diggin wit Noo Yawk digga etta undisclowzed locashun neah him en amung udda dings we found dis interestin decades old crime seen. So dat youse awl can appreshiate it awl da maw I am quite happeeta narrate in da appropriyit dialec witch iz Brooklynese, en witch I speak floointlee...
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    Duco Cement?

    I have a pair of bottles that will be good for display once they are repaired, but I would probably not sell them because they are pretty cracked if you look closely, and any repair I do is bound to be amateurish. I'm going to use Duco Cement (unless someone here starts screaming that this will...
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    Dead Horse Bay reconnaissance and weird find

    So my diving buddy and I went down to scope out Dead Horse Bay today. I was teaching a homebrewing class in Brooklyn so we were there anyway. The class went kinda late so we ended up getting to DHB just as the tide was coming in. We got there some time around 6:15pm. We still found our goodly...
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    I now have the power of Thor. Or something.

    OK seriously... what is this? [sm=rolleyes.gif]
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    Diving in NYC area?

    I have a friend who just got dive certified. He's asking where the good places are around NYC to go looking for bottles. Anyone... Bueller, Bueller? [:D] Eileen
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    30's-20's dump finds, including a cute 1oz ink

    This area is teeming with shards going back to TOC, and from the looks of it many have dug before me, but I found something that hadn't been touched before and came away with a few nice ones. This is weird - it was a hillside dump with lots of ash and bone and some shells, but it had been capped...
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    Anchor Hocking mark on Coca Cola bottle?

    I don't have them with me to provide photos, but I found two interesting shards recently at a site that I'm going back to dig later. One was a broken (but gorgeous) designer soda. The other was a broken Coca Cola bottle, 6 or 7oz size. The interesting thing was that the *only* mark on the bottom...
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    Horse bones

    I've found bones at most of the TOC dumps I dig, but they were associated with food - beef, pork, chicken. This one I am pretty sure is a femur from a horse. No glass found yet except for some tantalizing shards, but given that they haven't relied on horses around here for a while, I bet I am...
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    Awesome Sauce!!!

    Dug today: J. Random sauce bottle. Tooled applied lip, glass is very crude. Lots of bubbles, no embossing anywhere.Seam ends about 3/4" down the neck. Anyone got ideas as to age? I also got a wine split and a food jar on this outing. We've had some torrential rains, softened up the old creek...
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    Buffalo Ammonia with sheared ring finish & pontil scar?!??!?

    I started trying to figure out the date on this bottle and looking on Bill's site, found out that it seems to have a couple of rare qualities. This definitely looks like a sheared ring finish to me. The bottle is very faintly embossed "Buffalo Ammonia" on both sides. Looks like a key mold...
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    My first Hutch

    They're digging up around the site of the old Starch Works in Glen Cove NY. Place burned down in 1906. On a hunch, started wandering around the area when the bulldozer crews broke for lunch, and got lucky. Yeah it's in pretty bad shape but hey, YOU survive getting run over by a bulldozer and...
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    Glen Cove, Long Island finds

    Here's the star of my collection, an 1840's Saratoga Eagle blob top iron pontil. If I did my research correctly I think this one goes for around $200.
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    Bizzaro round glass thingie

    OK I give up, what is it? It's a roundel of some kind, probably pre-1900. Maybe for a porthole on a ship? Or an ornamental window? Too shallow to be a bowl. Anyone have any idea? Eileen
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    Milk glass collection for sale NJ

    Just a heads up for anyone in the NJ area who is interested in milk glass, someone is selling off a large collection. I don't know the people, just happened to see this in passing. http://newyork.craigslist.org/jsy/clt/925414321.html Eileen

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