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    Thems is the breaks

    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...
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    Post a pic of the best bottle you own or have ever owned

    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.
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    Columbus MISS Ice Co. Hutchinson

    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.
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    Thems is the breaks

    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...
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    Odd piece of bottle

    Lava lamp casing? Just kidding. I have no idea.
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    Post a pic of the best bottle you own or have ever owned

    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...
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    New Orleans/New York Jars

    The first bottle I ever dug was a La Valliere, New Orleans perfume bottle:
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    Flea Market find, any ideas?

    Can't help you with identifying it, but when I saw the lip and saw you paid a dollar for it, obviously you made a nice find.
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    Post a pic of the best bottle you own or have ever owned

    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...
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    Post a pic of the best bottle you own or have ever owned

    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.
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    My collection after almost a year

    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...
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    Help with torpedo

    Beautiful embossing.
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    Poison Demijohn ?

    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...
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    I built a 2 bottle tumbler for about $40

    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...
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    Some bottles I found...can anyone identify?

    That automatically dates the bottle from the early 30s to mid 60s.
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    Green Bottle in some type of crate

    Looks like a demijohn to me with a barrel around it rather than wicker.
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    Opinions? (Cobalt pontiled)

    I'm going to have to swallow my pride here and ask for some education. I just don't dig this kind of stuff so I don't have a good eye for it. We dig mostly TOC stuff and the really good dumps we've gotten into we'll give us some pulls from maybe the 1880s at the earliest. I've never dug an...
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    Opinions? (Cobalt pontiled)

    If it isn't old I am going to pretend it is because it really looks great in my display case, lol.
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    Opinions? (Cobalt pontiled)

    Anyone? I'm really not good with this kind of glass.
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    Medicine Bottle

    Probably had some kind of opiate in it kinda like Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. 1890-1900 or so? Value wise probably $8 to $12.

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