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  1. riverdiver

    Found under some barn boards while detecting

  2. riverdiver

    My first Pot Lid, from the tidal mud flats of New England

    I've been intrigued by these for years especially since I had never recovered one in 30 years of digging, diving and detecting.
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    My day at the mud flats with coldwater diver

    Had my first experience digging for bottles in a tidal mudflat with coldwater diver last week. Only found one intact bottle and it is a tiny 1-1/4" flask, looks like a perfume or sample bottle with a checkered pattern in the glass. Also recovered a marble, Victorian Brooch and two early necks...
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    2017 Bottle Dive Finds!

    I had a decent year of river diving for bottles, I found my usual assortment of clay pipes, marbles, coins and ammo. But this year netted some new bottles for me. Most notably I finally recovered a Warner's, a Drakes (6-log) a couple of local druggists and a beautiful Master Ink.
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    Mass Militia Button, Lake Diving Find 2017

    This is my button find of the year while lake/river diving in NH for Bottles. It is a Civil War era mass militia cuff button in horrible shape but still in my collection!
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    Embossed OP sauce bottle from my last dive of 2015

    Hi fellow diggers and divers, I scored this aqua beauty on my last dive of the season and to think it was just laying on the bottom, no digging required. I would love to tell you the name on the bottle and I'm sure someone here will recognize it but I'm just uploading the pics. I know it is a...
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    3 out of state Blobs found in NH farm house!

    1. Aqua, Peter Rice, 18 Paterson St. Paterson, NJ 2. Aqua, Sterling Bottling Works, D.G. Petty Proprietor, Greenport, LI 3. Aqua, C. McGinness, 36 Spencer St. Brooklyn
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    Riverdivers bottle collection for sale, whole or in parts...

    Buy, Sell & Swap: https://www.antique-bottles.net/forum/fb.ashx?m=646842
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    Riverdivers bottle collection for sale, whole or in parts...

    Hi fellow collectors, my collection of river bottom (dug) bottles is up for grabs, obviously if you are in New England or NH you can come and paw through it all, otherwise pm me with your desires and I will see what I have. Many inkwells, several masters, beers, sodas and meds some pontiled...
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    W.E. Bonney Barrel Ink and a 2 cent piece

    I went diving yesterday and recovered this nice small aqua barrel ink with a minor lip chip and a nice round front panel. During the dive I also recovered a holed 186? 2 cent piece and a 1923 Canadian penny. There was a bunch of other stuff like clad coins, marbles and 2 rings but these are my...
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    Old Silver from a river and some bottles too.

    I had a much better day yesterday in the silver area with an 1861 SLQ, an 1840 SLD an 1862 IH fatty and an 1866 Shield nickel. Also got one pipe bowl, some stems, 2 scrapers, some marbles, some clad coins, a perfume and an ink.
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    New marbles from diving.

    I recovered these 6 marbles on my last dive.
  13. riverdiver

    nailed another civil war token and a B & M RR button

    Finally got back in the water after a month of heavy rains and flooded dive sites. I found my second civil war token while looking for bottles and a large gilded B & M RR coat button. The civil war token has Army and Navy on one side with an anchor and crossed cutlasses and on the other side has...
  14. riverdiver

    4 hours of diving to find these two bottles...

    I have 2 more dives under my weight belt this year and I finally found some glass. 1. E. Hartshorn and Sons Boston Mass 2. P.J. Noyes Manufacturer Lancaster, NH I also recovered more pipes, marbles, 4 more CW buttons and a beauty of a 1900 Barber Half.
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    Big Silver and more CW buttons.

    I went back to the dive spot where I found the 1875 SLQ and CW Infantry button 2 weeks ago and found a beautiful 1900 Barber Half and 3 more CW Infantry buttons and 1-CW Arillery button plus several other colonial buttons and pipes, marbles, bullets etc...
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    1875 Seated Liberty Quarter

    Not a detecting find, but an eyeball find while scuba diving for bottles...I was mumbling to myself underwater as to why I often recover early copper coins but rarely silver ones when this little beauty flipped up in front of me. After confirming the type and date I uncovered a Union Infantry...
  17. riverdiver

    First 4 dives of 2013

    Pickens have been slim for bottles while I adjust to my new mask (fogging/flooding), I have found more coins than bottles to include an 1875 Seated Liberty Quarter and two IH pennies dated 1860 and 1907. Dives 3 & 4 produced a strap sided flask (not shown), an aqua unbrella ink and a crown...
  18. riverdiver

    Need help from the NH collectors, green flask

    I received this bottle recently and have come up empty in my research, I even forwarded it to earlyglass and heard nothing. It is green, handblown (modern) and comes with a provenance card. I even researched the town it comes from and came up empty.
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    Glass Coin Banks with metal screw lids

    I found all of these in an old house while appraising a rather scattered bottle collection for some friends. There are 2 bears, a Lincoln, a lucky Jumbo Elephant and a Luck Joe Nash's Mustard, all have their lids and are in dusty but otherwise great condition and for sale as a group. PM...
  20. riverdiver

    more bottles from an old house.

    I found some of these and others were shown to me by the owners of a home slated for demolition.

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