I won't be able to get any pictures of mine til the middle of the week (I left it at work), but I'll post some ASAP. NO markings that I can find other than the clown face!
Hi everybody... I stumbled across a small clear soda, maybe 5" or 6" high, and there are no markings anywhere, except on the bottom (where a pontil scar would be), where there is an embossed clown face! A co-worker said that it looked like Bozo, but I'm not sure about that. I wasn't able to get...
Hey guys, I'm going to be visiting family in O'fallon MO soon, and I know that they live fairly close to the RR tracks. The RR has been there since the mid 1800's, and there was a lot of civil war action in the area...
I'm likely gonna be kinda bored while I'm there, and while I won't have...
Is this the dig you invited me to Bill??? It's a bummer that I couldn't make it!
I wouldn't be surprised at all if there was a brick liner at my house; my house was built by the owner/operator of the Clio brick foundry (Thomas Oliff) as his personal home. The basement walls are all red brick...
Hey everybody, I came across a bottle today, and I haven't been able to find any info about it via Google.
It's marked:
H.E. BILL'S
MAGIC RELIEF
BAY CITY, MICH.
It's a clear rectangular medicine, roughly 5-3/4" x 2" x 1-3/16".
No pontil scar; it has an "O" in a diamond on the bottom...
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Nope... different Steve.
I've never been on a bottle dig, but I'm anxious to give it a shot!
Keep me posted as to anything local going on; I'll get an email off to you within the next few days with my contact info.
Thanks!
Steve
Thanks guys, I suppose I should have specified that I'm no stranger to digging, as my family has had farms my whole life and I grew up working for my father's trucking/excavating/septic company; I've just never dug a privy before, and I was never looking for anything or trying to be careful when...
Hey everybody, I've never been on a dig, so I don't really know how it goes.
How much of a mess does it make?
If you're digging a privy, on average, how long does it take start to finish?
Any ideas as to where on the property to look for a farm dump?
I'd like to accompany some of the...
Hi everyone... I'm a newbie from Michigan.
My name's Steve, I live in Clio, about 15-ish miles north of Flint.
I'm 32, and I've been into "old junk" for all of those years, as my parents and grandparents were always into antiquing. I'm just now starting to get into serious-ish collecting...