Picked this little advertising jug up today with several others mini jugs does anyone know how rare it might be?The jug says compliments of Henry Christman,Agent Shawhan Whiskey Rich Hill -MO
Wondering if anyone has ever seen a Rumford Chemical works bottle this big. I got this a couple days ago and was wondering how rare it was.I put a regular rumford next to it to compare sizes. I have found alot of smaller ones but never this size.
Here are some photos from my last two digs in the same yard found some nice stuff and fianilly found my first whole umbrella ink. Has anyone ever seen a carters master ink with the embossing along the side. I have only seen it on the bottom and on the collar of the bottle> Gotta love the color...
Lots of great digging this past saturday here are some pics! Found 29 snuff bottles in one hole gotta be some kind of record! Also found a cathederal pickle -4 druggist bottles-A blob whiskey -some nice 1870s meds and a whole lot more...
Well I have a friend that has been wanting to dig with us for a long time so I called him up and asked if he would like to dig last saturday he said sure so saturday morning we loaded up our tools and met up with my other digging buddy up north had a great day digging. The only problem I had was...
Well I was dreading taking some stuff to the county land fill today its about 30 miles away(I would have rather be digging at this point) So I loaded everything on the old trusty truck and was off to the land fill. I got about 5 miles away from the dump and noticed a garage sale(Always hard for...
Hello all been at it again found this flask today and as far as I can tell it is unknown. I looked and found info on the distillery and post prohibition bottles but could find nothing on this one. Any help would be appreciated!!!
Well I ventured off again to the old ghost town to dig. If anyone has ever dug these ghost towns it is always much harder to find pits due to the lack of homes and land marks no alleys property line ect. After about 45 minutes of probing I found another pit. I started to dig the pit and at 2...
Found this in the old ghost town I am currently digging yesterday came out of an 1880s can anyone help determine what it is? Thanks....
there is a hole towards the bottom of it to drain liquid off something for butter maybe?
Had another good day of digging! Here are the highlights of the day....A large size pumpkin seed flask with a barrel inside a wreath <----(has anyone ever seen one of these?) A warners safe kidney and liver cureand a very nice colored Bunker hill pickle.Found some commons in the whole and the...
Well we headed out today to one of our favorite towns to dig.We were digging in the oldest part of town next to houses on the 1886 sandborn maps. We started to probe and found to likely pits. We opened the first pit and it turned out to be a twenties pit then we filled it in and opened the other...
Well I crossed another thing off of my bucket list today me and my buddy Mark went digging today after we found that the ground was thawed enough and man oh man am I glad we did was kinda cold out this morning and almost didn't go. I have dug several broken historical flask in the past but today...
Have a questions about the type of camera to buy for taking close ups of bottles. I am not a camera fanatic and was wondering if anyone knew a good reasonably priced camera to purchase any help would be appreciated. I need a good one to take photos of a new web site I am building.
Thanks
Here is another colored boone druggist.
Wish I had the change to put it on my shelf!
http://cgi.ebay.com/A-R-Townsend-Druggist-Boone-Iowa-Green-Antique-Bottle-/280615755123?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4156009d73
Here is another video of finds from the sunday before last dig.
http://s728.photobucket.com/albums/ww286/deepdigger64/?action=view¤t=20101107164857.mp4
Been digging up north the last few sundays here is a video of this sundays dig this is just a video of the keepers threw about 50 or 60 slicks and unembossed ones back in the hole long day but great fun!
http://s728.photobucket.com/albums/ww286/deepdigger64/?action=view¤t=20101114181908.mp4
Found some nice bottles and jars yesterday got a new video camera still trying to learn how to use it hope this works first time posting video link.
http://s728.photobucket.com/albums/ww286/deepdigger64/?action=view¤t=20101031165144.mp4