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    Another Bottle Book ... !

    Some members might find it of some interest (or amusement); feeling that there was a need for it, my wife & I have put out a new book on collecting old bottles & stoneware in South Africa. It is self published (as all my wife's books have been), is 116 pages and has some 37 colour plates. (Yes...
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    Especially for Epackage

    Hey Jim - don't know if you are a Janet Evanovich fan, but she has a marvellous comment about Jersey in one of her books : "Fancy-pants wimps in LA rated their pollution and curtailed activities. In Jersey we just call it air and get on with life. If you're born in Jersey, you know how to rise...
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    Lost !

    Happy Birthday to me ! Can't find the birthday lists; can't really find anything on this new set up - that's why I haven't posted anything or replied to anything for some time !
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    Etna bottle

    Just a query - can anyone tell me a bit more about this little bottle and its usage ? - Interested to know what that little "seal" type circle was for ?
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    Query about Maker's Mark

    Can anyone tell me more about this manufacturer's mark? Trident under bottle. Who was the manufacturer & when did they operate? Thanks.
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    Friday night is Spaghetti night ...

    Our bunch of "wild" porcupines know that Friday night is spaghetti night and they arrive in droves : [/IMG] How many can you count, including the one hiding round the corner ? [/IMG]
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    Treasures from the sea ...

    I was fortunate enough to buy a large batch of bottles yesterday from someone who used to run a dive school up the East coast of South Africa. Most will be for re-selling, but some may well stay in the collection. Here are three shots of the whole lot: [/IMG] [/IMG]...
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    Bottles from a distant land ...

    Hi, haven't been digging recently, but in my birthday wishes thread, Surface asked to see some glass : so - here are some bottles from South Africa: First, a range of chemist bottle with embossing on, mainly from suburbs around Cape Town: [/IMG]
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    Need bottles; will travel...

    Have just been on a round trip of 1300 km to buy a collection of bottles from an old digger. This is what some R14000 (about $2000) looks like still in cardboard boxes et al. -
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    Message in a a bottle ... ?

    I bought a nice "black glass" bottle at our flea market - Cape Town's 'Spa Aerated Waters & Cordial Co" - a fairly sought after bottle:
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    It's not a bottle book, but ....

    The bottle collecting fraternity here in South Africa is simply not big enough to support a magazine or any such publication. So it's always satisfying and useful to get a bit of publicity in other magazines, especially a rather nice, glossy, up-market one ! The people who did this article had...
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    Strange little glass.... something?

    Can anyone shed some light on this peculiar little object? ~
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    Any Help on this Pot ?

    No, not the Haight-Ashbury type ! Someone brought this large stoneware pot to my stall today and asked if I could give him any info. It was brought up from under water by a trawler - I assume somewhere off the South African coast. It is about 11" tall and 10" in...
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    Flea Market & Mothers' Day...

    Had a really good market today; tempting to think it was people buying something nice - and different - for Mothers' Day . [:)] However I don't think I can really attribute it to that ! Don't know if any others who do markets or sell bottles ever find Mothers' Day - or maybe more likely...
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    SA Dig .... Busted !

    Went through to the Lane this morning early. Lovely weather and had just got my hole started- was going to be a big one : when Railway Security arrived - several of them ! : Not good news at all. After long discussion (made difficult by their battling to understand my...
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    SA dig ...16

    Friday 27 was a Public Holiday, overcast and perfect for digging - so, to the Lane. Unfortunately there was a downside ~ probably because it was a holiday a Railway Security team came wandering along, removing vagrants who were sleeping in a couple of derelict buildings. On seeing me labouring...
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    Great Snakes Alive !

    And there I was, hoping for a quiet afternoon, maybe cleaning some bottles ~ BUT ~ the garden service guys came shouting that " There is a snake in your garage !" As you can see, there is a hole in the planking at the bottom of the garage door - and a slippery...
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    Heinz Bottle

    I'm putting this one in as before 1900, though it may well have been almost spot on 1900! Dug this in the Lane and was about to toss it as a "modern" sauce bottle when I spotted that It had rather a nice embossing:
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    SA dig 15.... Sod's Law!

    At last, back to the Lane after a month of coughing, hacking and worrying about what might be happening there. The answer to that was ... nothing! Some garden type refuse is being dumped, but fortunately away from the digging area. Had already decided where to dig. The previous digs have all...
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    Dupli Color Milk Glass Pot

    While cleaning some milk glass pots, I found this little square pot, with its lid & pretty dirty. Once cleaned up it looked like this: [image][/IMG] It was obvious that there was something embossed on one panel: [/IMG] At first we thought it was a fisherman with a...

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