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can anyone date this bottle?

Anthony, Are you any relation to Nancy P (now Allen)?
- barbuck
- Post #15
- Mar 16, 2011
- Forum: What is it? Antique Bottles BEFORE 1900
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What's this thing?

Wow; I used to do a lot of Civil War relic hunting, and over the years have found probably a dozen of these. We knew that they were some sort of farm tool/implement, but how funny that it takes a bottle forum to discover how it was actually used!
- barbuck
- Post #10
- Mar 16, 2011
- Forum: Unexpected Discoveries
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Reassembled Redware - save your shards!

Wow, those old plates are so interesting! And the funny thing (to me at least) is that most of those designs wouldn't have looked out of place in a "modern art" collection from the 1970's! Buck
- barbuck
- Post #46
- Mar 16, 2011
- Forum: Unexpected Discoveries
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can anyone date this bottle?

Anthony, I'm originally from Gloucester, so don't want to sell the bottle - it's a reminder of home. I found the ad above in Google Books online; can't remember what words I searched but "Gloucester Directory" should locate it. It also has the personal listing for George Davis. I also found...
- barbuck
- Post #12
- Mar 15, 2011
- Forum: What is it? Antique Bottles BEFORE 1900
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can anyone date this bottle?

Hi Anthony, I realize that this is an old post & you may have already found out info on George Davis. I also have a Geo Davis soda & found this ad in the 1882 Gloucester City Directory, so he must have been in business at least 20 years, based on the estimates for your bottle's age. Cheers, Buck
- barbuck
- Post #9
- Mar 14, 2011
- Forum: What is it? Antique Bottles BEFORE 1900