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    Thanksgiving Eve dig - squat soda !

    Went out digging yesterday. Found a nice squat soda!R. B. WEBSTERNEW YORKR.B.W. Fate would have it that I also uncovered a R. H. Macy & Co flask....just in time for the Macy's Day Parade!R. H. MACY & CONEW YORK
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    My 5th pontil

    Got a nice open pontil last week for free! Nice whittling and embossed on four sides:LYON'SKATHAIRONFOR THE HAIRNEW YORK
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    dug a squat

    Dug a squat of some kind.Anyone know anything about this bottle? It's too bad the embossing is not a person's name or something more exotic, but at least the shape is nice.
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    Thompson & Co Proprietors Boston

    Does anyone anything about this bottle?It looks like it has an applied lip... also has a whittled feel on the back surface, but I not as whittled as bottles that I know are whittled. There is no pontil but the mold seem goes straight across the entire bottom of the bottle.Any ideas of the age...
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    1890s print ad - Healy & Bigelow Kickapoo

    Thought this print ad should be accessible to all so I scanned it for all to see. Interesting to read about the Kickapoo Cough Cure.This was salvaged from an 1890's newspaper. Hope you enjoy.
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    A. B. & E. Co Amarillo, TEX

    I am trying to figure out the full history of the A.B. & E. Co from Amarillo, TEX. I have heard they were the original Dr. Pepper manufacturers and have heard that they were counterfeiters of Dr. Pepper.Anyone know the whole story?
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    rock tumbler

    Can a rock tumbler be used as a bottle tumbler, if it is the appropriate model rock tumbler?
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    first iron pontil! Weaver's

    DR. S. A. WEAVER'S CANKER & SALT RHEUM SYRUP Nice iron pontil filaments embedded in the base!
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    barrel Gulden bottle, common or rare?

    I usually don't care about mustard bottles, but this looks to be the earliest Gulden bottle I have every found.The barrel shape even makes it display worthy in my collection! Any ideas on the frequency of this style?
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    porcelain sign stash....

    A while back I found a dump with a porcelain sign stash.Though you all might like to see some of them. It seems like a gas stationed was demolished and the signs were buried along with the debris.
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    wierd rock shaped figural...what is it??

    I dug one of the most unusual bottles of my career the other day.I need help figuring out, what the heck it is.... It looks like a piece of coal or a rock, it has a ground lip, and an small panel where a label would have gone.In the photos it appears to be black, but when back lit - the glass...
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    C B Ellin's Horse Radish...make that 501

    Saw a post on the forum from 2004 that said Zumwalt's book says 500 or less are known of the C.B ELLIN'S HORSE RADISH bottle. Maybe this one makes it 501.Found this extremely close to the surface a while back....lucky it was not destroyed.
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    1st dig of spring yielded a cool veterinarian bottle...and a newark

    Didn't find much but thought these two bottles were worth sharing: The veterinary bottle has nice embossing, neat to see the word "cattle" embossed in the glass. The Menk bottle is a large apothecary shape - thought someone from the NJ area might like the street address embossing.
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    Bitters from Connecticut list?

    I am trying to find out if there are many examples of Bitters bottles from Connecticut. I know of this one only (A.S. Hopkins Hartford, Conn).....which I was a thrill to find.
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    My 2nd pontil!

    Always a thrill digging a pontil bottle. This one reads:J. S. SEABURY'SREFINED CASTOR OILJAMAICA L.I. Pretty cool that it is abbreviated for Long Island, instead of modern "Queens" or "NY" The top half of the bottle has heavy mineral stains...the whittled surface makes it really hard to clean...
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    poison stopper skull cross bones

    This is a pretty cool poison stopper with Skull and Crossbones.Seems to be kind of rare. Any info?
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    For the love of history, giving away a bottle

    I dug a bottle last autumn:CROWELL'S PHARMACY1901 WASHINGTON AVE. NY It has a long crack in the back, but the embossing is in nice legible condition. I am trying to limit my collection to a particular locale and this does not fit.I can't bear to throw it away because it seems to be hyper-local...
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    ever dug up any live animals?

    Last year I dug up a shrew nest with 4 baby shrews inside.They were super cute with soft fuzzy fur and pointy snouts.I didn't have my camera, darn. Any other unusual animals dug into? .........besides toads, salamanders, non-venomous snakes, and mice
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    dog smoking hookah ?

    This unusual item was mixed in with a clutch of bottles.I am guessing it is some type of tobacco or snuff paraphernalia. Anybody have any ideas or knowledge?
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    variant colors

    Hello,Does anyone know whether or not the rare variant colors of bottles were intentional, or were they an accidental batch of glass that came out an unusual color? For example, the PUCE Dr. Townshend's bottle that gets a lot of attention.Or the lime green Bitter's bottle variants? Too much iron...

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