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    RE: Useless or common bottles

    Common bottles with local embossing sell like hotcakes. If you find piles of bottles embossed or labled with nearby towns or names, never chuck 'em. People will snatch that .50 bottle of yours and shell out 10 -15 bucks without a thought. Saw a guy at a flea market who had and old green coca...
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    New Spot

    [:D] Found a new spot today. Actuall I found two! Here's what I pulled off the surface. The 2nd spot also has depression glass platter and bowl pieces. Oh yeah, there's also has a 2' round well filled to within a foot of the top. Where's me shovel??
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    Ben Hur Mustard?

    Do you like it? I save whatever strikes my fancy, whatever it looks like or how old.
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    Tonopah Nevada Milk bottle

    [;)] Wow that guy's clean! Got milk?
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    Why, oh, why the fascination?

    I think for me, it's the fascination of all thinks lost, buried or forgotten. I get that same feeling if I'm pulling a bottle out of the dirt, popping a coin or relic out of the ground, or crawling into a foundation I found in the woods. The things that I have found that I hold most treasured...
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    What's your Occupation?

    Hi all. Well I'm a father of 3 boys just like me[:@] I'm almost 35, spent 12 years as a paramedic and switched to HVAC technician for the past 6 years. I've been a landscaper, a medic, firefighter, carpenter, property manager, writer, trainer, and probably other things I've forgotten. I spend...
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    newbie's first dump

    The Hire's is a root beer extract bottle. It should be square and embossed. There were several runs of those, all a little different. I found one of those when I was installing drainage in my yard. I had spend a fruitless couple of hours digging at a dump and went home hot and tired. At home...
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    Where do you live? And where do you dig?

    I'm from upstate NY, 75 miles north of NYC. My house dates to 1884, and my area is full of historic areas. New Paltz is 2 miles from me and was settled in 1649.
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    Digital camera

    Thought I'd chime in. I use a Cannon digital elph, 3.2 megapixels. It takes a SD ram memory card which pops out and plugs diredtly into the front of my PC. Then I just click and download. I'm still learning to do close-ups and how to work the psychotic flash. It fits in my pocket and the 64kb...
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    Today's finds

    That could be. The brown has A67 embossed on the bottom, about 6" tall. It has rough seams that disappear in the neck. I have a couple of the Cheeseborough bottles. This one is very rough and out of shape with no embossing and very faint mold marks. I guess it could be of the same type, with the...
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    Today's finds

    Here's the Medicine. [:)]
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    Today's finds

    Spend a few hours digging today. Went to a couple of places. Ended up digging in the coal ash beneath a vacant church down the street. Found a few bottles, lots of pieces. Check out this ink and the medicine. Anyone willing to balpark the age of the ink. Very uneven, out of round, with...
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    Indian Rock Found In Privy

    [:D] Color me in awe. I would tossed that aside without a thought. I'm glad I didn't have to say what I thought it was. Other were nice enough to say it for me. I wouldn't make much of an archeologist. Yesterday's poop or ten million year old poop. It's all poop to me.[:'(]
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    Found this one

    Harry, you get the prize! A local antique dealer agrees. The bottle is only 6 3/4 inches long, irregular with lots of bubbles. The dealer dates it to 1911-1915 somehow. Funny side note: At a recent local bottle collectors meeting, these bottles were discussed with different resons for a round...
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    Hi everyone!

    Thanks for the words of concern. I spent my first career a a paramedic so I'm no stranger to the dangers. My first reaction when it occured to me that there was hospital waste was to move on. The size of the site and the sheer possibilities held me there. We have come across small amounts of...
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    Found this one

    [:)] Found this one the other day.
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    how can you locate a privy?

    By the way Flash, I found a human femur the other day. That's a leg bone, in case your not familiar. Very freaky. Turns out there's an old cemetary just across the field I was walking. Guess they didn't bury 'em too deep back then.
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    how can you locate a privy?

    Where are you guys from? I'm in NY as well. I'm 5 minutes from Poughkeepsie, near Highland. I'm amazed how many sites there are around this area. When I find one, I mark it on a map. There are at least a dozen I have been wanting to get back to.
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    Hi everyone!

    I think I found my new home. Stumbled on the forum by accident. Serendipity abound. Please allow me to jump right in. I have found several sites, pulling stuff from each. One of the latest turned out to be a city dump from the '20's. I heard about it from a co-worker and ran to check it out...

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