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  1. DeepSeaDan

    Clean n’ Shiny, Right Outta the Drink!

    Had some fun dives in a water depth absent of light and a moderate current running. Nothing remarkable save for the excellent condition of the glass. I reckon these botts only recently emerged from the sand. Happy to add another poison to the collection!
  2. DeepSeaDan

    Toronto Bottle Show

    Found some things at the Show today: top of the list for me was the black glass mallet, circa 1760, pulled from Kingston harbour by a local diver, about 50 years ago. Couldn’t pass up the beautiful colour of the strap-sided amber flask. Got a sweet bargain on the little pontiled Trask Magnetic...
  3. DeepSeaDan

    I Can See For Miles and Miles and Miles....

    Normally at this time of year, up in these here parts, my favourite river is frozen solid - but not this year! Today, the visibility was spectacular, albeit it mighty chilly. As I've been over this particular area many times, a new find is a rarity, but I managed to spot me a sweet old black...
  4. DeepSeaDan

    J McLachlan Codd Bottle

    My Son recently completed a month-long tour of New Zealand, but didn’t forget dear ol’ Dad’s birthday. I’ve always wanted an intact Codd bottle with the marble in place, and now I have one.
  5. DeepSeaDan

    Prancing Horse...

    Can't get enough of those amazing pictorial bottles! This prancing horse is one of my favourites - care to share a special pictorial embossing from your collection?
  6. DeepSeaDan

    Good Grape Soda Bottle

    A buddy came across this bottle and was asking about it's provenance & potential value. I did some digging and solved the provenance issue, but came up short on the value end - anyone have an opinion of value for this bottle? https://tazewell-orange.blogspot.com/2012/02/
  7. DeepSeaDan

    In my dreams, this cart makes a house call at my place!

    I found this picture during one of my innumerable searches for old pics of our antique bottle past. Many moons ago I found a cart , in about 50' of water, similar to the one pictured here; alas, there wasn't a load of botts on-board! Does anyone else enjoy looking for / collecting pics of our...
  8. DeepSeaDan

    The Fun of "How'd It Get There?"

    So there I was, cruising down-river, head on a swivel, hunting for treasures, when I noticed a cylindrical object to my left, resting amongst a small pile of rock, mostly camouflaged in zebra mussels. Aha, I said to myself - what have we here? A vigorous rub-down revealed it to be a large Master...
  9. DeepSeaDan

    Treasures from the Hairy Pond

    Decided to try a couple of new locations, only to find them choked with all manner of exotic flora & fauna, to the extent I could have used a machete to hack my way through it! Undeterred, I focused on areas where old homes backed onto the water; to my delight, a chamber pot had been tossed into...
  10. DeepSeaDan

    Age & Style of Pontil?

    Just looking for an estimate of age for this bottle and opinions on the style of pontil. The base has a ring of sand embedded in it, thus I'm assuming it's a sand pontil.
  11. DeepSeaDan

    A Great Day in the River!

    Until recently, the only gravitating-style stopper soda bottle I had found was in the late Fall of 2016; this summer, I've managed to find two! The days' hunt was rounded out by a nice quart soda and a beer with a hand-finished top.
  12. DeepSeaDan

    Covered a Lot of River-Bottom...

    Very enjoyable scooter ride today against a decent current, culminating in a few nice finds - wishing summer would never end! Got a nice Pilgrim quart ( clear is the rare variant for this bottle ), a machine-made Knox pint; the inks & a Nerviline med. from Kingston were found on a previous...
  13. DeepSeaDan

    First Time Surface Find

    The Missuss & I attended a garage sale where the home was built in 1865. Not seeing any old glass or crockery on display, I asked the owner if he had any such items; to my surprise & delight, he did! So off to the back of his old garage we go, where, to my disappointment, was a small collection...
  14. DeepSeaDan

    Nice soda / Hard to find

    Acquired this sweet li'l soda today - Francis Matthews / Oakville pint soda, hand-finished top. Looks like Mr. Matthews made soda water, mineral water and ginger beer in the town of Brampton, between 1881-1891, then sold that business in 1892. He re-opened another soda bottling works in 1898 and...
  15. DeepSeaDan

    History & Loss...

    In my search for antique bottles & crockery, I sometimes discover relics from the logging industry that flourished from the 1850's thru till the early 40's - the item in the 1st video was called a "Peavey" and was used to roll & maneuver logs that were placed in rivers for transit to sawmills...
  16. DeepSeaDan

    Rock Dumps Are A Pain!

    What would have been a great trove of old treasures was destroyed by the practice of reinforcing riverbanks using rock pour. Heartbreaker! Everything I un-covered was broken. Early on, finding an old pontiled med ( broken, of course ,) sent me into a feeding frenzy of rock moving / bottom...
  17. DeepSeaDan

    The hits just keep on comin'!

    Another day in the river; was halfway through my 2nd tank when I spied this beauty just lazin' in the sand & the sun...
  18. DeepSeaDan

    River Treasures!

    Another fun dive today! I posted about my peculiar penchant for pickle jars the other day; today, I finally found one that's embossed! Add to that a nice old milk bottle & a very old, hand-blown black ale / wine bottle and it's a recipe for good times in the deeps! ( well, 15' of deeps anyway...
  19. DeepSeaDan

    Never In My Wildest Dreams...

    So there I was, exploring a dump site, where most of what I was seeing was from the 1920's - 30's era, and, regrettably, most of it was broken. After working through the site several times and being rewarded with a couple of ink wells, I decided to end the dive. Returning to my entry site, I...
  20. DeepSeaDan

    Latest River Find

    Back in the river for another look; not much to find this time, though I did score a nice hand-finished beer from Toronto - O'Keefes Lager. I've taken to videoing my finds; if folks are interested in viewing these vids, is there a way to post them here? I suspect their server(s) might not be...

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