sometimes good ol gasoline takes the black tar away, fill it and let it sit for a while in a safe outside location. then use a old brush. use eye protection!
Amesbury
The gun is a candy container from around1930-1940 I'd guess. They put tiny multi-colored beads of candy in them.I've collected about 50 so far. I found quite a few over my years of diggin and some i bought on e-bay or traded with my diggin partners for them.
Hey Bottleman
Thats what was so odd, there was very little wind, thank God! We most likely wouldn't have heard it. The tree was about 40 yards away and not even in the dump. That hole was started last year and sat there for ummteen times we dug there since, We just out...
Hi Everyone
On Sunday, Three of us went to dig at a spot we dig regularly. We started opening up a hole and after a few hours we heard a creek from a tree about forty yards away from where we were digging. Butch says, that things gonna come down. We dug for about two more hours and...
PhilaBottle
Heh, If the ground isnt frozen till after deer season and you want to spend a day there Maybe we can hook up on a weekend for a day. See what happens and how the weather breaks till then. I'm tied up till then with hunting, but most of the time i have weekends off. were...
Matt
I have access to Sanborn Maps from Pennsylvania "where they were available"
I spent hours downloading these for someone here in the bottle groups from around Phila . I believe his name was Chris.. The earliest maps were dated 1916 and there's about 300 maps for each of about...
Heh Pa digger
Did you dig the Hottenstein or purchase it, My son found one and three others that were broke two years ago. The finds kind of dried up there but I'd still like to get back and dig a day or so there just to get it out the back of my mind!!!
There is one described in the Red Book for $20-30, but its different. I know its very rare to find something that hugh in this dump where I'm digging. I was told it was a pond years ago. It's about twelve feet deep and retains the water real well. Finds were terribly slim for the last three or...
Finally got out to dig once since the monsoon rains in NE Pa. departed. Still could'nt get to the spot I wanted to dig, It's five feet under water. We moved to the so called newer end of the dump and were finding local rare milks and quite a variety. Since they seemed to fizzle away on us. It...
Actually this pic is the bottle I was referring to, I thought it was packed away. On the front panel it has R&G embossed . Some of the books have these bottles priced fairly high depending on the size and shape $100.00 plus,,, If you could get that!!! I don't recall what book it was in. I hope...