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    A bottle surprise from Maine

    Spent the last week and a half diving for bottles in Downeast Maine. No real awesome finds really. A very clean Warners, Kidney and Liver Cure was nice as were a few other things. However here is the odd one for the trip. I'm a sucker for any black glass and besides old coffin flasks they are...
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    Downeast Maine Dive Finds

    Been off diving for bottles and other artifacts in Downeast Maine. Water has been a cool 47f but I'm fine in my dry suit.Finally found another bottle with a nice pontil. A local lobster boat set a new mooring and the mooring dragged and exposed the bottle. It has a small chip on the bottom...
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    Memorial Underwater Finds

    Spent the weekend diving in Maine. It was a bit chilly at 42f but the winter was good to me and the bottom seems scoured with more bottles and treasures exposed. I found a number of fairly common bottles the nicest being a Hampden Dairy 1/2 pint. The non-bottle finds were better. Found an H.A...
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    A Heavy Unexpected Find

    Sometimes while bottle diving you find something that you have no clue as to what it is, at least at first. In one of my final dives this year (I'm landlocked while I recover from neck surgery at present) I found a rather heavy item. It weighs five pounds and is approximately 10 inches long...
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    How often do you score?

    I collect all my finds while scuba diving and I find that I find something pretty decent about every three or four dives. I was wondering how often other bottle divers score and how often privy diggers and dump diggers score. By score I just mean finding something really worth keeping. I...
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    Misidentification by "experts"

    From time to time while cruising the Internet I find bottles and other closely related items misidentified by "experts", even well trained archaeologists. Here's one that made me laugh a bit. While doing some research on the Portland Steamship Company, I have a few bottles and china tossed...
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    Another key find from Downeast Maine

    Found this key while diving near the old steamship wharves in Downeast Maine. I had no idea what it was for at first but now I think I know. But first I'll let members take a shot at it. It's brass with the number 78 embossed on it and about two inches long. It is also hollow. I found it in...
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    Unexpected dive find

    I've done hundreds of dives off the old steamship wharf and found plenty of bottles, clay pipes and assorted goodies but this year I came up with something I've never found before. It's in relatively poor condition but here is an old lead fishing lure. The hook has long rotted off as has the...
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    Pipes with character found diving

    I love finding bottles and stoneware but also love finding old clay pipes. Fully intact pipes are neat, so are those with fancy designs such as faces, animals and such. However my favorite are those that show wear from being clenched by the user's teeth. These three rather plain pipes all...
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    Summer's Dive Finds

    Did a bunch of diving in Downeast Maine this summer and came up with many different finds. It was not my most productive year in terms of bottles but I had a few interesting finds. The first is this Portland Creamerry bottle. It is quart size with many ribs. The seam goes all the way up to...
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    At the request of Potlidboy

    I posting some stuff I've never posted before and reposting some others. These are all dinnerware found in the waters of Maine from the steamshi era. I have numerous other items too but they are in the summer home in Maine at the moment. First is my pride and joy, a pticher from the...
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    Season ending bottle dives

    Headed to Downeast Maine for Thanksgiving and had some great weather to do a couple of end of season bottle dives. Storm Sandy churned up the bottom a bit revealing a few new items here and there. The only piece worth posting is this creamer: It stands 2.75" tall. It is the first...
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    Vacation dives in Maine are over. Latest finds.

    Finished up my last of three two week long vacations diving for bottles and artifacts in Downeast Maine. The last two weeks were not as productive as the previous weeks and turned up only a few things worth posting. The best find was this small stoneware creamer. It's from the Eastern...
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    Not a Great Trip for Bottles, But...

    Just got back from another two week bottle/artifact diving trip in Downeast Maine. The bottle finds were pretty pathetic. Most everything I found was a slick and not worth bringing up from the depths so I left them for others. I did find one nice looking, but common, Florida water but that...
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    First Dive Finds of 2012 - Maine

    I just got back from two weeks of diving in Downeast Maine. The finds were excellent and exciting to boot. There was a crier, something unexpected, and something unknown. Just to get it over with I'll start with the crier. I was down about 40 feet or so pulling out a plate shard, which I...
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    Latest Dive Finds - Maine

    Just got back from another twoweeks of bottle diving in Downeast Maine. Here is one of the nicer finds. A Dr. Kennedy's Rheumatic Liniment from Roxbury, MA. I have since cleaned up the inside staining. This one was poking out of the sand in a spot I hade previously dug. I'll...
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    Too big to recover

    While bottle diving the last few weeks in Maine I came upon an item that is too big to recever easily. At about 50 feet in a flat, gravel area I spotted a 40" diameter mill stone. Ships used to use these as ballast and dumped them from time to time. It has the typical square center hole and...
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    Back Diving in Maine for more bottles! - Balsam!

    Went to work for a week in Connecticut and returned to Maine for two more weeks of bottle diving. On the first dive I had really poor visibility, could not see more than 5', but found a very nice bottle. The bottle is my first balsam! It reads, "Vegetable Pulmonary Balsam". The really...
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    Finally back in the water - good finds.

    Well I've been of the forum for a bit due to a couple of collapsed disks in my neck numbing up my hands. However things are better now, still just a little numb from time to time. Anyway I was well enough to dive up in Maine and came up with a few finds that made me happy. On one dive I...
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    Gulp, my bottle diving area had a visitor.

    I do my bottle diving less than a mile from the area that this shark encounter occurred. Thankfully old bottles do not emit an electric current. http://www.bangordailynews.com/story/Downeast/Shark-pursues-Down-East-diver-off-Eastport,157291 I got spooked earlier this year by a pass from...

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