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  1. woods_walker

    Nice pair of ghost town milk bottles

    Haven’t posted here in a while but I thought I’d share this set of rare local milk bottles from a northern Michigan ghost town! I completed the set earlier this year thanks to a trade I made with a another local collector. I dug the pint in the beginning of 2020. Sent from my iPhone using...
  2. woods_walker

    What was this bottle that looks like a upside down funnel?

    Dug this up yesterday and I’m really curious to know if anybody has a picture of what this thing looked like as a complete bottle. I’ve certainly never see a top like that where the neck and the lip are blended together as one. I’m mostly finding 20s bottles in this dump but there is older 1800s...
  3. woods_walker

    The Finest Beer Bottle. Need help with I.D. Please

    Found this yesterday, I’d like to think it’s pre prohibition but it also could be early 1930’s its machine made. I found a few similar on eBay but none with labels. And then I found this label which looks to be 1930’s. Could it be the label for this bottle? Another Bay City, MI bottle was found...
  4. woods_walker

    Test hole dug on my First privy/trash pit?

    Found a nice depression in the ground at an old house site. I used my 16” homemade probe to test it for glass. Found the bottom to a small crock maybe 12” deep so decided to come back with a shovel to dig a test hole. Got about 2 feet down and this is what I’ve found so far. Few other bits of...
  5. woods_walker

    ~Barn wood, Beer Bottles & Insulators~

    The new shelf I built today from reclaimed barn wood. I added some battery powered lights my wife had lying around to make it a night time display. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  6. woods_walker

    Recent finds from the flask dump

    I headed back out to a surface dump I came across this spring and took along a probe I made from some 3/16” steel rod I had laying around. It’s L shaped and about 16” in length. It works perfect for most of the dumps I find that are just below the surface and usually full of roots. I can poke...
  7. woods_walker

    Playing with bricks

    I found a few more bricks recently and wanted to display them better so this is what I came up with. Im hoping to collect enough to do something bigger in the future, but for now I like it and no more mud in front of the faucet. [emoji1360] Before power washing After Sent from my...
  8. woods_walker

    Looking for some info on this ginger beer.

    I picked this up at an antique mall in Medina, Oh some years ago when I first got into bottle digging. The story behind it is me and my girlfriend were walking around and I knew I wanted a ginger beer but didn’t want to spend a lot. I came across a blank one for maybe 7$ and planned to come back...
  9. woods_walker

    Detroit Blob Top

    I haven’t been lucky enough to dig a blob top so I decided to buy one to add to the collection of Michigan beers. It was sealed when I got it with the original contents dried up inside it. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  10. woods_walker

    WTB/WTT Alpena, Michigan Beers

    I want to put this out there to see if there are any beer/soda bottles from Alpena, Michigan available. Here are some examples of embossing they would have. John Beck Brewery Alpena Brewing Company Pioneer Brewing Company J. Dehring Brewing John Beck Malting and Brewing Beck Beverage Company...
  11. woods_walker

    Yesterday’s keepers

    When all your finding is 70’s junk on a regular basis it’s nice to stumble on to a few older flasks. [emoji1360] I date them somewhere around 1905-1920. BBQ chicken, jalapeño cheddar brats, and sweet potatoes for dinner after a nice day in the woods.
  12. woods_walker

    Blue letter crock (beach glass) shard

    Found on a Lake Huron beach in northern Michigan. I’m wondering if anybody could identify this piece? It’s my favorite piece of beach stoneware I’ve found so far, I think it’s incredible how the glaze has protected the lettering from wearing away over a hundred years in the lake. Sent...
  13. woods_walker

    Small dump found on my property

    80’s beer bottles found yesterday. I live on a private road out in the woods so I decided to clean the ditches after work and came across this. Someone dumped a bag full of beers back in the day. There is no real history in the area I live in other than a road that used to go threw my back yard...
  14. woods_walker

    I finally found a milk and it’s local!!

    Got out after work on Thursday to dig a 40-50s dump. Still plenty of snow on the ground so I had to get down threw snow and a frozen layer of dirt before hitting the good layer. Pulled out a few decent bottles before finding the milk.... After 3 years of bottle hunting I thought it was just...
  15. woods_walker

    Stoneware repair?

    Crude stoneware insulator I found last fall. Would love to see it restored but not sure if it would be possible. Looking for recommendations if possible. Maybe someone could put a date to this thing to. :)
  16. woods_walker

    What the heck is this thing?

    I found it almost 2 years ago in a northeast ohio dump. No clue what it is and would like to find out. It’s 12 inches long with some damage at the bottom end. I think it looks like a cane handle.
  17. woods_walker

    What’s your favorite beer bottle surface find?

    It doesn’t have to be valuable or rare it could even have damage Im just curious to see what you guys have found for beer bottles laying on the surface. No dug bottles, surface finds only! Here’s my favorite. Found it on the surface last fall with maybe 10 or so other aqua beers mainly from...
  18. woods_walker

    How to display a ketchup bottle

    My wife found a way to make a ketchup bottle displayable :)
  19. woods_walker

    Masons Patent Nov 30th 1858 question

    I got this jar and several other similar ones from my moms collection and always thought the heart embossed on the base was different. Has anybody else seen this before? It has a really nice ground lip and is in perfect condition. I’m also wondering how to date this style of jar. Thanks for any...
  20. woods_walker

    I can’t go digging so I might as well buy some bottles. (UPDATED WITH PHOTOS)

    The last thing I like to do is spend money on bottles when I can dig them for free but there’s to much snow to dig and I think i see some local beer bottles in this bunch that I’ve been after for a few years. Going to the guys house today to take a look and really hope those aqua bottles are...

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