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  1. UnderMiner

    Huge Blob Top Beer Bottle Hoard (New Personal Record) 4/19/2024

    I dug all these bottles from the mud today. Apparently someone really liked David Mayer beer 120 years ago. All the bottles were in the same area so I think it was the same person drinking them and stashing them, but they never came back to cash their deposits. Bottles include: 1. David Mayer...
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    Portholes From a Shipwreck

    These are some portholes I found a few days ago. I think they are part of an old wooden yacht that was beached/sunk in the area around 100 years ago. All the glass is intact and the hinges and wing nuts still work: The two seven-inch portholes in situ: The five-inch porthole in situ...
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    Cool, a 3 Cent Deposit Milk Bottle! - Amityville Creamery Inc. Found: 4/6/2024

    Found this Amityville Creamery Inc. milk bottle today in the low tide. It has a big 3 Cent deposit embossed on both sides, how cool is that! It was made by Owens-Illinois in either 1933 or 1943. In situ: Fresh from the mud:
  4. UnderMiner

    Transitional Hutchinson - The Ideal Mineral Water MFG. Co. - Found 4/5/2024

    Found an interesting bottle today. It has the body style of a Hutch but looks to have been sealed with a lightning stopper. In situ: Fresh from the mud: I have this kind of Hutchinson bottle morphology going on in the display cabinet now...
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    19th Century Cobalt Glazed Ceramic Inkwell

    Was excavating a 100+ year old area today and just as the sun began to set I discovered this amazing hand painted glazed ceramic inkwell. It appears to be a type used in the early 19th century for quill pens, though I am still not quite certain as to the proper name for this style of inkwell...
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    Stoneware Ginger Beer Bottle - Buchan Portobello Pottery

    I was searching the woods today around where an old Victorian mansion once stood and found the scattered fragments of a ceramic bottle. I collected the fragments and reconstructed what I had to make this: It isn't complete but there is more than enough to see one full side, and it just so...
  7. UnderMiner

    John Lumb & Co. Bottle

    I found this bottle today. It is a British imported soda bottle made in Castleford Yorkshire England by John Lumb & Co. between 1870-1905. Interestingly, this bottle was made without tooling. The two piece mold seam, which is quite wide, extends completely from the bottle's base all the way to...
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    Edgar Breffit & Co. Jar - Applied Lip (1880's)

    Found this old jar under the mud today. It is marked "E B & Co" on the bottom which stands for "Edgar Breffit & Company". The company used this name and abbreviation between 1880-1884. In 1884 E B & Co became a limited liability company and their name changed to "Edgar Breffit & Company...
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    Bruckner Bros. Successors To Stephen Garland - Early 1890's Blob Top

    Got in a quick hunt today before the sun went down and found this large blob-top bottle under the mud. It is a scarce Bruckner Bros. bottle from around 1892-1894 when John and Henery Bruckner had just taken over from the well established business of Stephen Garland (who had been operating since...
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    Huge Blob Top Bottle Haul (Feb. 5th - Feb. 7th 2024)

    These are all bottles I recovered from a series of hunts I conducted on 2/5 2/6 and 2/7. Bottles include from left to right: 1. Fred W. Fleer from Graham Ave. Brooklyn. Circle slug with horseshoe. 2. Chas H. Bevers from Hastings 'On the Hudson' NY 3. Lembeck and Betz from Jersey City NJ...
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    D. G. Yuengling - NYC Variant

    Today's finds: 1. H. Straehle, New Rochelle NY 2. Beadleston & Woerz Empire Brewery (1878-1920) 3. D. G. Yuengling New York (1880's-1897) 4. U-NO-US (You Know Us) Bruckner Beverages 406-414 E. 161st Street NY 5. Thos. E. Morrisey, 169 Java Street NY 6. Bowl from the New York City Central...
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    James Buchanan & Co. Whiskey

    This is a James Buchanan & Co. LTD scotch whiskey bottle I found today. It dates from the 1910's-1920's. This is the second example I have found in this area. It has an applied top, which was surprisingly still a common feature on many British bottles in the early 20th century. Fresh from the...
  13. UnderMiner

    First Hunt of 2024 - Circle Slug Flask, Tooled Crown Beer, etc.

    Some finds from the hunt I conducted yesterday. Included is a perfect condition tooled-crown Theo Young amber beer bottle. Theo Young operated from 1884-1906, meaning this bottle has likely been sitting undisturbed in the open for at least 118 years, that's 6 years prior to the sinking of the...
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    100+ YO Pharmacy Bottle From the Low Tide Mud

    Found this bottle in the low tide mud last night. It is for S. James Alterman Co. Pharmacy which operated on 55 & 6 Broadway in NYC. I haven't been able to find any information on the company as of yet. Bottle is blown in mold with tooled top. Was just free floating on the surface. You can see...
  15. UnderMiner

    Victorian Champagne Vault

    Below the base of the Brooklyn Bridge the 19th century Pol Roger & Co. champagne cellar still stands to this day. You can even see the imperial crest of Queen Victoria, who authorized Pol Roger as the official champagne of the Royal Family in 1877. This vault was in use to store the champagne...
  16. UnderMiner

    Victorian Ironstone Found, Repaired and Put Back to Use

    I was digging at my 1924-capped landfill last week looking for bottles when I saw the outline of a white ceramic rim appear about 2 feet under the bottom layer of mud. Encased in several layers of compacted newspaper I imagined this artifact could still be in good condition. I took my time and...
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    1895 Bolen & Byrne Soda and a 5 Cent Milk Jug

    Found these two bottles today. The Bolen & Byrne in situ: Immediately after a quick rinse: The bottle isn't perfect as it has a chipped lip but otherwise it is in nice condition. The 5 Cent milk jug is marked "Store Bottle": Later at home I noticed the Bolen & Byrne bottle had a date...
  18. UnderMiner

    Ground Zero - Salvaging Wine Bottles

    On 9/11/2001 the World Trade Center towers were destroyed. The debris from the collapse scattered over a large area and burried many smaller buildings. These small buildings contained many luxury stores, and for many months they were completely sealed under over 50 feet of steel and concrete, a...
  19. UnderMiner

    Doct. Marshall's Snuff, Hoster, J. M. Donnelly Beer, etc.

    Today's finds: 1. Doct. Marshall's Catarrh Snuff, Illinois Glass pre-1929. 2. Colorite 3. Hoster Columbus A. B. CO. 4. J. M. Donnelly Regal Lager Beer J. M. Donnelly in situ: Hoster in situ: Doct. Marshall's Catarrh Snuff:
  20. UnderMiner

    Stoneware Jug of H. C. Bohack

    I dug up fragments of this stoneware jug and pieced them back together. The jug is incomplete but has a fascinating history. It was made for H. C. Bohack Co. which was a family owned chain of grocery stores founded in 1887 by German immigrant Henry Christian Bohack. Henry C. Bohack: Bohack...

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