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  1. Old man digger

    Screw Top Coca Cola

    I do not collect these bottles, but I would like to know how to date a screw top Coke bottle. They are clear and one has a cap within the screw cap. Any ideas on dating these would be helpful. Thanks, OMD
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    JAR DOCTORS TUMBLING MACHINES

    I have the chance to purchase a Jar Doctors Machine. I would like to hear from this forum, what do you think of the machines. LIKES/DISLIKES and one thing that is important to me is the noise. Are they noisy or quiet? Cost of tumbling material and can that material be salvaged and...
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    Another Addition to the Quack Doctors' Bag of Tricks

    Here is an interesting addition to my Quack Bag. This is an item that the doctor may have also carried, to rid a persons bed of bedbugs!!! This one still works, but I have not put any medication in it.
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    What Doctor Quack/Snake Oil Salesman. might have carried their products in...

    I looked for a case that a doctor may have carried in the late 1800's or at least before the Food and Drug people got their say, in what you could tell people what your product really contained. I almost made it but the earliest case I could find and afford on a retiree's salary dates back to...
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    Prohibition Bottles SPIDERS & WEBS

    I normally don't collect bottles before 1860's with a few exceptions. This particular part of our history as a country has peaked my interest for awhile now. I do not know all the types of bottles produced during that era, (1920-1933) but the Spiders have captured my attention. The only way to...
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    Old Quack/ Snake Oil Medicines

    Would like to see some of these bottles that others have collected. What are the weirdest sayings or claims that make you laugh or at least smile? Mine is the Pre-Digested Food Co. bottle. I don't know what this bottle actually contained. Pine Apples were not well know in the US when these...
  8. Old man digger

    Hi, from Shermans Dale Pa.

    I have been collecting and digging since 1962. I am interested in all pre-1900 bottles. I like to save all the "QUACK" medicine bottles that I find that are in perfect shape. When in the Canal Zone I dug many dumps from the 1850's all the way up till the 1890's. One of my favorite bottles is the...
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    Shermans Dale, Pa

    Would like to find someone in Perry County Pa. in the area of Shermans Dale, to dig with. I have a metal detector and I am willing to travel in the county to look for pre-1900 bottle.

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