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  1. moodorf

    Yellow Ware Figural Match holder w/strikeplate

    I managed to find an less common piece of yellow ware at an antique store; a match holder with strikeplate. Each side of the pedestal has a strike plate. The "33" could be 1933-- year of manufacture. It could be a bit more or less older than that. I have no idea who the subject of the figural...
  2. moodorf

    Ceramic Umbrella Stands

    Another super-condensed informal history bit: Although various home made forms of Umbrella holders have existed since (obviously) the invention of the Umbrella, the earliest forms of what could today be called Umbrella stands existed as mere components of large wooden Victorian Hall Stands in...
  3. moodorf

    Why hello there, yellow ware

    I started collecting Yellow Ware. I still enjoy Antique Bottles and Antique Stoneware but now I'm adding yellow ware to the list. Should I paste a short definition of Yellow ware for the uninitiated? Sure? okay. British Yellow Ware The earliest British yellow ware production began in Glasgow...
  4. moodorf

    So hot, almost too hot to dig!

    Really it's been in the 80's so many days out here I haven't really been able to dig since Late May/June. I might go as far as saying that July and probably August are not good months for digging. Anyway, today we had some temps in the high 60's and none of that haze so here's the result of my...
  5. moodorf

    Anyone want to help me date a Stoneware Jar?

    I recently bought this Jar at a local antique store. At least I think it's a jar. I figured it was made in a 19th century kiln. But I'm not 100% sure what part of the 19th century it's from. It almost looks like an ovoid jar, but I don't know if I'd call it an ovoid jar because it's at it's...
  6. moodorf

    ID on a clay/ceramic marble

    I already posted pics of this marble in a digging forum topic, but I wanted to ask about it in Marbles because I'm very curious about it. UnderMiner suggested that it's a 19th century marble--and I agree--but every time I try to google "antique clay marble" for comparable images or similar...
  7. moodorf

    Today's finds

    Today I forgot my phone for my dig, so no in situ pics sorry. Wouldn't have been a good day for it anyway since it was trying to rain during the digging. I dealt with the weather and had some luck though: I managed to dig up an insulator. First time I've found one hidden completely...
  8. moodorf

    DumpHuntin'

    Today I was scouting out a new area looking for dumps. A lot of it I worked out on google maps today; I sort of picked a public spot adjacent to both a cemetery and creek/ravine. I drove out there and got out of my car searching around. I started thinking: Man what was I thinking. I really...
  9. moodorf

    A probing question for you all

    I think it might be time to invest in a bottle probe. I haven't used one this first year or so digging because I've been exclusively digging the creekbanks/side of ravines (areas on something of an incline) and have never had to do more than scrape off the first foot or two of soil (and let...
  10. moodorf

    I found intact antique pottery for the first time. I think.

    I think I may have found some antique stoneware/porcelain but I don't know enough about it to really date it. anyway I had the phone handy for pics today :) this thing came out all at once, from underneath those roots to the left. I think it's one of those wax seal jars? After some cleaning...
  11. moodorf

    Another new antique Ball Jar

    Back at it digging today. Ignoring my own rule, I brought along my phone for pictures. I actually found a triple loop Ball jar, so it seems my silly superstition regarding it was unfounded. So maybe I'll have more 'digging' pics in the future. It was a surface find, at the base of a little tiny...
  12. moodorf

    welp, I just had literally the most successful day in bottle hunting I've ever had.

    Today was amazing. Background: this area today I dug today I had dug a little before last fall, but I had sort of dismissed because the oldest/most desirable bottles I found near the surface were cool but aren't really my thing. Some 30's 40's art deco sort of bottles. but no cork top or...
  13. moodorf

    Kind of a strange ceramic insulator

    I saw this at a store. Pretty sure it's an insulator but I've never seen one quite like it before. I almost think it's a very early type of ceramic insulator. I could be wrong.
  14. moodorf

    First successful bottle hunt of the year

    It's only my second bottle hunt of the year, first one was skunked, but this time..... success. I believe age-wise this fits into the "barely an antique" category. 1910's - 1920's. I also read online that *Supposedly* this is another one of those quack medicines that didn't really have any...
  15. moodorf

    J-J-J-J-JUGGGGGS

    Oh boy, do I have a great pair of jugs to show you fine folks! The first one is this sort of ovoid Albany Slip jug, I think it's a quart size? maybe? My local expert estimates 1850's on the age. Bought it locally here in western NY. The second jug is another ovoid one, this one I believe...
  16. moodorf

    M C H Stoneware (probably beer or ginger beer) bottle

    I bought this in my travels. The only marking of any kind on it is the M C H...although that last H is kind of debatable. Could be a weird looking W or A. anyone got any info ?
  17. moodorf

    What are the oldest types of antiques?

    I was wondering since I'm still somewhat new to this antique bottles/antiques in general hobby, what're the oldest antique items being sold today? at a price an average working person could afford? Not just bottles but like, anything? I started this hobby by digging turn of the century bottles...
  18. moodorf

    It's a delicious ravioliovioid jug!

    Through craigslist I have acquired a stoneware jug, I had my local go-to guy (who owns a very nice/successful antique store) appraise it for age which he estimated to be 1830's to 1840's. I bought the jug from a man who bought the jug from an antique dealer in Albany, NY. He even gave me the...
  19. moodorf

    German Stoneware

    I recently bought this nice German stoneware pitcher. The only sort of lettering I see on it is a 7 I almost bought this pitcher/jug at the store, but it had a nasty chip on the inside: From what I can gather from articles online, the type of Stoneware/pottery of the first pitcher is...
  20. moodorf

    my first proper Stoneware Jug

    Idk why it's taken me so long to buy a properly old Jug like this.... for a while I was holding out hope I would find some intact stoneware during one of my bottle hunts. It still could happen. Anyway, here it is. If someone could help me date it that'd be great. Pretty much no damage...

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