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  1. eddeeeddee

    Digging an 1870 to 1915 bottle plant up date. QUESTIONS

    Hi Leaon. So I don't trade bottles like that. the bottles that I collect I dig my self. That way there is some personal connection to me and the bottle. I might be willing to sell it though. So this Vance's Ginger Ale I can find no info on it. Not a price of what its worth or no history of the...
  2. eddeeeddee

    Digging an 1870 to 1915 bottle plant up date. QUESTIONS

    no insulators except for a white small on about the size of a silver dollar
  3. eddeeeddee

    Digging an 1870 to 1915 bottle plant up date. QUESTIONS

    The first foot or so is forest litter or duff I think they call it, but the natural ground is clay. It looks like when they built house's here in the 40's they bull dozed every thing over the side of the hill
  4. eddeeeddee

    Digging an 1870 to 1915 bottle plant up date. QUESTIONS

    No there actually packed full of clay and a bitch to get clean. I dig a day then the next day I research all the bottles I find and try and clean them up a bit then I post in here
  5. eddeeeddee

    Digging an 1870 to 1915 bottle plant up date. QUESTIONS

    Hello wonderful bottle people. How all y'all doin ?? Just an update from the bottle mine. So went out digging on Monday and Wednesday. Monday sucked, So I found my self up against a bunch of rail road track and that's pretty much impossible to dig through. I Only found three slick rick soda...
  6. eddeeeddee

    Digging an 1870 to 1915 bottle plant up date. QUESTIONS

    Yes I have a pic of the coke. The bottle says Coca Cola under that TRADEMARK REGISTERED At the Base CHARELSTON BOTTLING WORKS. On the other side it has the coca cola thing like the front, but on the base it says CONTENTS 6 1/2 FLUID OUNCES. On the heel D.O.C. 1183. On the Bottom Coca Cola...
  7. eddeeeddee

    Digging an 1870 to 1915 bottle plant up date. QUESTIONS

    This whole area was very industrialized from about 1875 to about 1925 due to all the coal production here. It was the primary coal source for the USA during that time period. Most of the towns were along the New River and this place is about 2 miles a way form there as the crow flies. A lot of...
  8. eddeeeddee

    Digging an 1870 to 1915 bottle plant up date. QUESTIONS

    I'm not sure David. Its odd to me too. I have found a lot of what looks like slag and melted aqua glass and coal. Also I'm finding a lot of hutches that are blank and crown tops that are blank. as far as labels They only have a circle where the label would go. I have found 42 different labels...
  9. eddeeeddee

    Digging an 1870 to 1915 bottle plant up date. QUESTIONS

    Thanks there are plenty there. I found what looks like a layer of hutches but they are very packed in a hard clay. Its slow going to get them dislodged I still had 7 in the hole when I left the other day. Monday I'll be back at it.
  10. eddeeeddee

    Digging an 1870 to 1915 bottle plant up date. QUESTIONS

    Thanks I'll have to try that. I was cleaning on and the stopper broke and now is stuck in the bottle.
  11. eddeeeddee

    Digging an 1870 to 1915 bottle plant up date. QUESTIONS

    Leon thanks for the info Very impressive soda collection. I'm in aw
  12. eddeeeddee

    Digging an 1870 to 1915 bottle plant up date. QUESTIONS

    Hello all you wonderful bottle people. Well it day 3 of digging this old Bottle Manufacturing plant. So far I have found 22 Hutch bottles that are whole. I have found 7 crown tops that are whole and 8 billion crown tops with broken tops. I'm amazed that I'm finding so many whole hutch bottles...
  13. eddeeeddee

    I have Access to an old bottling plant from 1870 to 1915 update

    Hi Leon So the seam line goes up the top but stops right at the edge of the part that the cap is attached too the seam don't go all the to the little ring on top. I'm thinking early machine made ?
  14. eddeeeddee

    I have Access to an old bottling plant from 1870 to 1915 update

    Hello all you bottle people. You guys and girls are all so great Thanks for your input. I guess I will continued to up date on this thread so I don't have to make a new on every time i find cool stuff from this spot. Okay so yesterday was a very good day. I shed no red. Can you Say SCORE...
  15. eddeeeddee

    Have Access to old bottling plant that operated from 1870 to 1915

    Hello Hello Kolawars. So I started my dig and today was the second day. It was a good day. The first bottle I pulled out of the hole was a crown top KANAWHA CELERY COLA CHARLSTON W. Va. with a chip on the crown and what looks like a bubble blow out on the side but not through the bottle On the...
  16. eddeeeddee

    Threw away sooo many bottles

    I like that Idea of notes in the bottle That is something I would do. I can't imagine people in a 100 years from now all gathering around in aw of their 2022 Natural Ice beer bottle they just dug and 'look its got a partial label you can almost read it ' lol
  17. eddeeeddee

    I have Access to an old bottling plant from 1870 to 1915 update

    Thanks Len I will put that purple trowel on my mantle in a place of honor, I'll be back out there digging tomorrow with a new pair of thicker gloves and a new appreciation for broken glass
  18. eddeeeddee

    I have Access to an old bottling plant from 1870 to 1915 update

    Iggyworf did you dig it yourself??? They are suppose to be scarce meaning there are less than a 100 of them out there
  19. eddeeeddee

    I have Access to an old bottling plant from 1870 to 1915 update

    The most common ones was Loop Creek bottling and ice-cream company, I found 20 of them but i was checking some of them out that had broken tops tonight and I noticed that two of them have the exact same injury to them. Its a oval chunk about the size of a thumb print that has been removed form...
  20. eddeeeddee

    I have Access to an old bottling plant from 1870 to 1915 update

    Thank you Leon for the link. Wow Mine is like The first one but I have to say it says in the comments that the lion is fat and the lion on this hutch looks like its on a diet. Look kind of skinny to me Could it be the only one like it ????

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