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  1. Hezezilla

    Help! Figural Cold Cream Container

    I bought this pot last week in a decent sized collection. A good mix of rarities and basic bottles. I feel like I've seen one of these before but I can't remember where. It's machine made with a bakelite screw lid. Not a ground lip so it is definitely 1915-1950 I suppose but, I'd like a...
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    Who Made This Unusual Japanese Beer?

    TLDR, I have a Japanese beer that I assume is pre-war but has a basemark from a glassworks in Pennsylvania. How old is it and was it indeed made in PA? Hi folks. Not often that I post one of my own bottles on here but I recently acquired this unusual Japanese beer from a friend of mine on Big...
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    Japanese Ink Bottles

    Hawaii recently had its largest antique show of the year. I bought a lot of super fascinating bottles and here are a few Japanese inks from the selection. These are all dug so unfortunately no labels remain. S.S.S. Fountain Pen Ink: The San-S Honpo Hosonuma Co. Ltd. was established in 1920 and...
  4. Hezezilla

    Japanese & Dutch Soy Sauce Pots

    I haven't posted about my Japanese Soy Sauce Pots on this site yet. I showcase a number of them in this video which is public on YouTube. Check it out if it interests you and I'll be happy to chat more about them.
  5. Hezezilla

    YouTube: Digging Bottles in Hawaii

    Wassup guys. I finally got around to filming a dig. The finds weren't super awesome but the types of finds are unique to Hawaii. Go check the full video out by clicking the link below! I don't dig often so there won't be regular uploads but when I do, the video will always be of the best quality...
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    I translated a paper on Japanese Soda

    I think I'm becoming the premier source of Japanese bottles on this site. Even in my local area, I feel like I'm slowly becoming an expert. I've been doing a lot of research on Japanese Soda companies recently and the latest source was all in Japanese. I put a lot of work into it and I feel like...
  7. Hezezilla

    Stoneware Chicken Waterer

    Hello from a cold and rainy Honolulu. We're due for some possible flooding this week. Thought I should make use of the first bit of sunlight I've seen all day to show off a new find. I was up in Hilo on Big Island the other week and stopped by the local Goodwill. Inside, they had four stoneware...
  8. Hezezilla

    Unsolvable Japanese Cider Bottle

    Hi guys. I got one big mystery bottle for you guys that I'm almost absolutely sure will never be solved. But on the off chance it does, I'll let you know. I have here a beautiful Japanese turn-mold cider bottle. It is very much akin to the early ring-necked Mitsuya cider bottles. I in fact...
  9. Hezezilla

    Unknown Bol's Dry Gin

    Hi guys. I visited a friend's house out in Wahiawa, HI. He gave me a literal milk crate of bottles, maybe 40 or so. Inside was this bottle. It's an applied top with "BOLS DRY GIN" embossed on the front. No base stamp or other marks. It almost looks repro but I know it's not since it has some...
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    Japanese Prescription bottle

    I'm growing my collection of Japanese bottles. Purchased this beauty a while ago but it just arrived in the mail. It's a Japanese prescription bottle from the " Tokyo Municipal Orthopedic Hospital". Probably dates to the 1930s but it's so difficult to date these bottles. It's a tooled top but...
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    Black Glass in MY YARD

    I'm ecstatic right now. I just need to tell someone else and write away my over excitement! I was planting some apple bananas in the yard and my Dad noticed a bit of glass popped out. Usually it's modern crap but today it was black glass. I live in an area that did NOT see significant...
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    Real or Repro? Pontiled Japanese Apothecary Jar

    Bought this little guy in July. Been meaning to post but forgot. I bought em at this second-hand home goods store in Tokyo. At first I was certain of it being repro but then I noticed they had a few genuine tooled-top pieces and Uranium Glassware. I bought this one in particular because of what...
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    Finds from a Reservoir

    I went camping recently on a private 50 acre lot just southwest of Haleiwa Beach. The local farmhand told us about some bottles he found nearby the irrigation reservoir on the lot. Most of it was smashed long ago or had fallen off the cliff into the gulch. The Waialua SW bottle is a good...
  14. Hezezilla

    How to probe in hard ground?

    I have permission to dig around an old house built in 1916. I have reason to believe there is a trash pit somewhere in the yard but the topsoil is heavily compacted. I can hardly get a probe in the ground and I don't want to go around digging blindly. How do I get the probe through the...
  15. Hezezilla

    Digging in da Jungle

    Was invited to go digging in the foothills of the Ko'olau Mts. The place was quite hilly and was once home to 7 or so residences. The guys a couple years back brought in an excavator, dug a trench, and pulled 4000+ bottles of which about 300 were sodas. 1890s to 1940s I think they said. We're...
  16. Hezezilla

    Digging in Japan

    I'm in Japan right now and got the chance to go digging on Thursday (for you in America, that would be Wednesday). Went up way in the mountains looking for a village founded in 1888 and abandoned in 1972. The place had at one point had 14 houses. No one lives there anymore. It's pretty...
  17. Hezezilla

    Cleanest ketchup I ever did see!

    Picked dis baby up out of the Jungle in Hawaii. It was sitting on the surface for decades and one would expect it to be terribly sick. Strangely enough, soap and water alone brought it back to looking brand new! Gonna give it to my friend who went digging with me that day. The Burnett's extract...
  18. Hezezilla

    Found the Motherload

    So in Hawaii, generations of bottle diggers have picked up most of the good bottle spots. By the grace of God, I stumbled upon one just off the famed Manoa Falls hiking trail. I'm talking hundreds of bottles on the surface and who knows how many more beneath! I have a feeling that it may have...
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    Japanese Medicine Bottle

    Howzit guys. A friend of mine gave me a bunch of bottles a while back but I only got around to really looking at them recently. The most interesting bottles inside the box were two Orientals and a Dai Nippon Beer. Awesome little bottles. They've got some bad sickness but a dip in some acid...
  20. Hezezilla

    New Liberty Soda W. Co. Hutch

    Wassup guys. I went to the Hawaii Collector's Expo Yesterday and one of the vendors gave me this hutch free-99. No idea what it is or how much it's worth. I looked it up on hutchbook but I was not satisfied with the amount of detail on there. My example does not appear to have any big chips or...

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