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    Phoenix flask rescued from the ruins

    This 1 pint face embossed Phoenix flask was dug in a privy in Sacramento a few years ago, barely ahead of the demolition crew.
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    Cundurango

    Here are couple of my Cundurango bottles. The definition of what the word Cundurango follows..Cun`du*ran"go (k?n`d?-r?n"g?), n. (Med.) The bark of a South American vine ( Gonolobus Condurango) of the Milkweed family. It has been supposed, but erroneously, to be a cure for cancer. The...
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    Bottle of wine

    Not a new find, just one that has been sitting in the cool basement for some years. Vintage 1911 3/4 pint bottle of A.P.Hotaling's California Zinfandel with full to the neck contents that is now undoubtedly vinegar. No problem, it will not be opened anyway.
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    New score

    I didn't dig this one, but managed to acquire it this afternoon with a soft silver pick. Really a steal, and I'm happy to add it to the group of Hotaling's bottles and other items in my little collection. Light yellow amber, heavily whittled and with a nicely applied top. Embossed from shoulder...
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    Newest Addition

    The opportunity FINALLY arose for me to purchase a bottle that I have lusted after for close to 25 years. Not wanting to bother with a slightly damaged or repaired example I held out for a sparkling mint specimen of the PMSS whiskey. PMSS stands for Pacific Mail Steamship Co and the bottles...
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    Another find from yesterday

    A friend had called me about this Ruhstaller ice box handle and I told him that I would take it. It has Capt. Frank Ruhstaller's head and an "R" on the bottom. These are quite rare and usually sell for around $400, but this was a 10th of that. Just as cruddy as it was used, it'll stay as-is. No...
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    Today's bottle show buys

    Three of us trucked on down the the Golden Gate Bottle Club's annual show in Antioch, CA, this morning and after cruising the floor for hours I came home with three bottles and a icebox handle from a local brewery. The bottles are a sweet little cherry puce OP Lyons Powder, a green small size IP...
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    Bbad diggin' day.

    Today we got into two dipped out pits. They are scarce around here, but we managed to scare up a couple in one morning and afternoon. Good bottles crunched into the corners and mangelated to bits. We did get a couple of Dr. Kings junkers and a few locals but hardly anything worth bringing home...
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    Miner's pick

    These are not actually unexpected when searching the sites of long abandoned miner's cabins, but finding a locally manufactured one is an exception. This small crevice pick was made in the 1850s by R. K. Wick, a pick-maker whose place of business was located on 6th St between I and J Sts, here...
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    Today!

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    Chico, CA

    Next Friday and Saturday, 9 and 10 March, in the Bidwell Bottle Club's annual show at the Silver Dollar Fairground. There is usually some nice glass making appearance at that show.
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    Good One?

    English, but dug in SF. Boxed away for decades and traded away today. Spendy little bugger.
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    D. Mortimore, St. Louis

    Jim Schmidt's post on Facebook about Mortimore made me think of a pontiled bottle that I dug in Sacramento many years ago. It was about 5-6" tall, as I recall, and maybe 6 sided. The embossing was on five panels and read, D. Mortimore's/ Great/American/Fever & Ague/Tonic. I have not seen nor...
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    Cathedrals

    I took some of my pickles out back for some air yesterday afternoon. They have been cooped up inside forever and the air did them some good. The tallest is 14". It was cloudy but you'll get the picture.[;)]
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    Lyon's powder...

    and other bug bottles wanted. Need only unusual colors such as apricot, lemon, lime, and other "fruity" colors.[8D]
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    Another unknown

    Caldigs' post about the unknown bottle inspired me to post this one that I dug from an early Sacramento privy. The bottles in that pit were a mixture of OP and IP with a handful of early smoothies thrown in. The one is clear flint glass, has the earliest smooth base, and a very strange top. I...
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    Funny encounter last evening

    We stopped at a grocery after eating fish and chips at a local brewpub, and while cruising the aisles a young black woman walked up and said "How are you?" I recognized her as one who's privy we had dug last winter and I started to panic. Uh-oh, I was thinking, what did we screw up? Not to...
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    This is why I suffer TOC pits

    Once in a blue moon a late privy will turn out a rare bottle, and this certainly meets the criteria. This mold is extremely rare, with maybe 3 in existence that I am aware of. For a toolie the bottle is quite crude, with slumped in body, heavily whittled, and weird mold plates.[8D]
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    Today's pit, UGH

    We dug the second pit this afternoon and I got zero to take home. My buddy filled 2 buckets with common junkers, but there was not a thing that interested me. There could've been, but the majority of the decent embossed whiskies and beers were smasholad. Plenty of no namers, inks, blue Wyeths...
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    Slammed a privy this afternoon

    I actually dig my first pit since my cancer was discovered last April. Now that it's very nearly in the past I had a chance to get out this afternoon after receiving an inviting call from my digging partner. The area we probed is behind a late 1870s house that is for sale. The fenced portion of...

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