Roadtoad, That is certainly a most iinteresting flask you have acquired. The crude applied lip would definitely make your flask quite old. You should be able to find out much information here. Nice pictures...details came out great. Awesome find.
Hello Fellow Diggers, I was just wondering if anyone else out there had any information on this bottle. Any and all help would be appreciated. Thanks Nick
I dug this one last week. Embossed, reads; 16OZ. DR.E.E.BURNSIDES Purifico C.W.DIFFIN ASHVILLE N.Y. USA. BRIDGEBURG, ONT. CANADA. MANUFACTURING CHEMIST
Kent Ohio,
Perhaps an object might be better with a story behind it. I sincerely believe this bottle,however.can stand alone upon its own merit. I posted such a lengthy family history simply because I thought it might be of some aide in obtaining an accurate dateline for the bottle.This bottle...
Craig,
Very nice find indeed! Nothing quenched a summer thirst quite like an ice cold Frostie Root Beer. Those were the days. Those bottles are in most excellent condition.
Happy digging
Howdy fellow diggers,
My father was digging here in central New York back in the 1960's at the foundation of John Rockerfellow, father of Nelson Rockerfellow. He told me he didn't find much. One thing he did turn up was an old axe head. To quote him directly "That guy was so cheap. He...
Hello Gentlemen, Old hippies, now that seems to ring a bell. Here in central new york...either you were or you weren't. If my memory serves me correctly, I know those brain cells are in here somewhere, I must have been. My first car was a 1964 chevelle convertible, followed by my 1967 camaro...
Kent Ohio, thank you for your reply. How do you explain the air bubbles and applied top, as I was under the impression that bubbles and applied tops had been eliminated long before 1940.
any information concerning this bottle would be much appreciated. the bottle is deep emerald green and approximately 6" tall by 6" wide. about 3 3/4" deep. i believe it to have a base of the cup mold variety although the seam around the base is extremely hard to detect, if it is there at all. an...