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    LYONS POWDERS and similar shaped INSECT POWDERS!

    Always looking for LYON"S POWDER BOTTLES and similar shaped insect powders for my personal collection as well as for future book on insect powders. Especially interested in large sizes and odd colors, also new companies or variations of existing ones that I may not know about. Also happy to...
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    Forum members-Please HELP!

    Hi everyone, Can anyone please help me in contacting a fellow member called" DEEP DIGGER". Maybe some of you even know him personally and can forward this message to him. I have some very important and advantageous information for him which I feel he would like to have. Maybe I'll be lucky and...
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    Calling all insect powders!HELP!

    Hi everyone at the antique bottle forum!Please keep me in mind for interesting Lyons powders and other bug bottles of similar shape that you may come accross! As many of you know I'm the BUGGIEST for these little bottles-thay are all I COLLECT!!!! So please drop me a line,let me know what you...
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    Super glassworks auction!

    Every digger who enjoys not only a bottles beauty but also its provenance will really enjoy looking at bottles from the Charlie Clark collection currantly running in Glassworks,"Cabin Fever" auction! Charlie is my good friend and digging buddy and has amassed a wonderful collection of umbrella...
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    Attention all diggers!

    Greetings bottle diggers- You may want to check out the Glassworks auction going on right now-CABIN FEVER especially if you like bottles that came out of old privys! My good friend and digging buddy Charlie Clark has compiled an awsome collection of dug items in exceptionally fine condition...
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    ANIMALS IN THE PIT'S

    Anybody who knows me and my name(pupman) knows we love our two dogs,Bear and Dunkin but who expects to find all these different critters in the privy's?All are 100% intact as found in 1850's outhouses and are part of my wife's "dog and animal "collection. Thought everybody,especially all our...
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    Staten Island beers and soda's for sale

    Anybody on the forum interested in buying Staten Island blob beers and soda's? One is a very nice weiss beer which I am sure is far from common. If I get any interest from this posting I will supply pictures and details,thanks,Kev
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    Lyons powders wanted

    Always looking to trade or buy Lyon's powder and similar insect powder bottles! Dug a good one ,keep me in mind! Thank you,Kev
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    2 Dr. Miles cures for collectors

    I thought I might offer these two Dr Miles cures to forum members before running them on e-bay. The small sample bottle is relatively scarce and hard to find. Both for $40.00 + shipping which is less than I paid for the sample bottle alone. Anyone interested,write me ,first come first serve,Kev
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    looking hard for a little aqua bottle

    Really looking for a Lyons powder in aqua,this bottle will have a snapcase(to my knowledge none of the aqua examples were pontiled).Can be cloudy and stained -$$$ paid for an aqua Lyons,I have one but unfortunatly the neck was loped off as Mr.Lyon told people to throw the bottle at the insects...
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    Please help me with suggestions!

    Hi Guys,When it comes to bottles nobody knows everything and I learn somthing everyday about bottles that I didn't know before. I am having trouble getting the inside of my insect powders clean,mostly the necks ,which,when they dry show what looks like water stains. They aren't terrible but as...
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    A roach is a roach,of course ,of course.

    If you think all roaches are created equal,guess again! Here are two embossed insect powders from my collection embossed POOLE'S AMERICAN INSECT POWDER and POOLE'S INSECT POWDER. Obiously you coul never tell which critter you'd run accross,better have both on hand! Late 1860's-1870's ,privy dug-...
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    See you at BALTIMORE!

    Anybody interested in coming by and showing me any intersting insect powder bottles,I will be set up as usual at the biggest bottle show in the east,Baltimore at table K5 selling some reasonably priced cures! If you are a member of the antique bottle forum,let me know and get a $5 discount...
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    It's the BUG man...again!!!!!

    While I was replying to another e-mail in a different part of the forum I thought you guys would enjoy seeing 1830-50's roach traps.I have four ,three were dug in Bklyn and the other in Manhatten.They are certinly great g0-withs for my Lyons powder collection! Kev
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    Got Opium?

    These might not be nice as that Sparks that just came on but I dug one in Chelsea and one in Brooklyn.Opium pipes are much harder to come by than ordinary smoking pipes.If I've put these on before or they bore you please pay them no attention but I thought they were pretty cool,Kev
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    Somthing sweet from a privy!

    Thought you folks might like to see this pontiled coffee bottle dug from a New York privyMy wife and I love coffee,the dogs do too!
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    Start the New Year Off Right!

    START THE NEW YEAR OFF RIGHT! Looking to buy insect powders such as Lyon's Powder,Costars,John F. Henry,Engels ,Kyles Persian Powder, Manx,D.Maurer & Son,Engels,Knowles 6 & 8" size,Meyers Destroyer,Wentz,Reynards, and any other odd insect powders in the familiar Lyons Powder shape.If you are...
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    Always wanted!

    Still looking for good Lyons powders especially the larger sizes and other insect powders of the same shape! Try me first,try me last,just try me! You won't be disappointed! If I don't have it I'm interested! Thank you,Kev
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    Not all prized possessions are bottles!

    Here's a couple of boys waiting for Santa! This is Dunkin. We wouldn't trade them for all the money in the world! Seasons Greeting! Pup
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    cobalt insect powder!

    I guess this has to be on of my favorite insect powders-cobalt John F. Henry/N.Y. To the best of my knowledge the only example of a John F. Henry in cobalt and one of only two embossed cobalt insect powders known.It lights up the whole collection! If anyone out there knows of any other cobalt...

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