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    well digging????

    I have been digging for bottles for almost 2 years now and i love it. It is an aggravating sport. I have dug 2 old wells, and have had the best luck in wells. It seems like you start hitting the turn of the century stuff about 6 feet down. The deeper you go the bottles get older. It seems to me...
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    DR. C. HARTUNG'S........anybody hear of it?

    The bottle is about 6" tall, an 1" in diameter. Its aqua with a tooled lip. It has embossed on its side dr. c. hartung's 3 king stomach drops chicago. The bottom says wt&co. Any help please.
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    no diggers in the chicago area?????????????

    It seems like every month i find a turn of the century pit, seriously. I cant find anyone in illinois that likes digging for bottles. I try to dig by myself ofcourse whenever i have spare time but its boring by myself, i feel like a loser in the woods by myself. Anyone out there that might want...
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    Got a weird bottle today.........need help???????

    I worked on my Aunts car today and she gave me some bottles. This tall one is about a foot tall, is aqua or light green, has air bubbles, has a nasty pontil on the base. The bottle also has wavy side seems that go through the lip and under the lip there are two more seems that go around the...
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    Duraglass

    Does anyone know when the duraglass company came out. I find these bottles laying in the woods all the time. I found 7up's from the 30's and 40's, another weird looking soda with a patent date of mar 3, 1925, also found an old aqua beer seems stop below the lip. If anyone has info on the company...
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    Gombaults..........any input

    This bottle i have has most of the lable still intact, original cork and is about half full of medicine. The bottle looks 1890's -1910's. Its aqua. The lip looks alittle crude, but it could be tooled. I dug one of these without the lable ofcourse and found someone selling an old collection of...
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    Piso's Cure?????

    Here is another i found. The lip looks crude and hand applied. Its aqua and im not to shure if its a pontil mark but the bottom has a circle that pushes up. one side of the bottle has embossed: Piso's Cure, the other has embossed: Hazeltine & Co, and the front has embossed: For Consumption. If...
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    Dr Kennedy's Medical Discovery

    Any ever seen these bottles before, the things huge, about one pint. Its aqua and has a crude applied lip. Im not to shure if it has a pontil mark, its got a circle about 1" in diameter on the bottom and it pushes up. The bottles has embossed: Dr Kennedy's on one side. The other side has...
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    Anyone interested in post prohibition bottles?

    I find post prohibition bottles(1932-1964) by the hundreds. I like collecting them but am starting to see many doubles. Most of the bottles are fancy. They all have embossed: FEDERAL LAW FORBIDS RE USE OR RE SALE OF THIS BOTTLE. Some have embossed pictures, some have embossed brand names, some...
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    Help needed in Illinois

    I recently discovered a large dump in the woods. the closest town is an old lime stone mining town that dates back to the early 1800's. The dump is off of an old road that has been blocked for years. at the end of the road there are several old foundations. close to the foundations are a well...
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    mccormick & co.

    I am interested in any mccormick & co bottles. I am more interested in bottles that say mfg chemists, or bottles with a picture of a bee embossed on them. If anyone one has any laying around or may have extra's they want to sell or posibbly trade I would appreciate...
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    Illinois diggin

    Found an old dump in the woods, it was in the 40's here near chicago so i went lookin for new dumps, dug this old corker whiskey, looks 1910's or so, anybody know the era or brand, its says full pint on the front and a 4 on the bottom...........thanks jake.
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    Mccormick & co

    Anybody collect Mccormick and co bottles, anyone know years or values? I have four different kinds, all clear and about 5" tall. They are all cork top bottles. I can provide pictures if anyone is interested.
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    Frosty look

    Is there anyway to get the frosty look off of the outside of the bottle. Ive got several bottles that have rough frosty spots on the outside. I do not have a tumbler. is there anyway to polish it? or is there any cleaning agents out there that work? Is the only way to tumble the bottle? I found...
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    cod bottle?

    Once again sorry for posting these questions without a picture, I do not live with my parents and thats were this computor is that i am on all the time. So of course i do not know how to use there digital camera yet. hopefully i will learn when my dad comes back from the store. Anyway i got a...
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    Poison Bottle With Label?????????????

    Would this bottle be worth anything with the label intact, What is it, Whats the era???????????????????? any info, please.................thanks Jake.
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    H. Hall.............What is it?

    I got a bottle that is about 9" tall and is about 2"-2.5" in dia up into the shoulder then has about a 1" neck and then a crude tappered applied lip. The seams stop under the lip. Lots of air bubbles. The bottom is slightly rounded and has a big circle and in the circle are three big letters...
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    I & M Canal digging

    I live in the chicagoland area and live close to the I & M canal, for those of you who do not know what that is it is a canal they built in the early 1800's. It is still there, allthough very shallow in areas and filled with garbage. Most of the canal runs through wooded areas and all along the...
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    poison bottles, were should i start?

    I am new to collecting bottles, I am interested in collecting poison bottles. I see alot of them on ebay but they all look the same. What should i look for? What makes some rare? Where should i start digging?
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    little boy blue bluing

    I was digging and found some little boy blue bluing bottles, i also found some hemingray insulators and some A.S. Hinds bottles. What era is this dump? What year is that bluing bottle?

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