Moved some dirt yesterday in my favorite dump ( been digging there for almost 30 years). Not a lot to show except this one pint flask. I haven't seen it before but it's probably common? Just thought it was neat as the word poison is embossed twice on it.
M. BERNSTEIN & SON WINES & LIQUORS...
You need to be on Facebook to see/read this, I believe.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=362626937198056&set=gm.10151496545686816&type=1&theater
Don't have a photo (info came in on the phone).
Tall amber Hock wine. Embossed with a picture of a Top.
RED TOP WESTHEIMER & SONS CINCINNATI OHIO & ST JOSEPH MO
Any idea on scarcity/value?
I am also trying to track down a fella (I think his name is Tom) who was a digger/Hock Wine...
Tom (Treasurehunt) and I were digging a hillside dump in a small town near Port Huron. The top 2-3 feet was teens to 30's stuff. Hit a powdery layer of fluff and TOC and older started popping. It was still going down at 6 feet, when we had to call it a day.
This is the blob- a Putnam closure...
I remember a couple of years ago when some of you guys were building tumblers and posted the instructions, you were telling us where you bought the pillow blocks, rollers, etc...
Some were purchased on ebay, so at an outlet, etc...
Would someone post those places again, please, I want to...
Nic and I dug a really crazy privy today I am going to call the "Pizz Pit."
We had to squeeze in to this space between a cement/cinder block wall and the other wall of the pit (there was actually a wood liner against the cinder block wall, too- go figure THAT out). The thing ends up wet at 3...
For those that knew him, this is very sad news. Tom passed away this morning.
Dana Charlton-Zarro will have more news, as she gets it from Stephanie.
Bill
Tops from Mansfield, Ohio (1945), Husky from Marysville, Wisconsin (1945) and a Black Bear from Cudahy, Wisconsin (1962).
Any of them harder to find- worth putting on ebay?
Thanks,
Bill
I'll post a second closeup of the neck & finish in the second post.
Two questions- 1) is this a sheared and polished finish and 2) any ideas on a recent value?
This is as dug and not tumbled.
Thanks,
Bill
I really hated putting my bitters on ebay and having the Sandman snatch it up and take it away to Ali Baba land, but I need the cash.
What's a guy to do, other than hope that someone in America buys it?
Bill
My buddy calls me from the Upper Peninsula about a bottle I have not run across. It is amber, 12-14", tapers up like a Hock Wine, applied ring finish, no makers mark, has an embossed Fox face/head above the mid-line and is embossed Red Fox (Something) Bros & Co Cincinnatti OH. He couldn't...
Plan early and make it to the Kalamazoo Show. A lot of out of state folks set up at this one. Big show and a lot of dealers.
This is John Pastor's home club.
Picture 1
A guy brought this in to the show today. No one could identify where it was from. It shows up on North American Beers & Sodas, with origin unknown.
Any ideas/speculation?
Thanks,
Bill
Our club came out with these totes this year. Each paid membership got one free and we will sell them at the show. Put some newspaper in each one and your shoppers have a perfect bottle carrying bag.
We got them at a very reasonable price-- 100, screened with what you see on one side, for...
This should be played at bottle shows and other venues. A really good job and kudos to Connor, his digging buddy, the homeowners and their Historical Society. I am very happy to see this type of thing...
Bill
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6zRUIk3pCE
You be the judge. The first picture is as dug, after a soap and water cleaning. The second picture is after three days of a light polish.
This bottle is the only known undamaged E-24 bitters.
Bill
This will be our 42nd annual show. The tables were sold out, the first week in January. In fact, the show chairman and I each gave up a table to get two more dealers in.
This is a really great show, folks, if you have never been.
It is west of Flint, in a safe area and there are some nice...