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  1. J

    A couple more finds from Downeast Maine.

    Hi Alan, its a ginger pot, carried pickled or candied ginger they are still made today check an oriental market sometime. Would like to make some dives up that way some time, jbones
  2. J

    actually a diving partner

    Hey Zane, If you really think you have some sites to check. Email me in the spring and I will come out with a crew and see what you've found. We dive here in Jersey for bottles all the time. Lotsa current, no viz, and cold! great fun! If YOU want to dive for bottles. Go get CERTIFIED and start...
  3. J

    Looking for Well diggers advice.

    If the area was converted to city water early enough---and the well has been mostly filled in. You bet its worth digging! Did one behind a home some years ago where they had converted to city water just after the civil war and the trash at the bottom ( under 5 ft of water went all the way back...
  4. J

    set up a fourm Dig

    Can probably be there any time in July.....but the 4th sounds like a bad idea for traveling and such....just my 2 cents.
  5. J

    set up a fourm Dig

    Great idea! Set it up, I'm in. Hey Wayne if my dive boat is back in the water and time permits we could get a few tanks in, the jersey shore isn't far. Matt I will be going to the Jersey Shore Bottle Show on Sunday. will be there first thing in the am I will email you my cell # so we can meet...
  6. J

    calling all divers

    Hey Bram, anytime theres alot of runoff, check the areas you have done well in the past and look for washouts, found a nice local gill sized milk during a rainstorm the other day. It was sticking out of a fresh washout on a stream bank that has produced in the past but where active digging is...
  7. J

    Jersey Shore Bottle Show and Sale

    Usually about 50 tables, but I havent been to it in a few years. I use to sell at this show and also catered the food for a couple of years.
  8. J

    Jersey Shore Bottle Show and Sale

    Brick, NJ May 21st details-http://www.geocities.com/dtripet2000/index.html
  9. J

    my balls are two different sizes

    Hey Matt, if you didnt dig them near Gettysburg or Hanover then you may have a tuff time attaching them to a particular event. If you dug them in reasonably dry ground they look rough enough to possibly be pre civil war. You need to research the area that you found them in. With provinance...
  10. J

    my balls are two different sizes

    Nice balls Matt! er you know what I mean. If they are associated with a particular battle then yes they are worth a few $$$ you really need to do reverse electrolisis on them to preserve them or they may just flake away to nothing or split right in half. If they were in damp or wet ground then...
  11. J

    Public or private?

    Josh, Wayne is right! Take it from a well seasoned digger and diver. Nothing like the peace and quiet of the deep woods or the dark waters...but Wayne don't go tellin everybody, pretty soon it will be wall to wall divers out there!.(Just kiddin.) I'm new to the forum but not to digging and...
  12. J

    Inside Old Foundations

    So here's the story, and why you should never pass up a foundation or any other dig that is available to you. A grammar school friend and myself started digging bottles in our early teens. A year or two later after we had some idea of what we were doing we were told of two filled in foundations...
  13. J

    Inside Old Foundations

    New member here, have a great digging in old foundations story that I will write another time. Just wanted to say YES! dig it now, because you will live to regret not knowing what was in there and from my experience you really want to check inside a dirt foundation of that age with a metal...

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