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    MORE BOTTLES ADDED TO AUCTION

    Hey, check out the two bottles that were added to the auction. Just scroll down to my original auction and see what has been added. Stinger
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    Super crude J. Tweddlel r soda

    I tried to ban my wife from buying anymore bottles from ebay. Well, yeah that worked really well. She won this old soda just recently. The embossing is unusal, bottle is one of the crudest that we own. Embossing goes as follows J. TWEDDLEL (L is backwards) r S (all in an arch)/ CELEBRATED/...
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    repair crack in an extremmely rare bottle

    I just plucked one the most rare Hawaiian bottles this afternoon from my cliffside dump. I cleaned it up and its about mint, but has a crack part way across its shoulder. Normally, I just toss any bottles away with cracks, but this is one rare bottle. Any suggestions on sealing the crack? Its...
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    RICE & McKINNEY'S MEAD Stoneware

    Here is a stoneware that is embossed RICE & MCcKINNEY'S MEAD. It is about 9.5 inches tall and weighs a lot. Its almost in mint condition with the exception of some extremmely small nibbling on the top of the lip. The dent (see the picture) was in the original making. It has the original...
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    Need info for a N.Y. pontiled soda

    I dug this bottle a long time ago in the Boston area. I just cleaned it. Don't know anything about it. If anyone knows about this squat soda, please post a reply. An aqua taper top, iron pontiled. Front embossed John Cable 1848 Rear enbossed J C. Thanks, Stinger P.S. Was told that it...
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    Labeled Tiger Pots

    I am sure that a lot of diggers on this forum have dug these pots. Here is one with just about all of its labels fully intact. In Hawaii, we call them Tiger Pots because they contained Chinese Tiger whiskey. The label on this one says 96%. Stinger
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    How about Hutches

    We've shown our pontiled sodas and minerals. HOW ABOUT SHARING HUTCHES? I'll start out with one of my favorites. This is a somewhat rare Full funnel top Excelsior Soda Works bottle. Excelsior Soda Works started towards the late 1880's and continued until the 1960's. You could make a large...
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    Rare Wisconsin cobalt soda

    I just checked the auction for that rare cobalt Wisconsin soda. It went for a song in my opinion. Somebody got a great deal. Stinger
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    show us your food bottles

    How about everyone that collects food related bottles post your favorite/s ones. This is a broad spectrum of different types of bottles, so don't be shy, just post them. I'll start out with a favorite iron pontiled sauce of mine. Stinger THE PICTURE OF THE BOTTLE IS IN THE NEXT POST
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    WANTED Samuel Simes med with bulbous neck bugle

    I dug one of these about a zillion years ago. I literally spend well over 20 hours working on this bottle before it went into the tumbler. It came out really mint. I was very happy mainly because I meant to work on this one for over 20 years and finally in retirement got the time. Well, two...
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    Stuck copper on the inside of your bottle

    I know that we all have experienced having pieces of stuck copper on the inside, especially at the bottoms of the bottle after you have tumbled the bottle. I was wondering if other members who tumble would like to share what methods they use to remove these pieces from their bottles. I am a...
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    Just cutting a bottle

    Hi Brian, I don't have any before pictures of this Ogden. Only after shots. It came out of a privy in Pittsburgh and had a lot of fine scratches covering the entire bottle, plus one deep scratch on the neck. As you can see the deep scratch is small, it didn't have any other damage stemming...
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    Sometimes everything just works out

    I love to collect the large Pittburgh porters. This one came out of privy in Pittsburgh and was really in bad shape as far as condition. I couldn't even tell if it had any cracks or if the embossing was intact. Well, sometimes the bottle Gods shine a light on what your working on and it just...
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    Before & after shots

    This pontiled taper top Farland was dug in a privy back in the northeast (can't remember where). I have had quite a few of these over the years, but oddly enough this one is missing the small a in Pa. Here is the before it was worked on picture and then in the next post is the bottle after I...
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    Warren your PM

    Warren, How do I get to my PMs? Stinger Haut
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    Cabin Whiskey

    Well, most of last week the surf was crap (too stormy) and I had to get a root canal, so I played around taking pictures of this cabin whiskey from Chicago. I can't remember the name of it and its packed away in the closet, I am too lazy to go and dig it out to give you the name of it. Please...
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    Show off your squat sodas & minerals

    Post a picture of your favorite squat soda or mineral bottle. Here is one of our favorite squat sodas. An early pontiled aqua E. Lester from St. Louis. Stinger
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    Camalielson Dairy & Poultry Milk, Hilo Hawaii

    I couldn't wait to clean this rare milk from Hilo, Hawaii before posting pictures of it. I'll post pictures of after I've worked on it as well. There is a reef that I surf and as you walk down the side of the cliff there is an old dump. It rains a lot here so when I am walking back up from...
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    ATTN ANY MODERATER-PLEASE REPLY

    Hi, I have posted a few times about someone in the admin to please email me because everytime I try and send an email it gets kicked back to me. However, I haven't received any responses to my posts. I bought a bottle from a fellow member and found out that it was coated in plastic. It was...
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    ATTN ROGER -EMAIL PROBLEMS

    Hi Roger, Warren advised me to contact you about my problem with sending the admin emails. Everytime that I try and send one through the Admin forum, it kicks back the email as undeliverable. Please, contact me at bowlofcereal223@yahoo.com. Thank you, Pono (stinger) & Frances

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