Great news about the dump, could be some good late throws at the bottom!
Here's a dug com plate from 1915, a bit rough but still a keeper, it was down deep probably 8'. Great plate resource link by the way, thanks!
Great find! You're holding onto one of a few that I know of, I have one in a 3oz and another in a 2oz size. The embossing is Frank H. Reed, who opened a drug store in 1901 on Cedar St. I believe these BIMAL versions just missed being made by the ABM, and I have not heard of an ABM example. Over...
I had a great time, a shout of thanks to everyone who brought amazing glass and stories to share, time sure flies talking bottles!
Thanks Bram for hosting this get together at that wonderful hall, can't wait for the next one! ^^
Got out on Saturday to a perfect day of digging an old farmhouse that has small dumps around the property. Older shards seemed to be coming from a muddy area around an old stone lined well and this huge rock so we focused on that:
We found a few decent keepers, mostly 20's and 30's...
This is great you guys, I am really enjoying the posts, I knew this link would draw tons of feedback, all I gotta say is look at the energy here, anything can be accomplished, it's up to us...
I dug another variant of the JB Williams bottle up here in NH, I thought it was a druggist but the shape suggested a cleaning or soap product, turns out they were a major barber supplier and covered quite an area. Our variants likely contained shaving soap or lotion...
Here's some help, dug this in NH. I believe it was a whiskey/liquor operation, but this one is earlier, and huge. Your "not to be sold" was to discourage reuse of the bottle, probably pre prohibition era.
Freakin sweeet finds.... don't you just love that feeling!
I have several Tebbett WT&CO druggists, they were out of Manchester NH. Don't know if it's just a name coincidence but there were Tebbetts brothers in Manchester I believe selling meds on Elm St ~1890+, I should do some more hunting...
A very "h"are find indeed [8D]
I'd say it's turn of the century pottery, not what I was expecting though, I'd bet it had some kind of carrier it fit into or something. I hope the #@# it isn't someone's ash urn [:'(][:o][:@]
If it makes weird noises in the night: WTS haunted urn!
Finally got a chance to hit a city dump spot I knew about for some time, all this pulled from only ~3ft of dump layer, not bad for a few hours of scraping! I'm hoping to find a deeper spot but there is so much poison ivy i'd have to go in a hazard suit.
How about that, it has to be the...
I've had three encounters with local police while digging, once at night, and each time was the same: It was never an issue for them after I explained my passion for the hobby. Obviously cooperate, explain clearly who you are and what you are doing, show ID and registration. The officer who...
Good comments made by all, I'm glad this is a top issue with the community here, it affects everyone regardless of where you're from and if you dig or not.
My issue with the sudden attention to this is that diggers are labeled as some sort of new "treasure hunter" that wrecks havoc on the...
I just came across this and I am floored: [:'(]
http://www.wmur.com/news/10582085/detail.html
Calling all New Hampshire diggers: What do we do? This has been a longtime fear of mine that the state will eventually seriously restrict our hobby and make it nearly impossible to keep artifacts...
RE: #12 Few I cleaned up from NH & NY Digs
Nice finds! I can tell by your pics that some of those are NH digs :) Those J Howard creamers are super common in my "old faithful" 1870+ dump, I just don't get why every milk bottle I manage to dig there is busted [:@] Let me know if you want to...
RE: Hey Pete???
*JACKPOT* finds there! I sometimes dig all day and don't pull out that much! I'm in nasty deep town dumps though and it all depends if you hit a nice vein you can do really good, other times not so good.
I've got boxes and boxes of the plain BIMAL ones... I hear ya about...