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    First intact bottle today!

    That's a particularly cool looking bottle, the combination of octagonal sides with the curved "superior lager beer" shield area makes it much more visually interesting than most beer bottles. I assume it's a blob-top instead of a crown closure? Anyway that's a lovely "first" bottle to find...
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    New (Old) Awesome Display Cabinet

    Wow that's awesome! Believe it or not I thought they looked like silver, but the form and size of that (tin) beast in the back had me uncertain so I didn't want to compliment your silver treasure and have you self-consciously say they weren't quite that precious. Very impressive to read that...
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    New site on 1873 map but found 1900-1930 bottles

    My impression is that it was an isolated load of trash, I don't really see ashes so maybe it was a cleanout near the end of the period the house was inhabited. From the sounds of it the primary dump is probably somewhere else. They may have been more fastidious than normal and buried their...
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    New (Old) Awesome Display Cabinet

    Great display! I enjoy the mix of antique metal artifacts and bottles, having the silverplate in the middle definitely helps draw one's eye in and provides lovely contrast to the glass. I'm wondering what the grey things in the bottom are, lead ingots or keel weights?
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    Killer 1870's Beer Bottle.

    Are you saying that the broken A. Biewers you dug in the pit was a different mold variety than this most recent acquisition? Anyway it's good that you managed to obtain an intact one shortly afterwards, if it were me then knowing the bottom was in that hole would gnaw at and distract me...
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    A frosty yet rewarding dig in the "Roaring 20s" dump with a rare late-throw!

    Yeah that's a killer, kinda looks familiar too maybe you posted it years ago? I've always understood that bottle style/pattern to be for citrate of magnesia as well, I think they're on the younger end 1910s or even earlier 20s so perhaps you just can't find those in your older privy pits? I hope...
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    A frosty yet rewarding dig in the "Roaring 20s" dump with a rare late-throw!

    In the thousands upon thousands of bottles you've dug you haven't found any Detroit citrates? Did the druggists of Detroit not have many made? For whatever reason I've had good luck with nursers, there were several different wholesale medicine and supply companies in Peoria which sold their own...
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    A frosty yet rewarding dig in the "Roaring 20s" dump with a rare late-throw!

    It was a tough job, the frost was probably around a foot thick but I have an all-steel Estwing mattock/pick which is a superior tool for rockhounding as well as cutting through the frozen dirt. once you have a hole opened up to below the frost it's not as hard to score and then pry/break off...
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    A NEW APPRECIATION

    Wow! I've never seen a cylinder whiskey in such a lovely shade of green, it might even make a fine emerald feel inadequate! Very nice rediscovery, thanks for sharing!
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    River finds. Low water level fun. First river hutch find!!!

    Great finds, I've never dug a glass wax-sealer canning jar, big fragile bottles don't usually survive in creeks/rivers so I bet that was a surprising piece to come across!
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    A White Rose, Elephant,Bear, couple of Pig's and more.

    Wow that's some dedication, you clearly earned those bottles! With luck a nice gullywasher thunderstorm will blast through the area next spring and wash away a bunch of that muck for you. There were a few creek dumps I dug where I'd pile up logs and big rocks to concentrate and channel storm...
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    A frosty yet rewarding dig in the "Roaring 20s" dump with a rare late-throw!

    Once I was digging a creek dump during a 100 degree and basically 100% humidity summer day and probably got heatstroke. Got tunnel vision where everything but the very center of my field of vision went dark and I felt very dizzy and faint. Had to struggle my way back to the truck which was...
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    A White Rose, Elephant,Bear, couple of Pig's and more.

    That pictorial Hutchinson with the bear is great, definitely worth more than a typical Chicago hutch and your pair of pigs is very nice too. Did you find everything in your pictures in just 1 dig?
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    A frosty yet rewarding dig in the "Roaring 20s" dump with a rare late-throw!

    Thanks and good to see you too man, are you still mining out treasures buried in the Galveston area? Any particularly memorable digs in the last 7 or 8 years that I missed? Please drop pics or link me to your threads. Here's an admittedly poor picture of the 5 Peoria citrates, all dug by me and...
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    A frosty yet rewarding dig in the "Roaring 20s" dump with a rare late-throw!

    Hey 'ole friends, I kinda dropped off the map after moving to a new state with far poorer prospects for digging, but when I'm back visiting family and friends I make sure to visit the beloved old dumps too. Last winter a friend and I thought it would be good fun to sink a pit in the trusty...
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    Killer 1870's Beer Bottle.

    Hey, good to see you still out digging and collecting. In my experience, when you finally capitulate and buy something you've been trying to dig for years the Bottle Gods think it's funny to bless your dig with the same bottle soon thereafter. Hopefully the example that is now waiting for you...
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    Newbie - Sodas and Medicine (PIcs added)

    That straight-sided coke with the original paper label is definitely a winner, you would need to post more pictures of the bottle to get a better assessment but I'd bet it's worth multiples more than a typical dug SS coke without a label. For example I sold a common hutchinson soda which would...
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    Unguent, C. 100 B.C. to 70 A.D.

    Great bottle! Something you need to be careful of are the later Byzantine and Islamic-era near-eastern bottles/vials. They are certainly old, and it's hard to tell the difference between 1,000 and 2,000 years worth of patina/chemical erosion, but it stands to reason that the majority of...
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    Magnus, Nevada

    I'd go exploring, with a good strong walking stick to poke at possible loose rock in the ceiling of the tunnel. Granted, I've always liked going inside tunnels and caves so I am biased in favor of taking the risk. I like using the elastic band head-mounted lights, and would carry multiple plus...
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    Danger Keep out vs No tresspassing

    The most valuable bottle I ever found was in a fenced off construction/excavation area. Didn't say "No Trespassing" so I snuck in at night several times, found good stuff.

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