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  1. cordilleran

    Digging dumps with hard soil? SW USA

    Aceite= Vinegar in Spanish.
  2. cordilleran

    Purple glass - nuking- sun exposure?

    I was finding bottles on the surface in Nevada, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico in the sixties. The desert was filthy with them. Many were a deep purple (or yellow), but they were exposed to constant and intense Nevada ultraviolet radiation for sixty or more years. Having been an active collector...
  3. cordilleran

    Lots of Bottles for sale.

    I will gladly take the Sparks bottle. Thank you!
  4. cordilleran

    I'll give you thirty bucks for it.

    I'll give you thirty bucks for it.
  5. cordilleran

    Rare Polar Tobacco sign dug by me in PA!

    Should have dug that fifty years ago.
  6. cordilleran

    Tilley's Summum Bonum Bitters.

    This bottle, a "Tilley's Summum Bonum bitters" is currently in the last hours on auction with the American Bottle Auctions site https://www.rtam.com/americanbottle/cgi-bin/BIDS.CGI. American Bottle Auctions claims it is in almost perfect condition. My question is a Tilley's Summum Bonum bitters...
  7. cordilleran

    my first ever attempt at a fancy antique/midcentury furnished room...

    I decorate my home in early Great Depression.
  8. cordilleran

    Privy diggers in southeastern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico

    My grandfather worked in the Eureka mines during the early part of the twentieth century. My father was born in Eureka, and I worked in the Bergen and Trixie mines while in my teens (early 1970s). I am always looking for Eureka and regional collectibles (Payson, Spring Lake, Santaquin, Silver...
  9. cordilleran

    Not a collector. An occasional finder. And seller.

    I'm new at this and I have been collecting old bottles since the golden age of bottle collecting--1968.
  10. cordilleran

    I got a rock

    I'll go with granite. The specimen is characteristic of intrusive igneous rocks and one can identify on visual inspection the quartzite inclusions formed in concert with two distinct kinds of feldspar (plagioclase and potassium-rich potash feldspar). As for origin, I'd call your orbicular rock a...
  11. cordilleran

    Privy diggers in southeastern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico

    One of my alter egos was present for a fleeting time in Many Waters.
  12. cordilleran

    Cures For Sale

    cordilleran2001@gmail.com
  13. cordilleran

    What are these for? I'm finding alot?

    The phials held assorted sizes of sewing needles for the new-fangled sewing machines.
  14. cordilleran

    Privy diggers in southeastern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico

    I've been digging bottles and assorted ephemera since 1968. Looking to join up with like-minded people.
  15. cordilleran

    tuscon Az. ?

    I'm nearby. I'll be attending the Tucson Festival of Books on 15 March 2020 as a presenter. I have been digging bottle since 1968, founded a nonprofit with regard to privy digging, and have excavated hundreds of privies.
  16. cordilleran

    Found in the dumpster.

    I once found a baby's arm holding an apple in a dumpster next to the Olde Firesign Theater...
  17. cordilleran

    Please Help ID Grandma's collection

    So, what did the A. Stone iron pontilled wax sealer sell for at the fall of the gavel?
  18. cordilleran

    what kind of bottle and age ?

    1850s demijohn bottle. Likely American made given the sharpness of the open pontil scar.

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