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slimdigger

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I got out for a couple hours yesterday. Since I never get a chance to post my finds I thought I would take the time to show what a typical afternoon in my area produces. I dug for four hours and found 50 bottles or so. About half were BIM blanks. All of the bottle in this dump are blown. These are the ones I brought home :
Bottom Row : cobalt medicine unembossed, Phillip's Milk Of Magnesia, E A Bain Petersburg, Va. , clear and aqua Rosenegk beer bottles from Richmond, Va. , GBS beer from Baltimore, Blob Top Robert Portner beer from Alexandria, Va., crude double sloped collar whiskey, crown top amber beer with blank slug embossed V.G. Co. on rear heel.

Top row : Home Brewing Richmond Va. Loop style blob, aqua ink, clear school house paint bottle, Diamond Ink Co. cone ink, Charles Shaw Molasses & Syrup, Baltimore Md., eight sided food bottle embossed Olympia Pint , Dr. Kilmer's Swamp Root Sample , 3 Bromoseltzers, One cobalt Chelf's Celery Caffein Richmond, Va. small unembossed cobalt medicine, California Fig Syrup San Francisco, Cal. , aqua ringed collar pickle, Large cobalt cylinder medicine, and a blob Home Brewing beer bottle with long neck.

Not pictured : pipe bowl, barrel spigot, marbles, fruit jar lids, goodyear lice comb, doll legs, porcelain door knobs , and a ton of ash in the bottom of my boots!

Slimdigging in Va!

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Very nice finds Bruce. Love the old blobs and beers. Celery Caffein[&:] whats that all about. Bet that was some good stuff.[:'(]
 

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I have dug my share of Hick's Capudine bottles as well. I think we have probally dug 10 to 15 different variants of the amber Capudine. Slim
 

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yo slimdigger, very nice stuff man!!! im jealous!! you guys are blowing my mind nice !!! mike

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Cool bottles Mike. Capudines are always fun to collect because there so many different kinds.

Yea Bruce, I've seen alot of variants. I had a bud that had alot of Hicks variants too, but there were twentyseven and some were aqua so keep lookin.
 

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Hey Slimdigger...

Nice looking bottle display (I noticed there was no snow in the background)
You're doing so well digging for the bottles you don't have to dive for them. That's great... I like to stay dry sometimes too and I want to learn how to dig because my two boys are getting into it. They are 16 and 13 years old. My oldest just got certified to dive and my youngest is pretty close , but they love diggin holes and looking for bottles.

Keep diggin and findin,

Wayne
 

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Wayne, We have a good supply of 1880's -1930's dumps to dig. The problem is I only collect bottles pre 1865. Most of the privies in my area have been dug. Diving seems to be the only way to find any quantity of early glass. With all the civil war activity and an abundance of wharf and dock sites I should have a better chance of finding the glass I am after in the water. Slimdigger

Bring your boys down sometime and we can definitely turn them on to some good ole bottle diggin! We are always short of strong backs!
 

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Hello to all -
I'm adding a group photo that was taken a while ago, but seems to fit in here. These were some that I dug from the same dump, hence the alike bottles and products. They were not all dug on the same day. I just picked a few that were nearby when I was taking photos for some of my eBay sales.

The back row: An ice blue, earlier crown top, ROBERT PORTNER / BREWING CO. / ALEXANDRIA, VA., then a clear ROSENEGK / BREWING COMPANY from RICHMOND, VA., followed by an ice blue, blob HOME BREWING CO. / RICHMOND, VA. with severely left leaning neck (not from a fire), next is a ice blue HOME BREWING in arc over RICHMOND, VA. in reverse arc, inside a slug plate. Oddly enough there is an olive colored, inclusion that looks like a seed sprouting, between the embossing. This should stand out better after I tumble it in the spring. Next is an aqua HIRSCH'S / WORCESTER (notice - no 'shire') SAUCE --- PITTSBURG (no 'H'), Pa. & LOUISVILLE, KY. --- HIRSCH BROTHERS & Co. complete with embossed lid. This bottle didn't turn up in Zumwalt's book, but the company is mentioned.

The front row has some typical common finds and the first three small ones usually end up in your lap while knocking down the dirt in front of you: SOZODONT / FOR THE TEETH AND BREATH showing a couple of variants. Next is an aqua KOPP'S BABY'S FRIEND / KOPP & LIGHTENBERGER / ASHEVILLE, N.C. Not the typical Kopp's usually embossed with PA or down the center only. I recently sold this one. Next is the 4" blue Wm R. WARNER & CO. / PHILDa followed by your everyday CARTER'S inkwell.

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