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Every year our local river blows back out to the Saginaw Bay when we get a good strong wind from the South. Usually the water blows out a few times in the fall and with the low water level already, it gives us the chance to dig around in the mud flats down town. There is at least 2 miles of wide open shoreline to explore. Today my son found two pre-1900 bottles. We also found several artifacts from the logging days and other interesting artifacts. We only had about three hours before it got too dark to see. Next time we will park a mile down river and explore a different area to the North and there is more shoreline closer to the bay to check out, just not enough time in the day.
 

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Here is a photo of my son with his two bottles. We collect stoneware bottles from Bay City Michigan. He found one that we didn't have on the shelf. It was a 12 sided Beebe & Braddock. The stamp is not very good and the salt glaze is very heavy over it.

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Here are the two bottles cleaned up. The glass bottle is a Hires, it was found on the edge of the river in front of a 1800's dump. The dump is now a park that extends into the river. The low water level area is all glass and broken bottles and pottery. All blob tops here, might be good to dig into sometime.

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Not sure why the photos posted are so large. I tried to make 3x3 inch and 150kb and they are huge. Anyway you get the idea.
 

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Here is my son with the bottles.

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