Robby Raccoon
Trash Digger
I overloaded my pack with my finds--I'll start from the beginning.
I was bored, haven't found much this past month that was anything really special. So I left for bottle-hunt-area-scouting, as I call it, and took my bike down a dirt road. Searching through the woods, I was turning up little--a broken '60s huge Coca-Cola for the bottle garden due to shape and size, two clear and very large Coca-Cola bottles (they say Coke on the other side) and one still had it's lid. Then an embossed wine bottle full of grapes and vines (the embossing is that, it had shell in it. Not grapes.) Then, I moved on down further with my bike thinking the area wasn't really worth it and I suddenly found a a dried creek and thought, Bottles might get washed down it. So I followed it, had to leave it to get around many fallen branches damming it, and spotted a 1960s beer I often find. Looking around, I spotted shards and went out of the rut carved from flows of water and spotted bunches of jars and bottles. Excited, I searched around and found it was a '50s-'70s household dump. I then spotted a bottle that I am always happy to find. It's the newer version--I have two of the older ones. And this is a variation I haven't seen based on the bottom. "MUSKEGON,MICH / REGISTERED // DRINK / PAUL'S / DRINKS // PROPERTY OF" Next side "CONTENTS 6 1/2 OZ / PAUL G. MILLER // EVERY / SWALLOW / PURE / COCA COLA BOTTLING CO" The base you'll see has a C in a circle in a C and numbers. I am pretty sure this company went out in the '50s. They started in 1917 and were, of course, Coca-Cola owned. Big day, really, for Coca-Cola.
Excited further, I then looked around--more like was running around-- going through thickets and trees and what turned out to be thorny vines as I looked for bottles. Most were broken, and nothing special. My shoe got torn by a piece of glass, my arms by the thorns but it was worth it. There also are numerous cans that still have the painted labels on them, and machine parts, and what looked like an Edison bulb--left it, as the base was broken away. Soon I found pieces of Coca-Cola bottles, and found a mound I'll tomorrow morning dig into where I pulled an intact bottle out. It says "Coca-Cola / TRADE MARK REGISTERED / IN U.S. PATENT OFFICE" on one side, and is identical on the other except the last line which says, "MIN. CONTENTS 6 FL OZS." Most exciting is the base, as I'm in Michigan and it says, "SULPHUR SPRINGS / L-G / TEX." on it.
I then also pulled out a very large Coca-Cola bottle, also in aqua like the aforementioned one, that is identical but as a 12 OZ and has a 16 above the I in an oval for Owen-Illinois, with a 3 to the left and what looks like a modified 55 to say 56 then a number 2. below the maker's mark.
I also brought back an ACL Sunrise, which is hardly legible as most of the ACL is faded away. It looks to be 1960s. I also found an odd ACL jar that says it's "Roquefort Dressing" and is pretty strange. It will be going to the shed like most of the bottles--I have a 'museum' in there of less-than-perfect bottles.
Happily I found a Duraglass half-pint milk bottle, red ACL and embossing, for "Farr View Dairy Products" of "Muskegon, Mich." A nice local piece. An 8 is under the Duraglass name, and then a 9 below and left, then a 53 to the right of the 9. Embossing reads, "SEALED <(I)> SS" "HALF PINT" "LIQUID 29" and "ML 943 REG." around the base.
Last but not least, a cute little "ESQUIRE / SCUFF-KOTE" bottle.
Now time to make several posts' worth of photos.
I was bored, haven't found much this past month that was anything really special. So I left for bottle-hunt-area-scouting, as I call it, and took my bike down a dirt road. Searching through the woods, I was turning up little--a broken '60s huge Coca-Cola for the bottle garden due to shape and size, two clear and very large Coca-Cola bottles (they say Coke on the other side) and one still had it's lid. Then an embossed wine bottle full of grapes and vines (the embossing is that, it had shell in it. Not grapes.) Then, I moved on down further with my bike thinking the area wasn't really worth it and I suddenly found a a dried creek and thought, Bottles might get washed down it. So I followed it, had to leave it to get around many fallen branches damming it, and spotted a 1960s beer I often find. Looking around, I spotted shards and went out of the rut carved from flows of water and spotted bunches of jars and bottles. Excited, I searched around and found it was a '50s-'70s household dump. I then spotted a bottle that I am always happy to find. It's the newer version--I have two of the older ones. And this is a variation I haven't seen based on the bottom. "MUSKEGON,MICH / REGISTERED // DRINK / PAUL'S / DRINKS // PROPERTY OF" Next side "CONTENTS 6 1/2 OZ / PAUL G. MILLER // EVERY / SWALLOW / PURE / COCA COLA BOTTLING CO" The base you'll see has a C in a circle in a C and numbers. I am pretty sure this company went out in the '50s. They started in 1917 and were, of course, Coca-Cola owned. Big day, really, for Coca-Cola.
Excited further, I then looked around--more like was running around-- going through thickets and trees and what turned out to be thorny vines as I looked for bottles. Most were broken, and nothing special. My shoe got torn by a piece of glass, my arms by the thorns but it was worth it. There also are numerous cans that still have the painted labels on them, and machine parts, and what looked like an Edison bulb--left it, as the base was broken away. Soon I found pieces of Coca-Cola bottles, and found a mound I'll tomorrow morning dig into where I pulled an intact bottle out. It says "Coca-Cola / TRADE MARK REGISTERED / IN U.S. PATENT OFFICE" on one side, and is identical on the other except the last line which says, "MIN. CONTENTS 6 FL OZS." Most exciting is the base, as I'm in Michigan and it says, "SULPHUR SPRINGS / L-G / TEX." on it.
I then also pulled out a very large Coca-Cola bottle, also in aqua like the aforementioned one, that is identical but as a 12 OZ and has a 16 above the I in an oval for Owen-Illinois, with a 3 to the left and what looks like a modified 55 to say 56 then a number 2. below the maker's mark.
I also brought back an ACL Sunrise, which is hardly legible as most of the ACL is faded away. It looks to be 1960s. I also found an odd ACL jar that says it's "Roquefort Dressing" and is pretty strange. It will be going to the shed like most of the bottles--I have a 'museum' in there of less-than-perfect bottles.
Happily I found a Duraglass half-pint milk bottle, red ACL and embossing, for "Farr View Dairy Products" of "Muskegon, Mich." A nice local piece. An 8 is under the Duraglass name, and then a 9 below and left, then a 53 to the right of the 9. Embossing reads, "SEALED <(I)> SS" "HALF PINT" "LIQUID 29" and "ML 943 REG." around the base.
Last but not least, a cute little "ESQUIRE / SCUFF-KOTE" bottle.
Now time to make several posts' worth of photos.
