hemihampton
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Me & Tom got out to dig some more Privies today. Probed out some crunchy spots but they were small & shallow, so we just did some test holes. first holes looked like a dud with some 1930's screw tops, ketchup bottles & other worthless condiments. SO, Tom gives up on the hole & goes off to probe some better stuff. me being persistant I keep digging this dud. I did end up digging 2 cool embossed druggist bottles & Lash's Bitters which surprised Tom. Meanwhile Tom is digging a new spot next to me. He pulls out 2 Mrs Winslows. Meanwhile I started digging a new hole on other side of him. do a test hole & hit some stuff. But it kind of peters out being pretty much a dud. Tom fills his hole in & I'm about to fill mine in when I probe the walls one last time. In one back corner I feel some stuff. I start digging in back corner & hit a bottle, ends up being a blown tooled crown top Hires from possibly late 1890's. It's a tall skinny bottle. Then I hit another tall skinny bottle but a blob top. I figure just another Hires but the early to mid 1890's blob version. NO, This one is the tall skinny Mitchells Hutch from Detroit. Cool. Then I hit another Hutch. A killer Mt. Clemens hutch. By now I'm going under the Fence of Neighbors yard & got a huge overhang of dirt & can't reach back any farther & I think I'm just starting to hit
the good stuff. But had to give up. Luckily the neighbor gave us permission to dig his back yard a few weeks ago so might have to re hit this one from other side of the fence. LEON.