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Basil.W.Duke

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a pontiled cobalt blue C B Owen Cincinnati and a pitsburg double eagle flask
 

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In terms of number dug, maybe not much. But in terms of quality, what a dig. We never find historical flasks over here. And certainly never embossed pontils intact!
 

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WOW, Those are nice, wish i could dig that kind of stuff. what kind of pit was this? A Privy? LEON.
 

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pit was a shallow privy 7 foot deep

there was a another pontil that tony got that was common common and another cobalt pontiled soda a Bick. The hole is only 2/3 finished and i will get back in shortly
 

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Nice finds Basil!. Things are still frozen solid here in the North East, please show the cleaned up versions. Kevin
 

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the flask is as clean as i want it just love the iridescent color pattern. Here are two pics of the soda with the iron pontil
 

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Wow-that's beautiful stuff! Good luck with the rest of the hole.
 

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