My day at the mud flats with coldwater diver

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riverdiver

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Had my first experience digging for bottles in a tidal mudflat with coldwater diver last week. Only found one intact bottle and it is a tiny 1-1/4" flask, looks like a perfume or sample bottle with a checkered pattern in the glass. Also recovered a marble, Victorian Brooch and two early necks, one from an onion bottle and the other I thought from a chestnut but on closer inspection of the swirls in the glass maybe it was a Midwestern.
 

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That outing must have been fun. That little diamond-pattern bottle would look good with my tiny collection of such bottles. Sell? Trade?
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Hard to say from the transition to the shoulder facing front, but the piece on the left looks like possibly a shaft and globe. What an amazing spot with the age, variety and rarity of the stuff to come out of there!
 

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Thanks sandchip, the variety of finds is amazing, every time the tide goes out fresh stuff is to be eyeballed or dug. I wanted to dive it during high tide until I found out this is one of the City of Portsmouth's sewage overflow spots during high rains, might make for some stinky digging and I am no friend of the finless brown trout...
 

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