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Got through working early yesterday. Well, I never get through but it was nice out, so I quit. Sue me! Hit the creek which was up a little. Had to take it easy so as not to get a wader full of cold water, but the regular rains recently had blown things out around logs and all. Spotted a few where it was shallow enough to see with the water being a little cloudy and all. Between the deep spots and the rippling, I doubt that I covered more than 30%, so I'm gonna get some chest waders and go back with the view bucket and scope out the deep areas. No embossing, but I'll take a pontil and an applied top seam-side any day. Beats nothing!

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at must have been one bored, bucktoothed beaver!

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Wow, to think it had been waiting there 140+ years!

And I've walked over them for over 40 years. It's amazing how many times I've walked that creek and it keeps on producing. Never a lot or anything earthshaking, but still fun. It rains, the creek swells, the sand and gravel shift, something may surface, walk it, repeat. Can't wait to hit it again!
 

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Those are the kind of slicks I would really like to find. Really like the pair. What is a view bucket? Good day ch
 
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Nice finds. We've used view tubes for work but I never thought about using one for searching streams for bottles - pretty good idea.
 

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Nice finds! I'd be happy with slicks if I was finding slicks like that, especially the one with the pontil. Those are really hard to find up here.

Those are the kind of slicks I would really like to find. Really like the pair. What is a view bucket? Good day ch
A view bucket is just a bucket with the bottom cut out and replaced with clear plastic. You stick it part way into the water and you can see through the ripples and reflections.
 

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Very cool!
There's a site in my area that had been a dump in the 1880s. Last year developers opened up the ground to lay a building foundation, and I was able to pull more than 30 bottles from the hole and the exposed use layer. The project stalled a few months later, and tho the building's up, there's still a lot of open ground to explore for smalls, inkwells, and marbles. So I go back every so often to check if the rains have revealed anything. A few days ago I went back and found a small, slick aqua bottle with a tooled lip, 1875-1885, under a debris pile. How it survived 140 years plus the dig and the weather, I can't imagine. But it always pays to look.
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Yes it always amazes me how a bottle can survive amid bulldozers and trucks driving all around construction/demolition sites.

It's like the bottles (and their history) were meant to live on!
 

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Congrats Sand. That is some early glass. Get some embossed ones next time and you're killing it!
 

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