PlaneDiggerCam
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Yesterday I had taken a trip to a friend of my dad's property to do some detecting. The property was part of of a farm dating to the 1700s and my dad's friend owned a 1860s farm house. After a while I grew tired of the metal detecting and decided to explore to see if I could find a dump. I followed a rock wall from the house and then I started to see a large piece of rusty metal in the corner of the rock wall. I got closer I started to see the bottles all sticking right out of the ground. At first it looked like all 1920s screw caps and blanks but when I kicked the leaves I got really excited. I looked down to see an art deco Black Rock Beverages and Julep just sticking out of the dirt. I kicked around more leaves and was very happy to find more early sodas that were just waiting to be pulled out. I also managed to find a cobalt poison on the surface! Since I was not expecting to dig I did not have anything with me and I had to use an old bucket to carry finds back with me. I will return to this spot to hopefully pull out some more goodies.
Here are the finds:
5 Nutmeg soda bottles (New London, Conn.)
2 Rock Water Soda Co. Taftville, CT (A.L.B. in center of slugplate) and 2 King's Bottling Works Westerly, R.I.
Black Rock Bottling Co. w/ fancy neck Westerly, R.I., Drink Black Rock Beverages art deco soda Westerly, R.I., Julep soda bottle.
Cobalt 2 oz poison, Whiting Milk Companies Boston, Whittemore Boston shoe polish, and Man E Ta Cocoa Boston.
Thanks for reading,
PlaneDiggerCam
Here are the finds:
5 Nutmeg soda bottles (New London, Conn.)
2 Rock Water Soda Co. Taftville, CT (A.L.B. in center of slugplate) and 2 King's Bottling Works Westerly, R.I.
Black Rock Bottling Co. w/ fancy neck Westerly, R.I., Drink Black Rock Beverages art deco soda Westerly, R.I., Julep soda bottle.
Cobalt 2 oz poison, Whiting Milk Companies Boston, Whittemore Boston shoe polish, and Man E Ta Cocoa Boston.
Thanks for reading,
PlaneDiggerCam
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