New Dump Site - a bit of everything

yacorie · Jan 2, 2019

BottleDragon said:
Those are some nice sodas and beers. Hard to believe they were left, though perhaps they're common for that area. As mentioned, any damage, even a small chip will turn off many diggers unless it's a rare bottle.

Yeah, same here. I leave 90% of what I dig, and still take home too many. Then when I get home and start cleaning them I usually find a few more either damaged or just ones I regret taking. Those go back with me on my next trip.

That's still a nice selection of bottles. I typically always bring home any good canning jars and embossed medicines, even if they're common ones. Cobalt slicks I normally leave, because they're quite numerous around here. Milk glass, it just depends on whether I like the design, but there are so many different ones. Green bottles I also take because I don't come across very many at all.

Well thats probably true of a bunch of stuff we bring home. We bring home anything thats embossed or "looks cool" and then we figure out the deal once we rinse them off at home. There are certainly dings/cracks in some of the stuff we bring home. Also, some of the bottles that are new to us, might be common and we figure that out later. Anything with color we bring home usually There are a bunch of green bottles with no embossing that we leave there, but now that you mention it, we dont' find many green ones either.

yacorie · Jan 2, 2019

So my son and I decided to hit this dump again on New Years Day. This time we did a little bit of digging - but not too much. Still came home with 2 overflowing 5 gallon buckets of bottles. I'll admit, we keep things that others probably toss back beause they are chipped or cracked. If they're bad, we leave them but if its one we don't have or haven't seen - it comes home. We also throw "anything that looks cool" in the bucket.

here are pictures from the day. Not sure what the amber Pilgrim embossed bottle is and I can't seem to locate other examples of Portland Bottling Works Portland CT even though its very local to me. I can see from the directory that it was there but can't find much else, thought it might be because Portland Bottling from Oregon is all over the place when I search.

Hopefully people don't mind pictures

Picture 1 - atlas/ball jars
Picture 2 - 1/2 gallon Dazzle Amber, 3 Virginia Dare, 1 champagne
Picture 3 - some random 'cool bottle', one with a pilgrim that i can't ID and a readville Dry Gin
Pictures 4 and 5 - each side of the amber pilgrim bottle
Picture 6 - Large medicine bottle, unmarked amber bottle, Star water, Lydia Pinkham and Wayne Country Produce
Picture 7 - Pluto Water, RJ Ritter, Merrill's Saybrook CT, Granite Rock Water, Charter Oak Beverages Hartford CT
Picture 8 - 3 different Portland Bottling works Portland CT (I cannot find pictures of other bottles from here anywhere for some reason), Great Pacific Tea
Picture 9, 10, 11 - some random bottles/jars
Picture 12 - 1933 Chicago Worlds Fair Bottle - I need to get the lid off.

GLASSHOPPER55 · Jan 2, 2019

Dang I like that Chicago World's Fair bottle! There were tons of Fair souverirs but that's a winner in my book!

Len · Dec 6, 2020

Sounds like a dig spot you can go back to for a long time. Congrats. My wife used to say similiar things to me. Now she likes them too. Have you sold any over the last three years? If you haven't start and take her out to dinner. --Len

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