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The past Thursday when temperatures reached a steamy 80 degrees in PA, I was able to get out and continue searching a spot I've been working on for about a year. Sadly there were a lot of late 1800's / early 1900's bottles that were intact enough to read but were broken. Many were near depressions in the ground where it looked like someone may have dug years ago. I just wanted to document that these bottles exist. I did a search on here and could not find any results for a Masontown bottle. I think the Marshall Uniontown bottle was a blob-top.
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i see Bruce Mobley has them pictured on his bottle site. LEON.


http://brucemobley.com/beerbottlelibrary/pa/index.htm

http://brucemobley.com/beerbottlelibrary/pa/index.htm


http://brucemobley.com/beerbottlelibrary/pa/masontown/masontown.htm
 
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i see Bruce Mobley has them pictured on his bottle site. LEON.


http://brucemobley.com/beerbottlelibrary/pa/index.htm

http://brucemobley.com/beerbottlelibrary/pa/index.htm


http://brucemobley.com/beerbottlelibrary/pa/masontown/masontown.htm

Thanks for the links! I didn't know of that site before, so I bookmarked it.
 

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I agree with sandchip, cool even though they are broken. It's great to watch you pull out bottles with town names I am familiar with. It gives me something to hope for when I am in PA.
 

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The past Thursday when temperatures reached a steamy 80 degrees in PA, I was able to get out and continue searching a spot I've been working on for about a year. Sadly there were a lot of late 1800's / early 1900's bottles that were intact enough to read but were broken. Many were near depressions in the ground where it looked like someone may have dug years ago. I just wanted to document that these bottles exist. I did a search on here and could not find any results for a Masontown bottle. I think the Marshall Uniontown bottle was a blob-top.
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Don't toss them away - make drinking glasses out of them!

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I've been doing that for a while now, and always pick up sweet, but topless bottles and give them a new life.

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I thought about that. I've seen people on Etsy who sell them. But I don't have the special equipment to cut and grind glass. While I"m here I might as well add this Stegmaier beer bottle from Wilkes-Barre.
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