maineahh62
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hello every one, the weather here in maine has been great for bottle digging these past few day's, aside from the tick's and the inch long gash i recived from a shard of glass, it has been some what fruitful, i just wanted to share my find's with you all.
a nice clear embossed bottle- linden on one side and new jersey on the other side embossed with capital letter's.
a nice rawleighs bottle- embossed with rawleighs in curseve on the front-it has a nice green tint to it.
a clear ball ideal jar- embossed with ball ideal pat d july 14 1908 on the front and the number one on the bottom
a very nice hood milk bottle-embossed on one side with- store-h.p. hood & sons dairy experts registered- embossed on the other side with- maine seal L52- one pint- hood- bottom is embossed with hood store 1939.
another milk bottle no name it has embossed on it - one quart liquid- maine seal 1- h b 169- embossed on the bottom with hTs and a 9 embossed in a circle.
the milk bottles after being in the ground and being washed still have the milk smell.
also i dug up a fork and a spoon the spoon seem's thin once i get some brasso to it i'm hopeing it will be made of silver, hopeing.
all these find's came from the spot were i discoverd my first bottle's some umpteen million years ago, it was good to go back to this spot and dig after all these years, there is definitly incrochment now and i doubt i will ever be able to dig it again after this year, new homes going up in the area are eating away at that piece of the past, i had a great time out there these past two days and just wanted to share.
a nice clear embossed bottle- linden on one side and new jersey on the other side embossed with capital letter's.
a nice rawleighs bottle- embossed with rawleighs in curseve on the front-it has a nice green tint to it.
a clear ball ideal jar- embossed with ball ideal pat d july 14 1908 on the front and the number one on the bottom
a very nice hood milk bottle-embossed on one side with- store-h.p. hood & sons dairy experts registered- embossed on the other side with- maine seal L52- one pint- hood- bottom is embossed with hood store 1939.
another milk bottle no name it has embossed on it - one quart liquid- maine seal 1- h b 169- embossed on the bottom with hTs and a 9 embossed in a circle.
the milk bottles after being in the ground and being washed still have the milk smell.
also i dug up a fork and a spoon the spoon seem's thin once i get some brasso to it i'm hopeing it will be made of silver, hopeing.
all these find's came from the spot were i discoverd my first bottle's some umpteen million years ago, it was good to go back to this spot and dig after all these years, there is definitly incrochment now and i doubt i will ever be able to dig it again after this year, new homes going up in the area are eating away at that piece of the past, i had a great time out there these past two days and just wanted to share.
] hope it is not too bad..also understand the tick thing...they seem to be thriving here..loved reading your post...so sad that a part of history is again being destroyed by development[&o] intresting to read about milk bottles, not something I have a lot of experience in..tonight talking with boyfriends brother, he tells me that there is a ditch in town that has old milk bottles in it...what should I be looking for?? I take it that embossing is good ( of course)[
