A bit of a crier from this weekends privy digging....

[baltbottles]

Dark shaded amber GI-119 Columbia / Eagle flask from this Sundays privy. The 2nd one in this color I have dug broken and a 4th broken example for my digging partner If only they hadn't dipped this privy and packed the layer down with bricks... There were also about a half dozen pontiled sodas in the pit all broken we did get three pontiled puffs that survived......

Chris

 

[epackage]

Too bad, that woulda been a beauty Chris, better luck on your next dig...

 

[cacarpetbagger]

Bummer, still must have been exciting. Good luck on the next one.

 

[Steve/sewell]

Boy oh boy Chris that is ashamed what a bottle!!! That would easily command 15,0000.00 to 20,000.00 at auction. One day when you least expect it you will find one. Where were you at for this one Chris Baltimore or Philadelphia ?

 

[baltbottles]

Steve, We were digging in Baltimore at the time. Its funny I have never dug a shard of any of these in Philadelphia.... But have dug over a dozen of them broken in Baltimore in various colors...

Chris

 

[beendiggin]

Better luck next time. Still a beauty even as a fragment.

 

[sandchip]

That just ties my tummy in knots. Wow.

 

[THE BADGER]

VERY NICE CHRIS

 

[Steve/sewell]

You know Chris GI-119s were very likely made in Baltimore as you have surmised in the past.It seems there was a lot of contact between Bridgeton New Jersey glass owners and workers and Baltimore in the late 1820s up until around 1840. The color is close to some of the Corn For The World flasks made around the same time. Very likely a Fells Point flask.

 

[JOETHECROW]

What a flask....

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