Plumbata
Well-Known Member
Nothing special lately, went with my dad on my birthday to the dump in Peoria to show him the extent of the digging, and we scratched around for 20 minutes and walked around the piles looking for goodies that had been missed. Dug a few masons, an ashtray, and a crappy cobalt, then found 2 more masons that must have been tossed in a previous dig that were worth keeping. I saw more evidence of someone else digging there, including a bent hoe and another unfinished canister of wintergreen long cut skoal. Unless it was missed by me a while ago, they tossed a handblown bromo seltzer and a cobalt cork magnesia, nothing special but when you get a decent size lot together they are (marginally) worth selling on ebay.
Finds, minus the 4 masons and a really sweet deep purple glass ashtray.
The big magnesia was found on the ground, the smaller ones dug with by brother. Is the smallest one a sample or just a cheap single use size?
Yesterday, I had the itch to find something so i was checking out a creek in Champaign which has always been good to me. A burrowing animal kicked out a Speedway Remedy Co. Shelby, Ohio blown bottle, but scratching around turned nothing else up. I found another area in the bank that looked promising so I started scratching away, and was pulling out nice blown beers, all broken. Then I got a crappy blown "walnutta" and a blown ink, and decided to leave after digging a nice 1925 milk from Champaign, about 45 minutes after starting. There is plenty more in there but I need to bring a shovel next time. I've dug 1 of the same size milk before but it is still a worthy find, and it is attractive too.
This is a capers i dug a while ago. It is broken but I kept it so i could figure out what the label says. It is french, and indicates that it held mustard, not capers. I guess this means that "capers" bottles probably held just about any condiment or pickled item.
This was bought cheap a while ago. It is a bottle from the "Postoffice Pharmacy Aberdeen, Wash." The town was apparently a rather rough place back in the days of this bottle, but the aspect I liked most was the embossed mailbox, which is probably not a particularly common design. Looks just like the mailboxes we use nowadays too.
Finds, minus the 4 masons and a really sweet deep purple glass ashtray.
The big magnesia was found on the ground, the smaller ones dug with by brother. Is the smallest one a sample or just a cheap single use size?
Yesterday, I had the itch to find something so i was checking out a creek in Champaign which has always been good to me. A burrowing animal kicked out a Speedway Remedy Co. Shelby, Ohio blown bottle, but scratching around turned nothing else up. I found another area in the bank that looked promising so I started scratching away, and was pulling out nice blown beers, all broken. Then I got a crappy blown "walnutta" and a blown ink, and decided to leave after digging a nice 1925 milk from Champaign, about 45 minutes after starting. There is plenty more in there but I need to bring a shovel next time. I've dug 1 of the same size milk before but it is still a worthy find, and it is attractive too.
This is a capers i dug a while ago. It is broken but I kept it so i could figure out what the label says. It is french, and indicates that it held mustard, not capers. I guess this means that "capers" bottles probably held just about any condiment or pickled item.
This was bought cheap a while ago. It is a bottle from the "Postoffice Pharmacy Aberdeen, Wash." The town was apparently a rather rough place back in the days of this bottle, but the aspect I liked most was the embossed mailbox, which is probably not a particularly common design. Looks just like the mailboxes we use nowadays too.
