Wheelah23
Well-Known Member
I went back again to my dump today. The success of this dig taught me the best strategy for finding bottles in the dump. Previously, I was focusing on digging deep in the same hole every time. I found this large pocket of bottles by digging shallowly across a rather large area. I think this will be my strategy from now on, as you can't deny these results.
First is the mild heart attack picture, five blobs and crown tops sticking out side by side. Don't ask me why they're arranged like this, Mother Nature can be a trickster. The picture was taken by my cell phone, so don't blame me for the blurriness.
Here's the day's finds
Here they are a bit cleaner. I learned the hard way that I don't have sufficient cleaning apparatus for these taller bottles, so tomorrow I will hopefully get some long bendy wire to which I can attach some sponge.
This was the first bottle I pulled out. It's a near mint example, the only thing that would make it better is if it was a blob... I dug a broken one here a couple months ago, so I am glad to get a whole one in such nice condition. It's a George Greason tooled crown top from Montclair.
A bit later, I got a quart sized version of this bottle. Two things strike me about it. First of all, insted of the regular TBNTBS embossing, mine says "THIS BOTTLE/ IS REGISTERED". Secondly, look at the neck. It narrows considerably where the tooling for the crown starts. I think the mold was originally made for a blob, and the glass house just switched to crown tops without changing the mold. This makes 4 different Greason variants I own.
Next is a common quart blob from Newark. I had a clear one already, and I dug two aqua ones and another clear one today. I am going to give one away at the next bottle club meeting, just for fun. This one is the nicest example, with strong embossing, nice aqua color, and whittled glass.
I dug a different Newark blob as well. I come across Newark bottles a lot, because I live and dig a few minutes away from Newark. I don't know the rarity of this bottle, but if this website's price is anything to go by, it might be a decent one. "FEIGENSPAN/ P.O.N./ TRADE MARK/ NEWARK, N.J./ THIS BOTTLE NOT TO BE SOLD". I found out P.O.N. stands for "Pride of Newark".
This one's a puzzler. Don't quote me on this, but I think I saw something similar a while ago that I think was a milk bottle. Ideas?
I also dug another one of those butter/cheese mini crocks. This one has some blue lines on it that look like cracks, but I don't feel them at all. Second one I've dug, so they're probably common.
I know these are super common, but I had to bring it home, as it was my first. "CHEESEBOROUGH MFG CO./ VASELINE".
Jar lid again? That makes 8 in as many digs.
This was the crier of the day, I think. It's an apple green Carter's cone ink. [
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I don't really know what this was. It looks like the base of a light olive green/yellow torpedo soda. It can stand on its own. The base is flat, but on the inside, it has what looks like a kickup base.
This is a porcelain lid to something. I'll post some more pictures in the "Unexpected" forum.
And now for the crown jewels of the dig (I apologize for that pun, I couldn't help myself.) Up till now, I had four variations of the J.W. Ransley bottles, all blobs. I never realized they had crown tops, until now, that is. All three are tooled, and look like the molds were used for blobs, then were switched to crown tops, like the Greason quart.
The first one is identical to the one epackage gave me, except this one is a crown, not a blob. "J.W. RANSLEY/ EAST ORANGE, N.J.".
This one has "& SON" tacked underneath the regular "J.W. RANSLEY" embossing.
This one has "& SON" tacked on after "J W RANSLEY". So it turns out all three are different, but only slightly. Now I've got 7 different Ransley variants.
That's about it. Questions? Comments? Concerns?
First is the mild heart attack picture, five blobs and crown tops sticking out side by side. Don't ask me why they're arranged like this, Mother Nature can be a trickster. The picture was taken by my cell phone, so don't blame me for the blurriness.
Here's the day's finds
Here they are a bit cleaner. I learned the hard way that I don't have sufficient cleaning apparatus for these taller bottles, so tomorrow I will hopefully get some long bendy wire to which I can attach some sponge.
This was the first bottle I pulled out. It's a near mint example, the only thing that would make it better is if it was a blob... I dug a broken one here a couple months ago, so I am glad to get a whole one in such nice condition. It's a George Greason tooled crown top from Montclair.
A bit later, I got a quart sized version of this bottle. Two things strike me about it. First of all, insted of the regular TBNTBS embossing, mine says "THIS BOTTLE/ IS REGISTERED". Secondly, look at the neck. It narrows considerably where the tooling for the crown starts. I think the mold was originally made for a blob, and the glass house just switched to crown tops without changing the mold. This makes 4 different Greason variants I own.
Next is a common quart blob from Newark. I had a clear one already, and I dug two aqua ones and another clear one today. I am going to give one away at the next bottle club meeting, just for fun. This one is the nicest example, with strong embossing, nice aqua color, and whittled glass.
I dug a different Newark blob as well. I come across Newark bottles a lot, because I live and dig a few minutes away from Newark. I don't know the rarity of this bottle, but if this website's price is anything to go by, it might be a decent one. "FEIGENSPAN/ P.O.N./ TRADE MARK/ NEWARK, N.J./ THIS BOTTLE NOT TO BE SOLD". I found out P.O.N. stands for "Pride of Newark".
This one's a puzzler. Don't quote me on this, but I think I saw something similar a while ago that I think was a milk bottle. Ideas?
I also dug another one of those butter/cheese mini crocks. This one has some blue lines on it that look like cracks, but I don't feel them at all. Second one I've dug, so they're probably common.
I know these are super common, but I had to bring it home, as it was my first. "CHEESEBOROUGH MFG CO./ VASELINE".
Jar lid again? That makes 8 in as many digs.
This was the crier of the day, I think. It's an apple green Carter's cone ink. [
]
I don't really know what this was. It looks like the base of a light olive green/yellow torpedo soda. It can stand on its own. The base is flat, but on the inside, it has what looks like a kickup base.
This is a porcelain lid to something. I'll post some more pictures in the "Unexpected" forum.
And now for the crown jewels of the dig (I apologize for that pun, I couldn't help myself.) Up till now, I had four variations of the J.W. Ransley bottles, all blobs. I never realized they had crown tops, until now, that is. All three are tooled, and look like the molds were used for blobs, then were switched to crown tops, like the Greason quart.
The first one is identical to the one epackage gave me, except this one is a crown, not a blob. "J.W. RANSLEY/ EAST ORANGE, N.J.".
This one has "& SON" tacked underneath the regular "J.W. RANSLEY" embossing.
This one has "& SON" tacked on after "J W RANSLEY". So it turns out all three are different, but only slightly. Now I've got 7 different Ransley variants.
That's about it. Questions? Comments? Concerns?
