A very successful dig!

[Wheelah23]

ORIGINAL: creeper71

ORIGINAL: Steve/sewell

Nice work Conner thanks for sharing the dig with us. Ouch that 7-up colored ink well would have been a sharp bottle had it been whole.

Isn't that how it always goes? All the decent/rare bottles are busted an almost every dang common is whole?

It does seem that way, doesn't it. There are more commons made than rare bottles, so there's more of them surviving whole. I think on this dig, though, I was pretty lucky. I found as many good bottles whole as broken criers.

This dump was "renovated" a few years ago by construction machines... That renovation included a turnover of all the soil, and a heaping dose of boulders added to the mix. Imagine how many bottles I'd have if there was no construction done... I estimate that only 20% of the bottles once in this dump are whole today. Half of those are 6 feet under the ground, and I've still found this many...

 

[the ham man]

awesome finds man!!! I would be so siked to be pulling those out of the ground. We haven't found any dumps that old yet. Maybe a few years newer than that but I think almost everything was broken[:'(]. Keep em coming

 

[Wheelah23]

I think bottlers in my area switched to crown tops earlier than other parts of the country... Then they either switched to machine made stuff or died. I still find blobs, but the dreaded tooled crowns seem to be more common... I don't know why, but there seems to be some stigma about tooled crowns. They're not all bad!

 

[epackage]

Connor, this may be your HOLY GRAIL King Ransley...[8D]

http://cgi.ebay.com/East-Orange-New-Jersey-Stoneware-Ransley-Cider-Cooler-/130526474890?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1e63fbf28a

 

[epackage]

..and you need to keep your eyes peeled for a billhead like this one if you're gonna be KING...[]

 

[epackage]

....and another without the son, this one sold for $603 two years ago....

 

[epackage]

...in 1908....

Seven drivers and eight shopmen employed at the mineral water factory of J. W. Ransley Sons & Co., East Orange, went out on strike to enforce a demand they had made on the firm for an increase of wages.

from here....


http://books.google.com/books?pg=PA657&lpg=PA657&dq=%22j.w.%20ransley%22%20-bottle&sig=4u3XYJkIOKFI7dbSpcavQJk0JzE&ei=aqrjTebYKOLV0QHph7S2Bw&ct=result&id=anBJAAAAMAAJ&ots=jH5RgFZwHG&output=text

 

[epackage]

...this one sold for $575 in 2010...

 

[epackage]

....and finally this seltzer, a member here has it and I would see if he wants to do some trading....

here is the post it's from, I would contact Mike O if I planned on being the Ransley King. I've given you some stuff to hunt for now, best of luck buddy.....Jim


http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:0S6aZvdylCoJ:www.antique-bottles.net/forum/fb.asp%3Fm%3D338385+%22j.w.+ransley%22+-bottle&cd=11&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&source=www.google.com

 

[Wheelah23]

ORIGINAL: epackage

Connor, this may be your HOLY GRAIL King Ransley...[8D]

http://cgi.ebay.com/East-Orange-New-Jersey-Stoneware-Ransley-Cider-Cooler-/130526474890?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1e63fbf28a

For that price, I'm more like the Ransley court jester... I could insult the seller by offering him $75 or $100, but I don't think that would get me anywhere... In my dreams, I can get one of those jugs. I've dug a couple jugs in pieces, so there's hope.