Augusta, Georgia "Big Dig" PICTURES

[IloiloKano]

Stacker Jug Extraction...

 

[Plumbata]

When bottle diggers die, their heavenly reward would be that dump.

Incredible stuff, more pictures please!

 

[IloiloKano]

Reward! One more stacker jug.

 

[IloiloKano]

One Center Script SS Coke (unfortunately, with a fire blistered top) from Augusta, GA of course.

 

[IloiloKano]

It will join the rest of it's less than perfect brethren along the wall.

 

[JOETHECROW]

I believe my brother said they got $6,000 for it. Another thing they found that brought a significant amount of money was a "Monkey Jug", .................. I wasn't there for the last pick, and my brother sold most of his picks back to the diggers, .......

Steven,...welcome to the forum,...and I'm glad you could share your dig here....Looks like some potential for some really good stuff, having said that, I mean no offense to you, but it leaves me kinda cold, hearing the dig repeatedly referred to in such accounting terms,...and with the emphasis on money.[]

 

[pjritter]

ORIGINAL: IloiloKano

Though well over 90% of the bottles and jugs are broken, that still leaves plenty that survived 100+ years in the Augusta city dump.

Are they broken because of the bucket?

 

[IloiloKano]

So for any offense, but as I stated, neither I nor my brother are bottle collectors, and though I find them enticing, my brother is purely a businessman. As a coin collector, I am not offended when someone tells me about how much money they received for coins they inherited, so I didn't expect to offend anyone by my own manner in describing the one day I spent with folks who are indeed serious bottle collectors.

I am not a part of the dig. I just dropped by one day (during vacation to see my family) to photograph the operation. However, my brother offered to let me sell much of the items he will receive from his share in the next pick date this coming June, so I came to this web site primarily to gather a bit of an education about items that I may eventually attempt to sell. I just decided to share pictures I had taken when I saw there was a forum that seemed appropriate.

I hope you aren't too put off to enjoy the pictures, though these will be the last for tonight.

ORIGINAL: JOETHECROW

 

I believe my brother said they got $6,000 for it. Another thing they found that brought a significant amount of money was a "Monkey Jug", .................. I wasn't there for the last pick, and my brother sold most of his picks back to the diggers, ....... 

Steven,...welcome to the forum,...and I'm glad you could share your dig here....Looks like some potential for some really good stuff, having said that, I mean no offense to you, but it leaves me kinda cold, hearing the dig repeatedly referred to in such accounting terms,...and with the emphasis on money.[]

 

[surfaceone]

Hey Steven,

Thanks for the dig photos and blow by blow. Does this mean we can expect gaps in future coverage of the Augusta diggings? Were any of those digging guys contributors here at the ole Blue Pages, besides yourself?

Welcome and thanks.

 

[IloiloKano]

If I lived in the Augusta area, I'd be happy to keep people updated, but I live in Southern California (which I will never consider home, by the way). So I doubt there will be an update until the next pick date. I believe Bill Baab wrote an article for a bottle collecting magazine, since I seem to recall him mentioning something about covering the dig through 2011, but not having included something they found a day earlier, which was the last day of 2011, in the article. I'll send him an email and specifically ask him about it, and if I find out the name of the magazine, I'll pass that information along.

I have also already sent him a link to this post by email and received a short reply back, so maybe he'll contribute something at a later date.

Somewhere I have the email address for Mike Newman, one of the diggers, and if I can find it I'll send him a note directing him to this site as well.

ORIGINAL: surfaceone

Hey Steven,

Thanks for the dig photos and blow by blow. Does this mean we can expect gaps in future coverage of the Augusta diggings? Were any of those digging guys contributors here at the ole Blue Pages, besides yourself?

Welcome and thanks.