Been meaning to post all week! a few random things.

[GuntherHess]

Here's a close up of the small green embossed (What I thought was a druggist) Geez,..."RICIN!" and I had decided to scrub it out a little bit for the pic, before I read the embossing... I better toss that bottle brush...nice looking little bottle.

I would imagine this is (or should be) considered a poison?

They are classified as poisons. I dont think the products was sold as a poison though. Probably a castor oil laxative.
Probably could kill you if you drank too much, thus the green warning color.
Dont think i have see an ad for it. If anyone knows more please post it.

 

[RICKJJ59W]

ORIGINAL: JOETHECROW

Barn foundation "corners" and flywheel from old engine....there was also quite a lot of horse or oxen harness pieces and old leather...

That fly wheel would make a good pulley for pullin privy buckets []
cool lookin foundation. diger up

 

[RICKJJ59W]

ORIGINAL: JOETHECROW

Here's a close up of the small green embossed (What I thought was a druggist) Geez,..."RICIN!"[:'(] and I had decided to scrub it out a little bit for the pic, before I read the embossing... [] I better toss that bottle brush...nice looking little bottle.

I would imagine this is (or should be) considered a poison?

Nice RICIN Joe,yep that stuff will kill ya
I dug the large one at the river dump and the small one at the Jordan dump,love these bottles

 

[JOETHECROW]

Very cool that you dug two different sizes of them at two different dumps Rick...I like that shade of green,...the oval panel for the embossing, and the peaked 'arch' above the oval panel...That plus the crazy (by our time standard) embossing make them a pretty cool bottle, and they're a poison to boot!

 

[808 50th State]

Hey Joe: Looks like you and Penn Digger had a great time scouting and finding future places to dig...Scouting can be fun especially if something good turns out... That area sure looks really old, it always makes me wonder what was going on during that time and how it all ended up being abandon...Like those bottles that was found in the antique store, nice looking flask and green medicine bottle, that 3rd bluish green bottle in the group picture does it have any kind of embossing, I dug a very similar bottle that had embossing (LUNDBORG NEW YORK)...aloha Earl

 

[RICKJJ59W]

ORIGINAL: JOETHECROW

Very cool that you dug two different sizes of them at two different dumps Rick...I like that shade of green,...the oval panel for the embossing, and the peaked 'arch' above the oval panel...That plus the crazy (by our time standard) embossing make them a pretty cool bottle, and they're a poison to boot!

Yeah they have a color all there own.

 

[rockbot]

ORIGINAL: JOETHECROW

I meant to post this early last week, but was too busy to do so...This is just the briefest of posts about last weekend, Penn Digger and I took off looking for a spot with some promise...We have at least two good possibles,..one is 2 hours distant and the other is an old privy/well/cistern that is filled in to seven feet right now, but the homeowner found blobtops in it before gradually filling it in. Until the water table lowers we can't get in there to dig. We drove to a neighboring town to probe some of Penn's mothers rental propertys for a privy...no luck but the tenant's dog had been digging up glass in an old brick planter built onto the carriage house..that glass was too recent for us...We then drove to an old cellar hole I had explored a few years ago....We found broken aqua inks, mason lids and aqua blob necks in the creek near the house but couldn't find their origin. We did find a few oddities, but my camera had lost it's battery charge by then. We found a milk glass goblet that was complete. A ceramic elephant (not so complete)[]..I also found a rose decorated saucer, A half of a 24' mill stone, and a few other oddities. Here are a few random pics...(Also the cellar was so well constructed that you could literally rebuild upon it... )
Here's a rare Penn Digger sighting.[]

Good to see you and Tom out and about. Hows Tom? haven't seen him on the forum.
I like that bigfoot pic you had of him awhile back![]
That old foundation is in great shape. Who owns the land?

 

[myersdiggers1998]

There's gotta be a privy there somewhere,any indications of old poop holes/wells?

 

[ajohn]

ORIGINAL: JOETHECROW

From a mason's point of view those walls were done by a master.The stone almost looks cut.Masons were well thought of folks back then,but now we're just "construction workers"[&o]
I love seeing stuf like this,Thanks for posting Joe.

 

[Penn Digger]

Rockbot Tony,

I am doing just fine, just been very busy the last few months dealing with stress and changes in my life. Glad that digging season seems to have finally returned. Went to the Rochester bottle show toady with Joe and had a great time getting some great deals on some awesome bottles. We drove through snow/hail on the way back late this afternoon though.

PD
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