Hi All!
This will be my first post, I hope it's a good one.
I'm lucky enough to work for an earthwork company in one of the oldest cities in Florida and I've been picking old glass for as long as I can remember.
A few weeks back I was picking in a fresh pile of dirt that was brought in.
It was a special night for me because it was the 10 year anniversary of the passing of my father and I was happy to be alone, digging.
It was a bit late and after not finding very much in the way of bottles, I sat down on the ground to get some rocks out of my shoes. Now, I have a few bottle hounds I work with and the pile had been picked over pretty good at that point.
As I took my shoe off my light shined under a piece of tree stump that was mixed in with the dirt directly in front of me. I could just make out a bottle neck sticking up. I never walk past any piece of bottle unless I make sure it’s not a whole one. So, when I finished I leaned forward in a have-ass effort to check it then get back to picking. When I pulled it out I saw that it was an inkwell. Since my friend had already found a brown umbrella ink I figured that’s what it was because it was covered in dirt. I put it in my bucket and kept on looking.
The next day after work I looked through the bucket to see what I had found because it was really late when I got home the night before.
When I pulled the inkwell out I saw that it was blue inkwell and an umbrella to boot!
So, here it is, feel free to let me know what I got, good or bad…
Rick
This will be my first post, I hope it's a good one.
I'm lucky enough to work for an earthwork company in one of the oldest cities in Florida and I've been picking old glass for as long as I can remember.
A few weeks back I was picking in a fresh pile of dirt that was brought in.
It was a special night for me because it was the 10 year anniversary of the passing of my father and I was happy to be alone, digging.
It was a bit late and after not finding very much in the way of bottles, I sat down on the ground to get some rocks out of my shoes. Now, I have a few bottle hounds I work with and the pile had been picked over pretty good at that point.
As I took my shoe off my light shined under a piece of tree stump that was mixed in with the dirt directly in front of me. I could just make out a bottle neck sticking up. I never walk past any piece of bottle unless I make sure it’s not a whole one. So, when I finished I leaned forward in a have-ass effort to check it then get back to picking. When I pulled it out I saw that it was an inkwell. Since my friend had already found a brown umbrella ink I figured that’s what it was because it was covered in dirt. I put it in my bucket and kept on looking.
The next day after work I looked through the bucket to see what I had found because it was really late when I got home the night before.
When I pulled the inkwell out I saw that it was blue inkwell and an umbrella to boot!
So, here it is, feel free to let me know what I got, good or bad…
Rick
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