Bottles dug & bottles bought

[epgorge]

Iron pontil

 

[epgorge]

IP

 

[richf]

They are beauties ... were they bought or dug?
I see you have a bit of snow up there ... we have enough to just cover the grass here in northeast PA.
Rich

 

[capsoda]

Great lookin bottles EP.

 

[epgorge]

Mos of the last ones were purchased. The scrolls wer certainly purchased as they have been sitting in someone's desk of behind glass for 100 years. They are pristine.

Paid a good price for them but they are worth it. Hell, I am just baby sittin them anyway.

If you go back further you will see the first few pictures I sent in were dug. the idea was to show how dug bottles are special and unique, but as your appreciation grows for more expensive ones, it is quicker to buy them. I would have never found an old scroll digging, or a demi, or any of the SanFrancisco fine whiskeys. On the other hand I do have access to an abundance of strap sides and other flasks that were prevalent during the civil war years, which didn't go out west.

Ep

Yeah we are finally gettin snow. The winter economy is hurting.

 

[epgorge]

Me playing my Gibson Les Paul Classic. The other neck of the guitar is being played by my 25 year old son.
Ep

 

[epgorge]

one more, playing bass that night.

 

[richf]

I like that - a bottle collecting musician! I played years ago ... too many years ago at this point.
Like there, the winter economy here wasn't doing too good. They just started making snow at the ski resorts about two or so weeks ago. It'll be a short season for sure. Digging in these parts has stopped, as the ground finally froze.
You're right about buying the better bottles - they're tough to dig and if you want one, it's easier to shell out the money than hope to find one.
Rich

 

[epgorge]

Hey, we are all hunters and gatherers by nature. A good find is always a good find.

Bottle collector, bluesman and hunter.
Ep

 

[epgorge]

I am also a writer. I owned a town newspaper for eight years. Have been in radio news all my life. Back when news was subjective rather than objective. I write now for an outdoors magazine called Outdoors Magazine. Inagine that! I also write for Vermont Living Magazine. I have a center spread feature on Catamounts; Fact or Fiction, in Vermont! Coming out in the spring, problably March or April edition.

I have published two books, one on local history and the other a colletin of peoms, written by my father. I am also working on the comprehensive dairy farms of Vermont & upstate New York after the fall of the sheep industry and the onset of the dairy industry. This book will be primarily about the demise of thefamily farm but will cneter around the bottles used in creameries and dairies around the area. It hasn't been written yet.
Joel

This trout came out of my yard. That is my cousin with the S-eating grin. He caught it. It was 23.4 inches, brown.