Cleaning a Sick Bottle

[suzanne]

So how do you obtain them?
Do you just go out and pull them out of the mud or do you have to muck about in it and dig them up?
They are really cool bottles actually. I wish I could find some like that around here. Your bottles look
different than Iowa bottles.

 

[cyberdigger]

The best way was to wait until low tide was nearing, and armed with a tall pair of rubber boots and a shovel, just poke around in the muck until I felt the "ping" of glass, then start scooping around to dislodge what was there.. it was actually very difficult, but i was young.. this was the trash from some 1880-1910 era hotels which, according to my observations, was loaded into wooden barrels and rolled into the river.. I knew when I found barrel planks that the bottles were nigh.. man, I miss that spot, but I spent 2 years working on it until even at dead low tide, it was all underwater.

 

[suzanne]

Very cool. I can just picture you out there like I was right there.

 

[cyberdigger]

You say the bottles you find in Ioway are different.. what kinds do you get there? I would love to see pics of your collection!

 

[suzanne]

Maybe sometime I'll post a picture of my bottle tanning bed! In it the bottles turn purple in the sun. Iowa has lots of hutchinsons, pony's, and giant
amber blob top beers. Illinois, too. I live right on the border by the Mississipi River. Did I spell that right?
I don't know. Well, I have to go drink some beer. I'll be back next week maybe.
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[bottlenutboy]

cant stop laughing at you guys...[]

 

[suzanne]

reply to guntherhess:

I wish to apologize for the heavy handed way I stated my opinion. I have enjoyed reading your posts over
the last year and wish to be freinds but my big mouth gets in the way.

 

[bottlenutboy]

guess we all have that in common...

 

[bottlenutboy]

not me

oh yes i know lobey your the most level headed person i know, and you will do anything to tiptoe around other's feelings i meant everyone BUT you[]

 

[GuntherHess]

reply to guntherhess:

I wish to apologize for the heavy handed way I stated my opinion. I have enjoyed reading your posts over
the last year and wish to be freinds but my big mouth gets in the way.

You have no need to apologize to me. I may not agree with everything you post but I take no offense from it.