Drunk and Drunker

[Privyprowlerz]

Greetings,

home with a broken ankle... haven't dug for months....

anyway here's a dig from a couple years ago. the house was a miners home
and was bought and being remodeled by a couple of guys from down south.

we got them a case of Yuengling lager for the permission. we eventually dug three holes in
the yard. this was the middle aged one.

every time we showed up they were either loaded, getting loaded or hung over, hence the nickname
for the dig.



nice dig of mostly 1880's stuff. in our area we dig a handful of Pine Trees every year it seems.

Jim

 

[2find4me]

Looks like you guys find some good holes over there, I'll take a Pine Tree!

 

[Bass Assassin]

Wow, that's a great dig. I can see all sorts of glass variations and configurations. What was the best find in the lot? Is that flask embossed? Thanks for the photos

 

[andy volkerts]

Hey! those are the best kind of guys to get permissions from!! great sodas, the digging here is far and between none at all...........

 

[Privyprowlerz]

No embossing on the flask. the pine tree was the best out of that hole.

we dug a couple decent local colored sodas out of the older hole.

Jim

 

[bluesunrunner]

nice dig.

 

[Bass Assassin]

No embossing on the flask. the pine tree was the best out of that hole.

we dug a couple decent local colored sodas out of the older hole.

Jim

Ah, yes, I see it now on the back row.

 

[Privyprowlerz]

I think we got two Pine trees out of that hole. looks like a larger green one and a
smaller teal job.

notice the dark color of the stuff coming out of the pit? an odd thing about digging
in coal country, we often find that the coal silt or ashes seems to preserve the glass.
usually it's in the pits with the silt. a theory says that since they were mining up top,
they burned a lot of soft coal to heat their homes. this often led to lots of low quality, unburned
coal being thrown out with the ashes. maybe this is the reason the glass is well preserved.
have never been able to figure out why, but a percentage of the stuff we dig in coal country washes
to near mint at the sink at home.

Jim

 

[Bass Assassin]

Good point. Thinking the coal acts as an insulator for the glass, preserving them

 

[flint_illustrator]

Privyprowlerz: I sent you an inbox message. Thanks

Greetings,

home with a broken ankle... haven't dug for months....

anyway here's a dig from a couple years ago. the house was a miners home
and was bought and being remodeled by a couple of guys from down south.

we got them a case of Yuengling lager for the permission. we eventually dug three holes in
the yard. this was the middle aged one.

every time we showed up they were either loaded, getting loaded or hung over, hence the nickname
for the dig.

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nice dig of mostly 1880's stuff. in our area we dig a handful of Pine Trees every year it seems.

Jim