Dug some OLD stuff...Broken old stuff..

[Oldtimer]

I went back to a dump I found earlier...and found a pontiled bottom shard right off! I found lots of heartbreakers, like a sweet blue bottle that would have been about 9" tall and round....A panel from a bottle that read "American Medical Supply Co. New York." Before I was done, I found 4 pontiled bases..........Only one whole bottle was found, not by me, but by my digging bud Dave. A Carters # 7 ink, aqua colored. Not too special, but whole and not damaged.

 

[Pontiled]

Just a comment, from my personal experience... If you went back in time and placed 10 embossed, pontiled pieces in a whole and placed 1 unembossed pontiled piece with them, how many would survive today?

One, the unembossed pontiled piece, and that one would be cracked!

Maybe your lucky will be better...

 

[IRISH]

Hey Mike, maybe they where sadistic buggers who somehow knew someone would treasure there emptys in a hundred years to come [] broke all the good ones and left one plain one just to keep you looking [] [] .
I came up with that theory a few years ago after a day digging up a good range of rare and valuble Codd bottles that kids had knocked the tops off for the marbles [] after a days digging we had one mint plain one and three very common ones [8|], all the good ones where bung.

 

[Aerated]

TOO RIGHT!!.[]
Thats the trouble with collecting Codd bottles, marbles being such a popular game back then.I found that for every 10 broken embossed Codds you'd get one whole plain one.
Just as bad is digging a complete one, and finding on closer inspection that it has been "money boxed".This happened to me on a bottle that would have been the 2nd complete specimen known.After taking into account results from previous unsuccesful digs, Ive come to these conclusions-


*Unembossed bottles are INDESTRUCTIBLE (ring seal beers will survive anything)
*The more writing/distinguishing features it has the more pieces it will be in
*Coloured glass- refer to above

None of that matters, however when you dig a good pit & get some whole treasures![]

 

[drjhostetters]

Hey Aer...

Excuse my ignorance....what do you mean..."moneyboxed"?

[8|] The Doc...Dr J....[X(]

 

[IRISH]

They used to knock out one side of the groove that the marble sits on to make a slot then use it as a moneybox/piggybank.