Dug this 10 footer after the tornado!

[cannibalfromhannibal]

Well, almost after....we got smacked around by 2 twisters here in Hannibal on Monday the 20th and lost power for 6 days. Now I can only imagine those less fortunate in Oklahoma and elsewhere! So I went out a week later and dug a hole and jumped in it. Went from machined era near the top to 1870's at the bottom. Problem was water in the last 2 feet where the 70's stuff was. So I went noodeling for bottles, bare handed! Escaped with only a slight nick, and wasn't from fishing around! Was paid off by finding my first colored Hannibal med, an L. Orynski who was in business from 1871 to 1880. I went home that night with about half the hole left with 2 feet of muck to fish out and had the thought there was likely a larger sized one. Sure enough, next am when I returned and got into the hole, found half a dozen more in the muck. Just as I thought I found the last, I felt a pretty solid piece of glass and up came the larger one! Made my day for sure! Found the small one right before the larger one and though unembossed, am fairly certain it is a label only Orynski. Also found my first breast pump undamaged....with a decrepit rubber bulb....and a frozen Charolette doll missing her right arm and foot.....think she needs renaming to frozen Eileen, as in I Lean! HaHa! Jack

 

[cannibalfromhannibal]

Well, had to resize the pic of the hole.....

 

[cannibalfromhannibal]

Pic of the 3 Orynski pharms.....

 

[cannibalfromhannibal]

Pic of the larger one with backlighting.....

 

[epackage]

Nice finds, be safe out there!!

 

[deacon_frost]

Killer med, I have also dug one of those water filled privys and we could swipe our foot along the bottom and bottles would float up to the surface. Had to go back several times to refill the dang thing cause the ones with high water content seem to sink in bad. Keep me in mind if you happen across some Boonville Missouri bottles

 

[cannibalfromhannibal]

Thanx Jim, now we gotta worry about flooding for the second time this year! YIKES! Figured to be safe in a hole when a twister rolls by but the water is making a muckery of my hobby! Keepin' me in shape though with all that extra weight! Look like I ben sloppin' da hawgs all the day long by the end! Ha! Jack

 

[cannibalfromhannibal]

Deacon, will do....same for any Hannibals your way......Jack

 

[madman]

great finds! those pharms are nice as well as the other bottles!

 

[cacarpetbagger]

Nice dig, congrats.