Plumbata
Well-Known Member
My brother just got back from studying in Taiwan, and he wanted to do some digging. We hit the TOC dump and moved tons of ash and found lots of bottles, but the vast majority were slick and the good ones mostly broken. The temperature was of unsurpassed excellence though; temps in the 60s in late July are not common, and allow me to dig all day without much fatigue or sweating.
Found a rare Advance hutch from Peoria with a lip chip, an early applied hutch from the Pekin (illinois) Bottling Works with a gigantic lip chip, a nice 1/2 gallon jug, various Hires extract bottles, several local BIM crown sodas, assorted meds, and 2 glass eyeballs from a large doll's head. No new additions to the collection so I left feeling a bit disappointed, but it was still a great dig. I thought about it and realized that if it were a dig had in 2007 I would have gotten 7 new Peoria bottles and been ecstatic so I guess the subjective "quality" of a given dig is all relative. I planned where to sink the next hole and expect it to be both productive and informative so hopefully new collection bottles will be fount the next time out.
Found a rare Advance hutch from Peoria with a lip chip, an early applied hutch from the Pekin (illinois) Bottling Works with a gigantic lip chip, a nice 1/2 gallon jug, various Hires extract bottles, several local BIM crown sodas, assorted meds, and 2 glass eyeballs from a large doll's head. No new additions to the collection so I left feeling a bit disappointed, but it was still a great dig. I thought about it and realized that if it were a dig had in 2007 I would have gotten 7 new Peoria bottles and been ecstatic so I guess the subjective "quality" of a given dig is all relative. I planned where to sink the next hole and expect it to be both productive and informative so hopefully new collection bottles will be fount the next time out.