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digger dun

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So, I was driving the truck down the avenue on Manhattan's lower east side when I rolled by a 40 yard roll off dumpster full of black mud. They had gutted an old building and were digging out the basement by hand, bucket by bucket, and had reached the water table. I walked around the dumpster, not seeing much until...out of the mud like a glass mushroom stood this taper top open pontil aqua cylinder. This just made my day. I've been teased with shards of the highest caliber for a long while now, so I was so stoked as I wiped the mud off the base that I began to tremble. I've been back to that dumpster twice now, and found nothing else, but the construction manager there promises me he'll save any other bottle they find for me...fingers crossed. They've still got 4 ' of back yard fill to go... [attachment=Image091120140941061.jpg][attachment=Image091120141313291.jpg] [attachment=Image091120141313441.jpg]
 

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Awesome potential there, good luck finding some embossed and pontiled colored pieces! I wonder if you can figure out where the fill is being dumped? If not the landfill, then there may be some big vacant lots full of bottle and coin-rich piles just waiting for you to pilfer them!
 

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That is a nice one for sure!
Lets hope that ya get in that one! Fingers crossed! You have the sharpest eye for glass! I swear if I ever lose a sewing needle I will call on you to help me find it!
 

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I'm just guessing without dimensions etc but it looks like an TPM OP Florida Water. A food something isn't out of the question either.
 

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