Robby Raccoon
Trash Digger
First, what should I do about a bottle with its cap on it where the cap has a small hole in it and I want to keep the cap intact? Should I carefully remove it?
Someone wrote on most of them. Been working on removing those issues. All written on were dated in the 1960s. Maybe expiration dates? Others said 10 CT. 10 count? Today after class, I was driving home and was on the main road that branches off into my own when, suddenly, I noticed an Estate Sale sign.So I keep going, turn off, and pull up into a large throng of cars filling the sides of the road. And I park in the grass, step out of the Neon I now drive, and go up to the garage. I first hit the upstairs where I was looking through vintage books for specifics and suddenly overheard someone asking one of the people working there, "What's downstairs?"I'm still too focused to really be listening in, but suddenly I hear, "There's furniture, lamps, pictures, and bottles."I set down what I was looking at as nothing went back before the 1920s (some really good '20s books, though,) and made my way to the basement. I turn right into a dull laundry room and see it filled with jars. Although I was not quite despairing (I know little on jars,) I began looking through them and trying to figure out if 1-3 dollars was an acceptable risk on any. I decided No and was disappointed, for if there were jars there, would there not also be bottles? I leave that room after taking a peak behind the stairwell-- couldn't see much, for it was too pitch-black. Suddenly, looking right, Bottles! Oh yay. ACLs, paper-label, but nothing embossed. Shame, but alas: There were a few worth picking up, and others semi-local if not local, so certainly a must-have at the price of $1 each.And I look for date-codes. Shoot, man. 1968, 1973. Oh, but wait, 1958, 1963-- ah, a bit better. And so I begin to make a pile.
An early Diet beverage put out by Seven-Up. ^ I add to the pile a Grand Rapids paper label bottle-- rough shape, a bit too modern, but I'll take it: Sunglow Royal Blend Cola, 1963.I find several diet Like bottles; hmm, interesting. And I grabbed an unopened one and an opened one-- the two best, in which I got one with a 5 Cent off cap from Quality Beverage Co. of Muskegon-- my town. I picked it up more for the cap than anything else. Didn't need multiples of this bottle.
Around from 1963 to 1969. The ones I picked up were 1963 and 1964.
A coupon or sale cap that has a small hole in it [
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1959 Par-T-Pack paper label, 1963 Sunglow Cola from a near city, 1958 Vernors Ginger Ale with a "note" that they age their flavor for 4 years.
Back.
1959 Paper label Par-T-Pak. ^
Threw them in this vintage carrier. It's not very old (Pepsi bottles in it dated 1973,) and I likely won't keep it, but it's a good holder for now.
All of this was buried in decades of dust. I went back, grabbed the other unopened one which has a Spur cap on it from my town as well. Also a Little Squirt twist (Squirt) from I'm guessing the 1950s, several tins including some nearing 100 years old, an an ACL jar. One tin I so badly want to open, but we cannot get it open. I'm not sure that it's been opened since it was made, and it may be a century or more old. Whatever is in it rattles around. Not sure what Patent Applied For Eureka Tape Repairer looks like. It's for a doz. 5/16 heavy ___? The back tells me what to do and makes it seem like some sort of sleeve for joining two broken ends of metal. The 'tape' is not tape as I understand it.
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