First dig of the year-not too bad

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Well, we've had a long hiatus from digging this year. I walked a lot of different promising spots in late winter/early spring that looked good on the map, but didn't find anything promising. Yvette and I went to a spot that we talked about digging last year, it's a small triangle of woods, maybe a couple of acres large. We found a small dump site, two days of digging total. She found this nice squat soda, and I found the ball cover. I know this cover is fairly rare - and the first one we've found. It originally had a screw band around it. The squat soda is also a first for us. This was a TOC dump with lots of cast iron, of which we kept a few nice decorative pieces. It's great to be back on the forum - I've been away so long, nice to see the other posts and the great stuff coming out of the ground. Hope everyone has had a great summer so far.

Richard

 

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Squat next to full size blob. The bottle reads side one: HENRY REHM // COR SECOND & // BLOOMFIELD STS // HOBOKEN. N.J.

 

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Ball Perfection cap

 

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Anything Jersey if a great find in my eyes, glad you got there...[]

 

[Wheelah23]

I'd be happy with a squat any day! That sure looks like a nice one. Yours isn't listed on Tod's site sodasandbeers.com, so I'd email him about it. It looks to be 1880's with that Putnam wire, any idea how it ended up with that Ball insert?