Found a nice bottle dump today.

[hemihampton]

"There also are numerous cans that still have the painted labels on them" And What kind of cans were these? LEON.

 

[LisaTammy]

LOL I was wondering if you'd be asking that Leon. Bear I have pulled out those scuff Kote shoe polish bottles still filled with polish. So far I have black, two whites, and a blue. Was yours that clean when you found it? Love the little dairy bottle and the Paul's. Lucky day for Bears.Lisa

 

[Robby Raccoon]

ACL, that's awesome. I love how far it came.
Sunrunner, I know what to look for. I just have a limited time period to find. Almost everything was broken, beer unembossed, or rust.
Hemi, I brought back one today that is intact. The others look 'alright', but when you flip them over the other half is rusted out. Oil and gas stuff--the one I brought back is probably pretty new compared to the others, as it is intact; it's a fire starter. I'll show photos when everything dries. Also found a small advertisement(?) piece.
Miss Tammy, those things are cute. Mine was capless, so all the contents were gone but had dirt in it. I use a toothbrush to get inside the bottles to clean 'em. I found two more Paul's--one shattered, one missing the neck so I left them. And, yet another Farr View--but not so pretty. You'll see later. Yes, it is a very lucky--last night I thought, and was amused, that a bottle dump was a nice blessing from God--day for bears.

 

[RES1CUE]

Nice finds! I really love the ford piece as I'm a ford guy. The more you dig the more pauls drinks you will find, they are common in our area and are late fifties and reused well into the 60's. Let me know what kind of beer cans you found, I might be interested!

 

[Robby Raccoon]

Res1cue, I love Ford company too--especially the style in general of their trucks. Those and Chevys-- and the Paul's company but rarely find anything intact. Ever see the really old Paul's? The green one is the older variation--made by Root in 1922. The next is the 1930 version, given to me by my neighbor who was gonna throw it out. In the '40s they finally put "Property of Coca-Cola Bottling Co." on them. Then you saw my newest version. The green one was one of the first bottles I ever found.

 

[Robby Raccoon]

Today I went back, found two cool-looking bleach bottles and a broken O-So good bottle (I have an identical intact, but with worse label.) I love the O-So brand, as Oso is Bear in Spanish and, well, I'm a Bear. Also a broken Paul's bottle, and some other interesting pieces of sadly busted bottles--pulled out what would probably have been a pretty cool Bubble Up sodie-pop. Only found one piece. I found this little advertising piece--damaged while cleaning. The thing popped off, but was easily Gorilla-glued back on (technically it was still attached; just, they wrapped it around the metal object and the end broke where it had cracked, now once more sealed safely.) It's pretty neat, with the truck and building on it-- My favorite find of the day. It says on the truck, "FOUNDRY / TRUCKERS" then at the heel, "TRUMAN DEN" and on the back, "FOUNDRY TRUCKERS / TRUCK CRANE & BULLDOZER SERVICE / FILL SAND & GRAVEL PHONE 31-512 // 709 W BROADWAY MUSKEGON, MICH."
I left the woods with a pack full of stuff, and bugs chasing my tail, then headed out across the road and down a-ways to another section that was forested where I discovered wrecked cement blocks and thought, There's gotta be a house near here somewhere; these aren't something you'd carry far. Sure enough, I found a house's foundation. The area was well-used untill the '70s, shown by the bottles and cans left over. I found a toy truck's wheel--older one-- and what would have been a gorgeous porcelain dish that had flower-designs on the inside and out glazed in a myriad of colors--shattered. The oldest bottle I could identify had a date code for 1959.
Later I hit the woods near my house where I had recently found a wrecked antique beer bottle--embossed-- and a decimated Patent November 3(0?) 185(8?) jar. I found attached to a random wire that led nowhere an insulator(?) or something. Then I hit-up the woods by a Church where I found a beer can lodged--only recently uncovered again-- in the bank of a creek which I happily pulled out to see the colors were still good.

 

[Robby Raccoon]

More pictures! Here's for you, Leon.

 

[Robby Raccoon]

Also for Leon: It's the older-style top. Although I'm sure this is pretty new, still older than I. Heh.

 

[Robby Raccoon]

More photos, the Roman Bleach bottles.

 

[Robby Raccoon]

Another Farr View Dairy bottle. Although it's not beside me, I think it had '56 as a date-code.