Friday - An absolute heartbreaker, but I'll make do

[Yooper14]

These are my finds from Friday. I'm finally in an exciting part of the dump. Being an old boarding school dump, I find TONS of food jars and lipsticks and shoe polish and average inks, but not much else.
But this dump seam I'm in has some older stuff, and different.
Well, I found a soda way in the base layer, buried real solid in the clay. It turns out to be a slug-plate local soda, one I'd never seen. I had found one other (much bigger) busted in an old house I was sifting. I was really excited, but I looked down and saw the lip lying 3 inches from the neck. I was devastated. I thought I had done it. But on closer examination, I see there's rust and stains inside the break, which would not be the case if I had just broke it. Anyhow, I glued it back on...I'm still gonna display it!

The other finds are. Left to right:
A little "Great Seal" flask. I have a number of them, but there are so many varieties it's fun to collect.
A "Lantern Candy" without the top or bottom (see "What is it" post)
A larger Cheseborough Vaseline than I normally find
My first clay Budda!
A "Hand Med Co Philadelphia" - new to me
A little "HindsHoney and Almond" sampler. I like these samplers, cause they're embossed on all sides.
A brass gas fixture - I have quite an assorted collection of these valves. Very ornate
The slug-plate soda
An eyeglass lens and a little brass frame
A great shoe polish, caled "gilt dressing" - in researching this, I think it was capsoda who had one on herer a while back....
A half-globe of glass. Was this a magnifier? It's not busted
A five cent universal store milk
An ink (I think) with the glass stopper totally welded to it
And a many-sided aqua carbona. I hear these carbonas are common?

 

[Yooper14]

Here's a close up of the soda. I like it especialy since it says it's not for sale! Guess I could never sell it, eh?

 

[Yooper14]

And here's a closer lok at the ladies shoe polish. Neat bottle!
Thanks you all for looking. I'm planning to go out today in just a few minutes. I'll try to get some dump pictures this time

 

[capsoda]

Hey Tim, Great lookin finds. Steve Gurley {CaretakerMaine}had the Gilt Edge bottle. The globe glass thing is a watch crystal. Cool candy too.

 

[Jim]

Nice finds, Tim. The shoe polish is a beauty. Slug sodas are always a treat as well, especially a rare one. Jim

 

[BOTLDGR03]

Sweet dig!!! Never dug a whole candy container before. Those brass and copper frames are fun to find. I have found lots of those. Some are very ornate. Found one Friday that had the stick pin still attached. The slugplate still looks good even after a glue job. Keep digging that dump. Probably plenty of coins being a school dump. Robert

 

[Yooper14]

Ive been on a coin drought, but there are some in there. I've found a couple half dollars and a pocketfull of pennies. I've been putting the dirt aside that I want to sift later for marbles, pennies, etc.
It's been a good dump
Tim

 

[dirtflicker]

Now those are some SWEET DIGS! Love that Shoe Polish...very ornate.

DF