JOETHECROW
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Alright,....Remarkable things happen now and again. Tom, me, and now Laur are just like most....We try to apply our logic and some luck, mixed with a dash of research now and then to find a fix for our (and you all's) obsession....Antique bottles. Well after a trying weekend of unexpected major home repairs, late Monday, Tom (Penn Digger) borrowed the probe to check out a rental property of a mutual friend....a good thing, permission....He ran out of daylight and time, so tonight after work he called me to come check out this backyard. We scoped around,...Laur found some tantalizing fragments right on the surface and we dug a couple of test holes, but no obvious privy...While Tom and Lauren dug, I went to check out a run down and condemned house adjacent to the yard we were in...I found a copper oval handeled kettle (for firewood) some antique baskets, up in an overhead storage cubby off the porch, there was even a bushel basket of crowntop embossed beers....and a peanutbutter style crock.Then I decided to crawl under this house....I looked in the crawl hole and thought I could see a med/chemist style bottle under there....I went up top and pryed off some porch boards where Mayor Tom had went through the rotten wood....Finally I walked to my truck and grabbed a flashlight. OMG....THE bottle Tom and I had only heard about and I've seen the only other known example, just 7 years ago. Before then I didn't even know such a local druggist existed. Tom and I are working towards a mutual project with the historic society....A book that was originally entitled "Bottles and Breweries of Bradford", but the concept has been expanded to include Drugstores and maybe local Dairys....Anyhow, Tom had obtaind permission to photograph the one known example of this druggist....Now we don't need to![][][]. Sorry for the big lead up but here it is.
Edited for my hurried typing...
Edited for my hurried typing...