"Good luck Lauren", "Mayor Tom" and the Holy Grail

[RedGinger]

Joe is going to be so happy to hear all of your replies. He's tickled pink about this bottle. I don't think I'd be brave enough to crawl under an old house like that. I guess it's a guy thing! The color is just beautiful. I'll try to get a picture in the daylight. I've googled the bottle, but can't find anything.
Yeah Kate, I would love to go back there. Joe still has to get underneath the front of the porch. I dug a whole that seemed pretty soft after probing. That is where I found the marble and some fragments. It got ashy, but then the guys were so caught up in the bottle, I didn't have any help to dig the rest out. Should I have kept going? I could not find any walls, and didn't know if this was the privy or not. They think there might have been a house there before that burned down, but I'm not sure. Locating a privy is hard. I remembered Rick's video of him probing, and tried to use that technique. I would like to probe it again. I'm so sore today, but I just can never stop digging!

 

[RedGinger]

The weird thing about downtown here is that you can just dig in a yard and find a bottle, or fragments. I wonder if that is because they were filled in or what.

 

[RedGinger]

Got some good pics of the bottle that show its true teal color. I'll have Joe sort through them later. Had a harder time with the marble. It is white with some purple lines around it. A good find for me!

 

[cyberdigger]

What a beautiful bottle... dang!! Congrats!!! Hope you guys beat the wrecking ball and find others down there!!

 

[RedGinger]

Thanks Charlie. I'll take some pics and video of the place for you all.

 

[RedGinger]

I sure hope the boys want to go again after work today!

 

[Oldtimer]

Wow! I'm STOKED for you guys! That is one you'll remember for the duration! Outstanding! Now, go back there and worm around under every part of that place!

 

[glass man]

Oh wow! That is beautiful!!! I once crawled under the oldest building here in my town. The building was fixing to be torn down.[though pre civil war and was part of a female academy in the 1850s,folks care little bout history round here] Any way i found some pieces of bottles ,one a broke ss coke. ! crawled to the porch and saw what looked like a stomp of a tree that may have been cut down in building. I did not even check it out.Well I knew the guy that tore the small building down and what I thought was a stomp was a gallon brown cider crock from st. louis,that had gotten buried upside down ,with only the bottom showing! Made me sick and he would not sell to me. Moral:check it all out! GREAT FIND YALL AND A COLOR I HOPE TO GET SOMEDAY! JAMIE

 

[RedGinger]

Thanks guys. We are anxious to get back there. I'm proud of Joe for finding it.

 

[GACDIG]

Love the Design, great it made it to the top.[]