Wheelah23
Well-Known Member
With school starting on Tuesday, I am trying to get in some last minute digging... [
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I went digging today with Rob, who is apparently a good luck charm! I haven't found any good locals in the past few digs, so I was getting a little discouraged. But lo and behold, when I dug with him, a local blob popped out that I didn't have! It's a nice O. Kanouse blob from Montclair. Orlin Kanouse's the name, bottling's his game... [] Probably related to the Kanouse brothers in Oakland, but that's for another discussion. He was in business from 1890 to 1895, according to Tod's directory listings.
I got excited about this bottle before I even dug it, because it came out base first, and I could tell it was a blob because it had Karl Hutter on it. I got even more excited as more of it got revealed, and I could see it had TBNTBS on the back, in the configuration peculiar to the late 1880's, early 1890's blobs. Then my heart skipped a beat when I saw the embossing! It's not a particularly rare bottle, I think, but it's certainly a nice one, with the applied blob and strange, crude swirls in the glass. I knew it was mint when I dug it, because it came out of the rusty wet "bottle layer". Sure enough, I cleaned it off at home, and it's got no damage or stain! Can't ask for much more. Except that it's colored, or has a picture embossed... [8D] Anyway, I was very happy with it. The embossing's a tad weaker than the post 1895 bottles, because there were usually no mold vent marks used before then...
]I went digging today with Rob, who is apparently a good luck charm! I haven't found any good locals in the past few digs, so I was getting a little discouraged. But lo and behold, when I dug with him, a local blob popped out that I didn't have! It's a nice O. Kanouse blob from Montclair. Orlin Kanouse's the name, bottling's his game... [
] Probably related to the Kanouse brothers in Oakland, but that's for another discussion. He was in business from 1890 to 1895, according to Tod's directory listings.I got excited about this bottle before I even dug it, because it came out base first, and I could tell it was a blob because it had Karl Hutter on it. I got even more excited as more of it got revealed, and I could see it had TBNTBS on the back, in the configuration peculiar to the late 1880's, early 1890's blobs. Then my heart skipped a beat when I saw the embossing! It's not a particularly rare bottle, I think, but it's certainly a nice one, with the applied blob and strange, crude swirls in the glass. I knew it was mint when I dug it, because it came out of the rusty wet "bottle layer". Sure enough, I cleaned it off at home, and it's got no damage or stain! Can't ask for much more. Except that it's colored, or has a picture embossed... [8D] Anyway, I was very happy with it. The embossing's a tad weaker than the post 1895 bottles, because there were usually no mold vent marks used before then...
