Historic flooding, one man’s trash

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We’ve had some major flooding here in St Louis, and I was excited to get out to a local dump, but found it had already been hit by another digger post-flood. The Christmas Coke was hidden away under the brush, and the rest were discards from the other diggers. Even managed to find a doorknob for my bathroom. If you recognize these, we should dig together sometime, I’m just down the road.
The Mum deodorant is my prize find though, even above the Coke, not only because I found the lid ten feet from the jar, but because of what I was able to learn from it. Fascinating look into late 19th-early 20th Century Marketing. 20https://baybottles.com/2021/01/08/m-u-m-mfg-co-philadelphia-pa/
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Very nice
We’ve had some major flooding here in St Louis, and I was excited to get out to a local dump, but found it had already been hit by another digger post-flood. The Christmas Coke was hidden away under the brush, and the rest were discards from the other diggers. Even managed to find a doorknob for my bathroom. If you recognize these, we should dig together sometime, I’m just down the road.
The Mum deodorant is my prize find though, even above the Coke, not only because I found the lid ten feet from the jar, but because of what I was able to learn from it. Fascinating look into late 19th-early 20th Century Marketing. 20https://baybottles.com/2021/01/08/m-u-m-mfg-co-philadelphia-pa/
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We’ve had some major flooding here in St Louis, and I was excited to get out to a local dump, but found it had already been hit by another digger post-flood. The Christmas Coke was hidden away under the brush, and the rest were discards from the other diggers. Even managed to find a doorknob for my bathroom. If you recognize these, we should dig together sometime, I’m just down the road.
The Mum deodorant is my prize find though, even above the Coke, not only because I found the lid ten feet from the jar, but because of what I was able to learn from it. Fascinating look into late 19th-early 20th Century Marketing. 20https://baybottles.com/2021/01/08/m-u-m-mfg-co-philadelphia-pa/
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Just found my own Mum bottom! Perfect condition! I was sea glassing and it was wedged under a rock!!!
 

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