Loaded pit, aint no dirt in there

[woody]

What is the embossing on the groove ring jar???

 

[cadburys]

HOLY SMOKE!

Seeing pictures like that make me want to give up digging all together.
Last week we dug down 7 ft (hitting water at 6+) and all we found worth taking home was this.

 

[daeldred]

Tons of bottles...I love it!!

That is a cool local druggist bottle. First time I've seen one with scissors. I wonder if it was a barber shop too?

 

[capsoda]

Good greaf Doug. How many keepers were in the lot. Great dig pictures.

 

[ajohn]

Wow! Calendar pictures!

 

[citydigger]

Looks like someone dumped their entire antique botte collection in that pit. I don't think I have seen that many bottle come out of a privy in all my years of digging. They must have had a ton of crap saved up and when they filled in that privy and dug another, they just dump it all in that one! NICE SCORES MAN!

 

[ajohn]

here ya go woody,

 

[RICKJJ59W]

Cool figure baby bottle and dog bottle.What do you think was in the dog bottle?

 

[beendiggin]

Nice haul...the Rau's jar you dug is $50- 75 in the Red Book. The error jar from ajohn (misspelled grove) goes for the same money.
I like the dog bottle and the cut rate druggist....good ones.

 

[appliedlips]

Tique, I would say the best was a very rare qt. blob beer and then a lighter colored Mishler's..

Rick, I have no idea what was in the dog bottle, it looks like your average nickel cologne

daeldred, No barber shop that I am aware of. I have seen a different druggist from another city with scissors too..

Cap, I have no idea how many keepers but alot were junkers and went back in.I'd guess 150 or so, embossed bim's.
I have seen quite a few holes like this in this city. They are really cool when they go about 10 or 15 yrs older at the bottom. The good news is that this was a double and I have a matching stoneliner probed out.I hope they had the same habits.

City, it was a good bunch of bottles for sure but they can have even more. We dug one a couple years ago that had around 1600 bottles in it including 50some Sanford Liver Invigorators & around 100 Grover's dyspepsia cures..It was only 6 or 7 ft. deep..I wish we could hit a pontilled hole like that,I've heard of guys doing it so we can dream.

Paul, thanks for the info on the jar. I thought it was rarer than I dug it but found out differently. You don't see many clear waxsealers even unembossed.