BOTLDGR03
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Long time, no type. Finally got some of my computer problems fixed and of course some free time which has been almost non-existing. Got out to my favorite creek after about a two inch rainfall. I went to a super thin layer I've been working the past few times out. You know, the kind of place that gives you just enough to go back to. I have found several pieces of a local medicine I wan't real bad. COHEN'S BRITISH COUGH BALSAM / WAXAHACHIE, TEX. Monday I dug a whole front panel and a shoulder to top piece. The pieces are getting bigger and hopefully I will find a whole one to share with you soon. I did find a nice local drugstore, and a HOYT'S NICKEL COLOGNE. The only other bottles I found at this spot were 3 unembossed drugstores. The local drugstore is / W.C. LOMAX DRUG CO. / NORTH SIDE SQUARE / WAXAHACHIE, TEX. After this spot, I decided to walk the creek to see what I could find just laying around. I found a 1941 debossed Dr. Pepper. Then I found a 50's ACL O-SO GRAPE. A little farther and I spot a soda laying on the bottom in about a foot of water. I picked it up and to my amazement was holding a rare straight sided Coke bottle. I found 2 last year which I sold one for $500 and the other for $588. It was full of green creek film, but cleaned up quite nicely. It is an ABM shoulder script with a slugplate that says / ELLIS COUNTY BOTTLING WORKS / WAXAHACHIE, TEX. I walked only a little further and found a few insulators and a pretty cool fruit jar lid. It is embossed / J. HUNGERFORD SMITH CO. / ROCHESTER, N.Y. This is a first for me. Anyone have any info on this lid as far as scarcity or value? The tallest bottle is a blown in mold beer I found in the same creek a couple weeks prior. It says / PROPERTY OF / TEXAS BREWING CO. / nice TBC monogram w/ horseshoe / FORT WORTH, TEX. Creeks can pay off, and it's easy and blister free, not that I don't have 10 blisters on my hands right now. HAPPY HUNTING!!!! Rob
