More nice digs at my productive TOC dump

[Plumbata]

I went out digging for the first time in a while earlier today, and figured that the TOC spot found this January would be ready to hit. I had excavated a rather large cavern in the dump and it had caved in soon thereafter, but I wanted the abundant rains to continue settling and collapsing the unstable mess I had left behind. I got in behind a big fallen tree root clump and started attacking the layers. 4.5 hours later here's what I left with:

Note the 4 Weyman's snuff jars and the gallon Macomb jug. So far I've gotten 6 snuff jars and 10 intact jugs, and there are many many more to be had in here. I know this because I saw them at the end of a little tunnel I made today that requires expansion before retrieving more of the good stuff, and the juicy layer was getting damn thick as I kept on trenching in that direction. all 4 druggists came out of that zone too.

These guys made my day. I love the "Wheel" on the Wheeler bottles. 1 6 ounce I needed, and 2 4 ounce Wheelers of a different and presumably newer style that I have never heard or or seen a shard from before. The ones in the style of the 6 ouncer are quite tough as it is, so finding another variety was really sweet. The last druggist is a 4 ouncer I think I need, not positive though.

Also got 3 hutches! A dig in this dump isn't complete unless you go home with at least one hutch. 2 are common "The City Bottling Co. Peoria, ILL" examples, and I got another scarce cylindrical Singer hutch. Good times.

Crier of a local patent med. "Dr. Reeder's syrup of tar and wild cherry bark etc." My hands knew precisely what it was as I grabbed the neck from the darkness, and then my eyes noticed the caved-in side panel. What a pain in my arse.

As you can see I got a decent number of embossed non-locals too, but compared to my precious Peoria BIMs they are crap. [8D]

Plan to go back there quite soon to do a more involved dig with my father, perhaps on the 5th or 6th, so hopefully we will have some goods to share with y'all shortly.

Good luck and happy digging people! []

 

[pyshodoodle]

If they were all good, none of them would be good... just remember that!

Looks like a fun day!

 

[cobaltbot]

I was gonna say Boy did you have fun! but Kate beat me to it. Common or not ya gotta love a tombstone hutch. Lets see more pics of the cups, key, bottle above the key and the flat one second from right please! Nothing like having a stand by dump like that to be digging in.

 

[epackage]

Nice gets Plumb, you have to love getting decent stoneware and bottles at such a good clip, I look forward to more pics from this site. It was to long between this post and the last one from this dig site...

 

[RICKJJ59W]

Nuttin like a crap load of dirty bottles[]

 

[madman]

GREAT FINDS!

 

[myersdiggers1998]

I LOVE DIGGING STONEWARE .Good digs.

 

[Dugout]

Can't wait to see what the weekend dig brings you!

 

[tftfan]

Cool diggins . Nice variety. Hope we see more pics.[]

 

[Plumbata]

Thanks for the kind words people!

Steve - I don't know what the "2nd from right" bottle is that you referred to, but here are the others. A Wilson MFG. Co. Peoria, ILL" flavoring extract, the key (I save copper and brass for scrap, so when I grabbed the wire I was rather surprised to find the key attached to it), and one of the cups. I have over 30 of these guys and I only find them in TOC-1910s deposits. I am pretty sure they had a metal cap and held some sort of fancy preserved food, but clearly could be used as little cups when empty. Also is a neat jar, "Wilson's Pure Food Products Peoria, ILL" which is the smaller of the 2 sizes they used. Most of the time they are cracked or have flakes popped out because of the crude manufacturing and imperfect annealing process, but this one turned out nice.

The hutches. Although the "City" hutches look like tombstones they are private mold bottles lacking slugplates. The Singer turned out quite nice.

My precious druggists []. The large Wheeler was loaded with turpentine gunk, so I sprayed inside with carb and choke cleaner, let it sit for 30 minutes, dumped the crap out, then sprayed a little more in and added coarse sand to scrub the remaining residue. Not perfect but it is way better now. I found a smaller Wheeler last time out too. I really like these guys.

And check out this wild hutch I dug last time digging here. I was NOT expecting a Texas bottle to pop out in Peoria. Cursory research indicates it is probably a 30-40 dollar bottle, so it will be sold sooner or later.