New Bottle Finds.

[hemihampton]

They tore down a couple of old house near my work so I checked them out after work. As usual, way in the back Yard where they tore out the Garage Concrete Floor I find a Bottle. A Common West Side Brewery Blob top. totally intact without a chip or crack or any damage, & this is after a bulldozer or Backhoe plowed through there busting up Concrete & removing it. The houses in this area seem to be around 1910+ & I usually find Crown Tops in this area but every once in awhile a Blob & Hutch. The next house nothing in back but where crawlspace or foundation or basement hole is, like 30 feet by 30 feet size hole maybe 5 or 6 feet deep I look across the hole & see in wall near top what looks like a small Milk Bottle. I walk around to other side & sure enough pull out a Milk Bottle. One I never seen before. Troy Milk Co? Not listed in my Michigan Milk Book but it is from Detroit. Wonder if rare? LEON.

 

[hemihampton]

close up.

 

[UnderMiner]

That blob-top bottle seems to coincide with the time period of the homes in the area. Slug-plate blob-tops typically date to 1900-1910's or so. Good finds.

 

[UncleBruce]

Did you even get dirty? Nice finds.

 

[hemihampton]

Did you even get dirty? Nice finds.

No but it was muddy so my shoes got dirty.

 

[GRACE ABOUND]

Great Finds ; You Showed Us Who Cannot Dig For Some Reasons ,Can Still Find Great Treasures Simply By Seeking, Looking. And Watching .We Can Find . And Still Get The Feeling We All Love, .Great Bottles, Great Story .Thanks For Both . Grace Abounds

 

[Bohdan]

Great Finds ; You Showed Us Who Cannot Dig For Some Reasons ,Can Still Find Great Treasures Simply By Seeking, Looking. And Watching .We Can Find . And Still Get The Feeling We All Love, .Great Bottles, Great Story .Thanks For Both . Grace Abounds

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[hemihampton]

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I know what he meant. LEON.

 

[Len]

Hi Hemihampton,

True to your handle, you are certainly a supercharged digger! If ever you go missing (Lord forbid) I'm sure you'll be found in a crawl space with the holy grail of Detroit/Midwest area bottle searchers in one hand and a note in the other. We can all speculate what it might say ( No, I'm not going to do the m.c. fill-in the bubble.), I'll guess maybe something like-"Clean this and bury me with it." For our newer diggers, Hemi is very, very, good at what he does for a very, very, l-o-n-g time. I'm sure safety has never been neglected in his dig plan...

And he appreciates the classic muscle cars!

 

[Bohdan]

I know what he meant. LEON.

Good for you.