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[Sand88Sand]

Hi all! This is my first post on this forum and I would like to start by saying that I appreciate what I've read so far, and hopefully the advice I get is just as useful. I've had some experience metal detecting, and about 10 years ago or so, I went bottle digging with my grandmother while she was nimble enough. I have started to dig up/clean the area behind my house, and I would like some advice on the finds I've had so far. It seems to me that most of the trash I've encountered is from the 70s at the surface and about 4ft down I've gotten to the middle 50s or earlier. It may be that the pile goes much deeper as the house was built more than 100 years ago. Anyways, enough ranting, here are some pics!!!

 

[flasherr]

Love that Home soda bottle. one thing to watch out for on painted label bottles is you can wipe the paint off real easy. i suggest after digging it let it set a week before you try and clean it up. the paint can get wet for a lack of a better term after sitting in wet dirt for years. Just need to let that paint harden agian so you dont loose the paint. Sometimes you cant help it the paint will just flake off. Barkeepers friend is a good thing to clean painted bottles with. Keep the pictures coming. Since the place is behind your house recycle the metal and make a few bucks while cleaning up

 

[BellwoodBoys]

I see that new brunswick milk from the paulus dairy, Is this dump in new Jersey?

 

[CanadianBoy]

Welcome aboard Nathan, keep the good posts coming, it looks from the pics that your on a bit of a ravine, you might want to start digging at the bottom and work in and up.

That way you could hit the older stuff, although the milks are always a good find.

Happy Digging

 

[creeper71]

here is my personal opinion... I would toss all ACL (PAINTED LABELS) If they are worn badly... the ones that are not worn when you pull them out DO NOT RUB FOR ANY REASON.. LET SET IN SUN FOR A FEW DAYS TO DRY.. Then carefullly clean them off to see how bad they are worn if at all..if pyro (paint) looks good an not crackled I would rinse under water.. Keep all milk bottles that are not chipped or cracked..if embossed ( raised letters in glass ) if not to badly chipped or cracked keep them til you can see how rare they are...

 

[surfaceone]

Hey Nathan,

Welcome to the A-BN, and keep digging.

There is likely date codes on the bottom of the green Cott and the Home Beverages, that might tell you something.

The Cott seems to have pretty intact paint. Your recycling center is gonna be happy to see the old and slick guys.

 

[elmoleaf]

Looks like Leominster or Fitchburg Massachusetts area.
Dig this stuff for fun or sake of cleaning your property, but there's no value in damaged 1960s and 1970s stuff. Plenty of perfect examples exist.
Once you get the new junk recycled, you might get into some good earlier stuff. Good luck.

 

[Sand88Sand]

Thanks for the advice all, if I were wanting to find bottles of value what is worth while, 1950s or earlier? I went to a different dig today, its a good few miles into the woods, so it isnt visited often or at all by other diggers and all the bottles are still on the surface level, and it stretches for a good 100-150 yards.