Hello everybody!
I have lurked on this forum for some time, and have finally signed up and gotten ready to start sharing. Somewhere back along the way during my ignorant youth, I decided at some point that bottles were common in the various dumps and digs in my city, and I lost prime years in my hometown to development and the local vultures. A couple of years ago, while watching my buddy dig bottle after bottle out of a cistern exposed in the scariest sidewall I had ever seen, I noticed a common aqua ground lip Masons patent 1858 canning jar roll out and to a safe distance. I picked up this common bottle, took it home and washed it, placed it on my windowsill, and became obsessed with expanding its' family with new finds. I was suddenly in love with glass, and I went forth into my city armed mainly with big ideas, lessons learned from lots of mistakes (this is a continuing process), and a desire for anything cool and/or local.
Most of my digs have been small ones so far, and so my successes were few and meager. My windowsill grew with the TOC flotsam of Denver, Colorado. I was thrilled by every common Hutchinson soda.
I wanted to post some pictures of a few of my finds at my most recent dig, at which I finally scored a piece of glass that will not make the local bottle collectors puke when they see it in my collection! ha ha!
I was digging with a buddy in a local seam which was a trash pit we found through stalking, research, and sheer bravery when we started finding broken Hutch sodas and slick meds. The best is the slug pate embossed pint flask from "The Waldorf SAN FRANCISCO AND LOS ANGELES. I found this as I was clearing a thin layer of black cinders from the top layer of the trash pit, and then I had the pleasure of bathing in the glory of the cool sand and the sweet bottle. It is my first embossed flask, and I found The Waldorf in the 1909 S.F. city directory. The neck shows lots of tooling, and I believe the ground lip has been refired to make it smooth. Hopefully some of the membership can refine my description and vocabulary for me.
I also got a small sample whiskey with an embossed seal "RG&CO", and I think it is for Old Savannah Whiskey or some such nonsense. I also found a Hires Bros. Hutch from Chicago which was something different, and a few of the super common Denver Hutch sodas. I wrapped things up with a Pepto-Mangan ''Gude which I did not picture, a Cali Fig Syrup, and a neat little consumption cure for "Dr. King's New Discovery". It was a mixture of morphine and chloroform. At that point I gave thanks for having enough health just to dig these derned bottles. Everything is tooled lip in this collection. There are obviously no pontils or applied lip stuff in this collection.
I also threw in a picture of a late acl soda that I liked- it is a Big Chief 12oz. from Norton, Kansas. Cool!
I appreciate all of the stories I have gotten to read on this forum, and hopefully others can enjoy these pictures. I am really happy about and proud of the flask. That is the find of the month for me.
plehbah
I have lurked on this forum for some time, and have finally signed up and gotten ready to start sharing. Somewhere back along the way during my ignorant youth, I decided at some point that bottles were common in the various dumps and digs in my city, and I lost prime years in my hometown to development and the local vultures. A couple of years ago, while watching my buddy dig bottle after bottle out of a cistern exposed in the scariest sidewall I had ever seen, I noticed a common aqua ground lip Masons patent 1858 canning jar roll out and to a safe distance. I picked up this common bottle, took it home and washed it, placed it on my windowsill, and became obsessed with expanding its' family with new finds. I was suddenly in love with glass, and I went forth into my city armed mainly with big ideas, lessons learned from lots of mistakes (this is a continuing process), and a desire for anything cool and/or local.
Most of my digs have been small ones so far, and so my successes were few and meager. My windowsill grew with the TOC flotsam of Denver, Colorado. I was thrilled by every common Hutchinson soda.
I wanted to post some pictures of a few of my finds at my most recent dig, at which I finally scored a piece of glass that will not make the local bottle collectors puke when they see it in my collection! ha ha!
I was digging with a buddy in a local seam which was a trash pit we found through stalking, research, and sheer bravery when we started finding broken Hutch sodas and slick meds. The best is the slug pate embossed pint flask from "The Waldorf SAN FRANCISCO AND LOS ANGELES. I found this as I was clearing a thin layer of black cinders from the top layer of the trash pit, and then I had the pleasure of bathing in the glory of the cool sand and the sweet bottle. It is my first embossed flask, and I found The Waldorf in the 1909 S.F. city directory. The neck shows lots of tooling, and I believe the ground lip has been refired to make it smooth. Hopefully some of the membership can refine my description and vocabulary for me.
I also got a small sample whiskey with an embossed seal "RG&CO", and I think it is for Old Savannah Whiskey or some such nonsense. I also found a Hires Bros. Hutch from Chicago which was something different, and a few of the super common Denver Hutch sodas. I wrapped things up with a Pepto-Mangan ''Gude which I did not picture, a Cali Fig Syrup, and a neat little consumption cure for "Dr. King's New Discovery". It was a mixture of morphine and chloroform. At that point I gave thanks for having enough health just to dig these derned bottles. Everything is tooled lip in this collection. There are obviously no pontils or applied lip stuff in this collection.
I also threw in a picture of a late acl soda that I liked- it is a Big Chief 12oz. from Norton, Kansas. Cool!
I appreciate all of the stories I have gotten to read on this forum, and hopefully others can enjoy these pictures. I am really happy about and proud of the flask. That is the find of the month for me.
plehbah
