New Spot, New Luck, New Bottles

[JohnN]

The past few weeks, I've been cleaning up years worth of old leaves on my property. I happened to find part of a Rubsam & Horrmann bottle sticking up and it turned out to be whole. I kept digging, and I have found a few whole bottles, and a lot of shards. I didn't find anything of value, but these are some nice bottles none the less. If you want close up pictures of anything, let me know. The amber crown is actually an applied crown, not tooled.

 

[ACLbottles]

Cool!

 

[JohnN]

I think I'll photograph some of these bottles in natural daylight when it eventually stops raining. They deserve it.

 

[myersdiggers1998]

Nice ink !

 

[2find4me]

Nice!!! Finally someone took digging pictures with bottles still in the dirt!The 2 Dr. Jayne's Bottles with different finishes are sweet!Plus the same Soda with an Aqua and a Green from the same hole!

 

[JohnN]

Nice!!! Finally someone took digging pictures with bottles still in the dirt!The 2 Dr. Jayne's Bottles with different finishes are sweet!Plus the same Soda with an Aqua and a Green from the same hole!

Those 2 Rubsam & Horrmann's are similar, but not quite the same. The only difference I can see is that one is embossed Rubsam & Horrmann Brewing Co and the other is embossed Rubsam & Horrmann Brewg Co. The one with Brewing spelled out is marked 573 on the base, the other is marked KH-1906. I wonder if that means it was made in 1906?

 

[JohnN]

Minor Blood Loss for minor additions

I went out digging again today, and made a few discoveries. Unfortunately, I also cut my finger open. I was wiping off a bottle while still in the ground, and ended up slicing my finger open on the bottom of a milk bottle. I came back to the house, got a band-aid, and went back out. I finished digging up the bottle, and of course it was an ABM slick soda/beer with the crown top busted off. Aside from that, I found another amber ink, 2 medicines, and something with a cap and possibly original contents. I'll post pictures later tonight.

 

[Dugout]

Re: Minor Blood Loss for minor additions

I like the delicate color of the brown ink and the other. Keep digging!

 

[JohnN]

Re: Minor Blood Loss for minor additions

Here's pictures of today's finds. I forgot to mention that I also found a horseshoe. The broken piece in the pictures is what I sliced my finger on. What looks like a chip on the ink is actually from the manufacturing process, I think. It feels too smooth to be a chip.

 

[JohnN]

Re: Minor Blood Loss for minor additions

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