Bixby Bill
Well-Known Member
I finally got out to do some digging for the first time this year. I went back to an old town dump in my area that I`ve dug off and on for the last 20 years, and it has given up some nice bottles older than it`s late 1800`s age. Before this find, the best bottles to come out of there are some nice scarce Saratogas, a couple half-pint Cohansey jars, an amber Willington berry bottle with a damaged top, and several colored Bixbys, including 2 cobalt ones. That`s not to mention the hundreds of Hood`s Sarsaparillas, Fletcher`s Castorias, and all the other bottles that when I see just a portion of one in the hole, I instantly know what it is, usually.
I arrived there early, and after little more than an hour of digging out one of the many holes that are there, and listening to my muscles complain that they aren`t used to doing this much work after taking it easy all winter, I got the hole down to some undug layers. This dump has always been good with producing bottles, and it didn`t take long to get a pile of commons started. Here`s a picture of what the hole looked like by noontime, with a nice pile of bottles to the right of the hole. The best one so far was a midget Crowleytown Mason with half the threads broken off and no lid, but still a keeper.
I arrived there early, and after little more than an hour of digging out one of the many holes that are there, and listening to my muscles complain that they aren`t used to doing this much work after taking it easy all winter, I got the hole down to some undug layers. This dump has always been good with producing bottles, and it didn`t take long to get a pile of commons started. Here`s a picture of what the hole looked like by noontime, with a nice pile of bottles to the right of the hole. The best one so far was a midget Crowleytown Mason with half the threads broken off and no lid, but still a keeper.
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