Oct/Nov Privy dig in Upstate NY

[CazDigger]

I don't know, I sure would like the John Mason's, but I collect Saratogas too and even though they are super common, as far as Saratogas go, I am partial to bottles I pull from the dirt myself, so I do like the Clarke & White "C".
This one is a killer pontiled snuff, too bad it is cracked....

 

[Penn Digger]

Awesome, very nice pics! Thanks for sharing.

PD

 

[Dabeel]

Great Post! Hope you get some good picks!

Doug

 

[CazDigger]

Thanks, I hope I get good picks too, but I dig with a great bunch of guys and we don't get all crazy and greedy about who got what. That being said, we all giggle like little kids when we find something good even though we are all middle aged guys - I'm the youngest at 48yrs old!

 

[jpclute]

Mark, Just read your story. Congrats on a great dig.
That Arnold stonie is a nice one! Keep at it!!

Roy T.

 

[CazDigger]

Thanks Roy, did you get out and do any winter digs???

 

[jpclute]

Mark, one more spot to dig in my "winter reserve" spots that I covered with leaves before it really got cold. Does not probe out like a privy but I'll dig it anyways. My other winter privies, and for that matter most of my pits dug in the fall, were unproductive with only scattered pontils in them. The last keepers I found were right after Christmas from a cistern filled in about 1890, & and they were just a pint Victory fruit jar and an amber Shaker Hair restorer. Didn't see the E. Waters picture yesterday. Heck of a hard bottle to find in color. What do you think, Mark, are you going to go out and pound thru frost for more?

 

[CazDigger]

Nah, no digging thru the snow and frost for me this year. I'll hit again in the spring, if I don't go stir crazy before that!

 

[bottle_head9]

Thanks for posting Mark.I enjoyed your story very much. Excellent finds. []

 

[RED Matthews]

Hello CazDigger, I took note of the fact that you are into SARATOGA bottles. I enjoyed seeing the UTICA mineral waters. I am interested in the E Waters bottles and just about all old bottles. If you have visited my homepage you may have seen the blog I posted on the Half-Leaf Mold Cavity Repair Welds. I know they did a lot of this type of repair at the Saratoga Glass Houses. I have four examples. I also just recently got acquainted with one of the bottles that has two Half-Leaf repaire where one over laps a second one. It is up near Albany so I can't get there until next summer.
Because you indicated your interest in Saratoga bottles, I had to check and see if you had seen these marks on any of them. Thanks, RED Matthews