pontil dug and its broken

[gdog68]

Went digging in my 1890s to 1950s dump on the river today found alot of broken glass couple ink wells, gregory farms laboratories white hall illinois bottle and some other 1930s 20s bottles but got really excited when just the but of this bottle was sticking out, pulled it out and it's broken. Looks like a cornucopia pontil flask, oddly this was the only fragment in that area. Here are the pictures of my finds today.

 

[hemihampton]

Thats a real bummer, I know the feeling. LEON.

 

[gdog68]

You win some you lose some

 

[willong]

All those ink bottles! Do you suppose that you are digging a former school ground, or some site where a lot of bookkeeping was conducted?

 

[gdog68]

Not sure on what this dump was from but I my guess it is probably a combination of the towns locals just throwing their garbage there since the late 1890s and earlier because i found a broken ponitl vase to the 1950s because I find alot of kitchen stuff, some old cans pottery, broken depression glass. The artifacts layer is deep and spans a length of 25 yards and I would say the good majority of items are from the 1920s to 40s. The ink bottles where all found in the same pocket where I dug and they are from the 20s to 40s. Once it warms up I will 100 percent dive the water because a good 40 percent of the dump is eroded into the river.

 

[Johnny M]

Went digging in my 1890s to 1950s dump on the river today found alot of broken glass couple ink wells, gregory farms laboratories white hall illinois bottle and some other 1930s 20s bottles but got really excited when just the but of this bottle was sticking out, pulled it out and it's broken. Looks like a cornucopia pontil flask, oddly this was the only fragment in that area. Here are the pictures of my finds today. View attachment 243779View attachment 243780View attachment 243781View attachment 243782

Could be a late throw as they say or actually a piece found elsewhere and finally tossed out with the other trash at the time everything else was getting dumped there. Maybe somebody found it in a garden in the 30's and then tossed it out after their curiousity was satisfied. There are a lot of possible scenarios . Could have even been thrown out by itself in the 1840s by a wandering drunk who imbibed it roaming in the scrub and frost heaved into the dump later piled over it. I remember digging an 1880's dump and suddenly popped out an early CT made lafayette flask variant from the 1820's. Of course it was like G1-84a super rare mold. I got about 60% of it. Obviously or probably busted in the house that dumped it in the 1880's perhaps after it had been kept as a keepsake in the home after Lafayettes visit and eventually clumsily broken during housekeeping. It was pressed in a pocket of drugstore bottles,etc all from the late 1880's so it was dumped with them.I have seen lots of late throw wholes and frags in dumps over the years. Cool find though and yes it was a cornucopia flask and a darn old one too! Johnny M.