Not from 2010 but so far it's my only true heartbreaker, a Kinch Ten Pin(misspelled Patterson)....as you can see it's now a drinking glass or vase....
Jim
I feel your pain people. Blade - that was one gorgeous bottle.
Here is mine for 2010. This bottle is extra-ordinarily rare. As far as I can tell, this mineral water has never been seen whole. I believe I have the largest known shard. That is all great but it could have been whole.
I did very little digging this year, and no real heartbreakers came of it. My last real heartbreakers were from late 2008 with our big soda dump dig. We dug pieces of numerous local bottles that had NEVER been reported, or event heard of before. At least a few from my hometown too. While it was sad to not dig a whole one, it was VERY cool to dig pieces of bottles that were yet to be known to the hobby, and I hope to add those pieces to my collection someday, if I ever find them whole....
The plus side of the dig, is we did dig whole/ good specimans of a few other unheard of bottles from nearby towns, and a few very rare pieces from my hometown. I hope to dig another soda shop sometime in my life, because that was the best digging and most interesting digging I have ever done!
Here is a local to us (one town away) rare cure, that I did not know about till I dug it and posted over at Gunther's site, and here...It looks great and you can barely tell, but I glued the neck back on, It was broken in place in amongst a sparse layer of meds that me and Mr. Fred were digging towards the end of the season this year. Every other bottle from this layer was whole and PERFECT!...[] [] (Ain't it usually the way?)