Springtime at the dump... and a productive day

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Today was a good day. Went to an antique sale thing at 10, and got there in time to see another collector stalk away with a blob... Don't know where it was from, I just have to hope it wasn't a local! Anyway, I did snag 3 blobs and an awesome BIM Montclair milk. The blobs I'll resell, and the milk is staying in my collection. $10 total.

The milk's a nice SCA "F. D. CO." from Montclair. It's not one I'd seen before, and it's in amazing shape.

 

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Blob #1. Frank T. Kolbek from Bound Brook.

 

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Blob #2. Stephen Jones from Coytesville.

 

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Blob #3. John Helfen from Bound Brook.

 

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I'd a given $10 for the milk alone, good deal...

 

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Then I went to the dump for a few hours. The place is beautiful this time of year, with all the greenery and flowers springing up... Couldn't have been a better time to dig.

 

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Then when I was cleaning the finds, I got a call from the homeowners whose privy yielded the umbrella inks... Turns out they were digging a post in the back, and found some pottery nowhere near the privy! So I sped over there to inspect the stuff, and it's some big vase or pasta things, which were broken. But the lids were whole. I dug for a few minutes in that spot, and found 1880's glass shards and a couple marbles. I will be back there tomorrow.

This marble's cool. I'll email somebody to see if it's a good one.

 

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So here's the dump dig's finds...

 

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I thought this was an English looking bottle, but...

 

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...the base is embossed "TOURNADE'S/ KITCHEN/ BOUQUET". Turns out it was a Hoboken company, and the product was some sort of meat sauce... Strange name.