Springtime at the dump... and a productive day

[timeandabottle]

Nice digs! I was looking up SOLD items on e-bay last night looking for a particualar jar and you're right, your jar is a great find. Hope you uncover a lid for it. You had a great day-Sweeeeet!!!

 

[old.s.bottles]

Let us know what you find in the buckets

 

[surfaceone]

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.

Hey Connor,

Best title of the Spring, sez me. Where else, but here, would "Springtime at the Dump" be a hit tune. Great looking site of digging possibility, and proven results.

May you find no more dead guys.

I still like that 3 Stage. I've been out of round my entire life, and am still rolling.

That Cohansey is a little doozy, too.

Let the digging bon temps rouler!

 

[Wheelah23]

Productive day pt. 2

Went over to the guy's house, and he insisted I take EVERYTHING... [][][] Paid $75 for my share, and my partner Tom paid $25 for his... He didn't really want to though, so I will pay him back later probably... I think I should be able to make my monies back eventually. There's some good stuff mixed with the crap.

Long story short, 75% of the stuff is junky slicks... They are going on a one way trip to the big glass heap in the sky.

 

[Wheelah23]

RE: Productive day pt. 2

Here are the keepers. Some common embossed stuff, some labeled stuff, and the best find: a boxed and labeled large size Kodak bottle. I will post better pictures of this stuff once it's cleaned off, but for now, I'm lazy.

 

[Wheelah23]

RE: Productive day pt. 2

Got a nice William L. Johnson med from Montclair.

 

[Wheelah23]

RE: Productive day pt. 2

Also got two nice Montclair Greasons that made the whole trip worth it. I've never seen these before at all, and underneath 100 years of grime, I'm pretty sure they're mint. This quart blob has its original Putnam closure attached. Might post pictures once they're cleaned up better.

 

[Wheelah23]

RE: Productive day pt. 2

The base has a very strange smooth indentation. Maybe it hit a table corner when it was made?

 

[Wheelah23]

RE: Productive day pt. 2

Quart crown from the same mold. The embossing on these is very "big"... I don't know why, it just looks very strange to me. This has the original crown cap on it, which looks nothing like today's caps!

 

[Wheelah23]

RE: Productive day pt. 2

Then I went over to the house that yielded the umbrella inks, and dug for a while in the anomalous area... Tom and I couldn't make sense of it, but there's definitely trash buried there a few feet down. There's a couple inches of ash too, with all sorts of stuff mixed in... Imagine my surprise, though, when bottles started appearing! I found some slicks, broken embossed meds, a broken Seitz squat, LOTS of broken pottery, and the best thing: two examples of a D. H. Baldwin druggist from Montclair which I'd never seen before. I suspect it's early 1890's. Great condition, just weakly embossed... The homeowners were extremely kind and allowed me to leave the hole open, so I'll dug some more next weekend... Hopefully some more whole stuff comes out!