The bottle gods were smiling on me! HOLY GRAIL FOUND

[Wheelah23]

ORIGINAL: epackage

Greasons looks great all together like that and I think the milk glass shaker may have been for sugar due to it's size....good stuff Connor with and "O"[8D]

I thought it would be rude to point out it's "Connor", but a lot of people spell it "Conner" for some reason... I don't know why, because it says "Connor" in my profile... [8|]

I almost forgot this one. Some kind of semi-automatic cobalt screw top chemical thing. It says "KELLOGG AND HITCHCOCK CO./ NEW YORK/ COMPOUND MENTHOL ICE". The color is really so dark it's almost purple. Ideas?

 

[slag pile digger]

Boy Connor, I wish I could upgrade my cracked bottles as quick as you!!! Great finds!!!! Also great pictures of your Greasons!!!! Mike

 

[epackage]

ORIGINAL: Wheelah23

ORIGINAL: epackage

Greasons looks great all together like that and I think the milk glass shaker may have been for sugar due to it's size....good stuff Connor with and "O"[8D]

I thought it would be rude to point out it's "Connor", but a lot of people spell it "Conner" for some reason... I don't know why, because it says "Connor" in my profile... [8|]

I almost forgot this one. Some kind of semi-automatic cobalt screw top chemical thing. It says "KELLOGG AND HITCHCOCK CO./ NEW YORK/ COMPOUND MENTHOL ICE". The color is really so dark it's almost purple. Ideas?

Vicks vapor rub type of item I'm pretty sure..

Connor with an "E" is kinda like Paterson with two "T's"[8D]

 

[creeper71]

ORIGINAL: slag pile digger

Boy Connor, I wish I could upgrade my cracked bottles as quick as you!!! Great finds!!!! Also great pictures of your Greasons!!!! Mike

Boy I wish I could find a dump like conners!! I remember him saying ealier he thought this was pre dug be4..well if this is the junk what was the good stuff???

 

[Wheelah23]

ORIGINAL: epackage

Greasons looks great all together like that and I think the milk glass shaker may have been for sugar due to it's size....good stuff Connor with and "O"[8D]

Guess who was right about it being a salt shaker... W00T W00T! I'd be happy with $30 for this thing...

ORIGINAL: slag pile digger

Boy Connor, I wish I could upgrade my cracked bottles as quick as you!!! Great finds!!!! Also great pictures of your Greasons!!!! Mike

Yeah, funny how that worked out! ...You got any other broken bottles you want to show me? Maybe a flask, or a pontil soda? []

ORIGINAL: creeper71

Boy I wish I could find a dump like conners!! I remember him saying ealier he thought this was pre dug be4..well if this is the junk what was the good stuff???

Some of it was definitely dug before, and the previous diggers re-buried some common local blobs and crowns so that no other diggers stumbled onto the site. I dug them up again, and I'm quite happy with them, common or not. Obviously, though, I've now hit the areas that WEREN'T dug... []

As for finding a dump of your own, well... Sometimes you don't have to. The previous digger gladly gave me the location of this dump, as he's moved on to better things. Privy diggers seem to give away the locations of dumps more freely, as they get better stuff in privies, and have no need of dumps. If you know any local PRIVY diggers, you might as well ask them... I know I got lucky by asking... Interestingly, I found the guy through plumbing. My family's plumber saw the bottles in our house, and told us about another plumber he knows that avidly digs bottles. We met him, and he told me where the dump is, AND about the North Jersey antique bottle club that I'm now a member of. The moral of the story is, CONNECT with your local diggers! It pays off!

 

[rockbot]

A belated congrats to you Wheel!

 

[Wheelah23]

Now, to find the Glen Ridge bottle... []

I dug today with Rob. The finds were few, but hey, no digging is bad digging. It rained last night and this morning, so the bottom of the dump was a pond. The clay layer is really thick, so all the water just sits in the bottle layer above it, turning it into a swimming pool.

Anyway, here's what I dug today. Rob got a couple slicks (he keeps 'em, whatever), a nice ceramic ointment pot, a ceramic jar just like mine, and a Dundee's.

I got a ceramic preserve jar, or something like that. It's a big one. Maybe marmalade? It looks a bit different than the Dundee's marmalades, though.

 

[Wheelah23]

The lip has some special kind of seal.

 

[Wheelah23]

It has a crack, but I don't think it's damage... I think there was some impurity (a rock maybe) in the batch of clay, and when they fired it, the rock sent a crack through the side. Can't be sure, though.

 

[Wheelah23]

It also says on the side "PATENT", and some numbers of which I can only read a "27".