The So Obvious Dig.

[Oldihtractor]

That pic came off of ebay from a local salem collector that sold one on ebay a while back...

The neck on the cattell's is very slender compaired to all my other mineral waters..

ORIGINAL: KBbottles

I think they are cursed!!  Are those some variations in color Andy?    Here's the example on bottle den too...

http://bottleden.com/APS2/images/856.jpg

Such a shame but hey there's hope!  Did you recover any heads or were they all sacrificed to the dippers?

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[RICKJJ59W]

Uniformly headless is a shame and accurate -- those are beautiful mineral waters and I still covet finding an intact one out of the ground.  Here are a few headless horsemen that we got out of a shallow, woodlined pit in Salem right on Broadway a couple of years ago.  There were about a dozen more green and cobalt examples smashed to pieces.  Also typical is that the only intact soda was from Philadelphia -- here a nice example of a "Riddle" with a script "R".  Nice digs and cool historic town.

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wow! did they bite the tops off of those things or what! Real cool pottery.I got to gey my azz out and get some permissions []

 

[redbeardrelics]

I have read accounts of the glasshouse workers in Baltimore during the 1880' and 90's deliberately breaking any soda or beer bottles they consumed. It was reported that they believed this would help ensure they would recieve more orders to manufacture more bottles, and hence have more job security.
Something to consider, especially if these bottles were found in a neighborhood where glass house workers or their relatives may have lived?

 

[Oldihtractor]

Would be a good thought. The large find in the later pictures came from a hotel tavern type est. The one I dug came from what may have ben a wealthy families home.. but for sure there were many glass house workers in this town. The mysteries of the privy finds continue

 

[Staunton Dan]

ORIGINAL: redbeardrelics

I have read accounts of the glasshouse workers in Baltimore during the 1880' and 90's deliberately breaking any soda or beer bottles they consumed. It was reported that they believed this would help ensure they would recieve more orders to manufacture more bottles, and hence have more job security.
Something to consider, especially if these bottles were found in a neighborhood where glass house workers or their relatives may have lived?

I don't quite understand this reasoning. Whether the tops were broken off or they thrown down the privy whole would still mean that the bottles would be out of circulation, thus giving the bottle blowers more job security as it was related.

 

[THE BADGER]

I BELIEVE THE HONEY DIPPERS WOULD BRING THEM BACK INTO CIRCULATION OR US,HOPEFULLY US .

 

[THE BADGER]

GREAT STUFF YOU GUYS DUG,BUNCH OF NICE PIECES AND THOSE CATTELS ARE NICE TOO.I KEEP MY BROKEN SODAS ALSO AND SHARDS ALSO.THERE IS A GUY NEAR HERE THAT WANTS TO BUY ALL MY SHARDS FOR SOME KIND OF ART HOBBY HE DOES. BADGER

 

[RICKJJ59W]

ORIGINAL: redbeardrelics

I have read accounts of the glasshouse workers in Baltimore during the 1880' and 90's deliberately breaking any soda or beer bottles they consumed. It was reported that they believed this would help ensure they would recieve more orders to manufacture more bottles, and hence have more job security.
Something to consider, especially if these bottles were found in a neighborhood where glass house workers or their relatives may have lived?

Im glad they didn't have that stupid superstition around here[8D]

 

[rockbot]

Nice. I need to go dig something...[]

 

[downeastdigger]

Wow! What a great dig! We're dyin up north here waiting for the snow to melt. Continued good luck !