Today's Dig...kinda

[Robby Raccoon]

The bigger pieces, more surface area, are pushed to the top. Awesome.

 

[iggyworf]

Yeah thats incredible. I so want to be able to find some that easy. I don't collect inks but that one is very cool.

 

[RICKJJ59W]

We have found iron pontiled green Easton squats in that same way.I once found a cobalt blue soda under a board on an open lot.Its all "right place right time".

 

[rfellmanjr]

we went back tonight... We dug down about 4 ft and hit construction debris from the 1970 when the houses were built so now we are really confused. It was pushing 95 degree's so we decided to look on the surface again. We found a lot of mixed stuff...a few blobs and squats, milks, meds and stoneware. I don't know much about the stone ware so I am not sure if it is old...I think the big one is a 6 gallon, then a brown one, a white one w a S on it and a Llewellyn Chestnut St which I am pretty sure it was pharm in Phila..I don't think that milk bottle is old either.. is it a repro ?We will go back and we will keep digging the hole. It is all overgrown so it is a little difficult..

 

[CanadianBottles]

Yeah, that milk is a modern fantasy piece. The little white one might be as well. Sort of looks like a salt or sugar dish with that "S" on it. The other three are genuine. So you've found someone's collection buried in the woods. The question now is how the hell did that get there?

 

[cobaltbot]

It would appear that way? Is there other trash mixed in with the bottles? I have found squats and a pontil on the surface but that's a rare thing these days.

 

[Robby Raccoon]

Perhaps, someone made the collector throw-out his collection and he put it there to come back for it later, or so another would one day find it?

 

[digger dun]

Perhaps, someone made the collector throw-out his collection and he put it there to come back for it later, or so another would one day find it?

It's funny you say that, because I once came upon about 6 milk crates worth of blob tops, milks, and whiskeys mixed in with current trash in the weeds along a shore line in Queens. The age range of everything together spanned from the 1860s to the 1910s. For the life of me I couldn't figure out how to read this deposit, as it made no sense. Then, after posting here about it I was informed that it was the overflow collection of a local digger, and he had stashed them all there because they were really only 10-20 dollar bottles, he lived in a small apartment, and he dealt in higher quality fare.

 

[Robby Raccoon]

Awesome. Good find---but did you keep them or put them back?

 

[digger dun]

I offered to give them back, but he wasn't interested. they had been there in the weeds a few years already apparently.