Gunsmoke47
Well-Known Member
Hey ya'll, bout a year and a half ago Pitfinder and I were lucky enough to dig 21 USA HOSP DEPT bottles out of a military Indian Wars fort dump. We were of course ecstatic at our good fortune. Haven't found a pit anywhere as good as that again and probably never will. After a lot of reserch on the bottles, I came across a variant of this bottle in our own Mike Russell's "Collectors Guide To Civil War Bottles and Jars." I vowed to buy one if I ever came across one. It is a USA Med'l Dept. bottle made in the same time span as the Hosp Dept. bottles. Mike says it is much more scarce and this is the only one I have ever seen on E-Bay. To bad the only color is Aqua[&o] I bought it anyway.[] Happy Diggin, Kelley