While on my way to a dig site......

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On Monday, I was heading down Broadway, Hannibal's main drag, when I passed by a demo site that got mostly done except the important back end of the property which was encased in 3' thick cement. Built up in the 1860's, there were a few bottles circa 1880's scavenged from under the staircase a few months ago, but that was about it. The facing wall is another building built against the once existing building, now removed. On Monday the crew had finally returned, and having made friends with them a few years ago, I was allowed access and was shown an area where a few toc bottles came out. One was intriguing as I never saw this variant. It was a Majors LEATHER cement bottle. I only knew of the RUBBER cement ones, so I started in scraping the surface area of interest, and they began literally pouring out of the exposed side......

 

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Another shot of the site, privy was just to left of bucket in pic.

 

[lil digger]

Lets see them bottles[]

 

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Shot of the hole. Doesn't do it justice as I had forgotten my camera when I first arrived and it was somewhat collapsed by the time I returned for the onsite pics. It measured out at a whopping (for here) 8'X6'X10'deep. Appears to have never been cleaned out or very little. Found mostly 90's-toc stuff but some high end late throws, all reused for bluing as there was bluing residue in all the older stuff......

 

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A shot of some of the better finds somewhat cleaned up. Got 2 aqua St. Louis Weiss Beer Brew'g Co. bottles with nice gloppy crude tops and an amber Great Western Weiss bottle also from St. Louis.

 

[lil digger]

nice finds!

 

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Closeup shot of the St. Louis Weiss.....

 

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Another view....

 

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Closeup pic of the Great Western.....

 

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Another view.....