Your Best Heartbreaker

[bottlekid76]

A couple of samples from our upcoming book... they also come like this too []

~Tim

 

[DruggistBottles]

Two hard to find Chicago Bitters

WALLACE'S TONIC / STOMACH BITTERS // // GEO. POWELL & Co / CHICAGO ILL

C. H. SWAINS // BOURBON // BITTERS

 

[DruggistBottles]

Success to Railroad flask - cracked and missing top

 

[DruggistBottles]

A beautiful... but broken lamp

 

[DruggistBottles]

She's a real heart breaker!

 

[The Can Kid]

I don't dig very much, so my heartbreakers aren't really heartbreakers. they are low-value finds. These three still stick in my head, though:

1. I dug a shard to a pink BALL MASON jar in my first and only privy. It was the face of the jar, marked with BALL. Not realizing what it was at first, I threw it in a wheelbarrow with all the other shards I found there. I later found myself fratically digging for it when I realized it was pink!

2. Finding an odd GATORADE bottle on my Hillside Dump. I'd never see a glass Gatorade bottle before, so I (stupidly) decided to throw it down the hill, where it would hopefully land on the beach with my other finds. As soon as it left my hands, I regretted throwing it because I knew it would land on my other finds and shatter them. It didn't. Instead, it flew onto a boulder and exploded. I couldn't even find the cap.

3. Digging the front panel of a crude, possibly pontiled, FELLOWS CHEMISTS ST. JOSEPH. Again, this one came from the Hillside.

 

[cacarpetbagger]

Finally got around to reading this thread, really enjoyed it. Amazing stuff, truly what keeps you going back. Thought I would add a few.

 

[cacarpetbagger]

Found this one thirty plus years after the first one. Maybe if I live another thirty years I'll find a whole one.

 

[cacarpetbagger]

Got invited as a guest digger on an east coast trip. We found this amazing piece of glass. Unfortunately some assembly was required.

 

[cacarpetbagger]

Another shot of this one.