Your Best Heartbreaker

[baltbottles]

I decided to pull out a box of broken torpedoes from the closet and take some pics.

Row 1 is an unembossed in a deep yellow green then a pale green COUGHLAN / BALTo fragment then adarker yellow Green COUGHLAN / BALTo missing its top.

Row 2 Another dark yellow gren unembossed torpedo then a KEACH / BALT in sort of a pinkish apricot then a BOYD / BALT in a deep olive amber

Row 3 an unembossed torpedo in a dark apple green A KEACH / BALT in a dark aqua then a BOYD / BALT in a medium olive green

Row 4 another dark apple green unembossed torpedo then an Open pontiled CHAPMAN'S / SODA in aqua with a rolled lip

Row 5 is a lighter apple green unembossed torpedo then a BOYD / BALT in a yellow topaz color next is a GARDNER / & BROWN in a dark apple green

Row 6 is an umembossed torpedo in a dark aqua and a KEACK / BALT in an emerald green.

Row 7 is the tops of 3 torpedoes in a dark apple green a light apple green and a Pure gingerale yellow color.

I hope everyone enjoys
Chris

 

[justanolddigger]

Our area wasn't settled until the late 1860's, so was extremely surprised to dig this flask, almost made it!! The color varies throughout, hard to get a pic of, from yellow olive to greenish amber.
Bill

 

[justanolddigger]

For some reason, these constitution bitters turn up around the Battle Creek MI area, we have dug shards in shades that vary from purple to this lemon yellow.
Bill

 

[BittersMax]

Okay, here's a real tear jerker and most likely the top Western bottle. Circa 1858-59 open pontil large cathedral pickle bottle embossed on three sides: "BAKER & CUTTING / GLASS & PICKLE MFRS. / SAN FRANCISCO" in a bright yellow green color. We dug this unit about six months ago from a 12' deep privy.
I've dug these busted in colors ranging from golden amber to pale aqua. To date there's only one known intact example that is pale aqua.

 

[RICKJJ59W]

I might have posted this on this thread before,here it is again.It is still a heart breaker even though we found all the Pisces.
There is a whole one in the ground ......(somewhere).

 

[pigeonman]

baltbottles,they were HRL mineral water from salem nj

 

[deepbluedigger]

411 broken cobalt blue sodas dating from the mid 1870s. All from one site me and my digging buddy found a couple of years ago. Before then there were only about 6 or 8 whole examples of these bottles known, in two sizes. They are a patent stopper that was only used in this color by two companies in the whole of the UK.

 

[deepbluedigger]

... but we were lucky enough to find some whole ones, so we can't complain. It was an old dump site that seemed to have been used by the drinks factory from about 1872 - 1879. We'd been looking for the site for about 15 years.

 

[RICKJJ59W]

Wow! all this in a dump.Did you find any other bottles in that dump?

 

[kranked003]

411 broken cobalt blue sodas dating from the mid 1870s. All from one site me and my digging buddy found a couple of years ago. Before then there were only about 6 or 8 whole examples of these bottles known, in two sizes. They are a patent stopper that was only used in this color by two companies in the whole of the UK.

did you turn those into any profits? what are they worth broken?