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Here are a couple of old bottles

loditomloditom Posts: 684
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I found these in some dirt pile's 2 wekkend's ago.
I believe they are beer's,not sure of age yet but I am checking.
HH,Tom

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  • demodiggerdemodigger Posts: 1,012 ✭
    i posted in the other forum. they could be either 2 beers or 1 wine and 1 beer. probably date to around 1880-1890's. fairly common. most serious bottle diggers don't even keep them, but i do. i figure anything i dig is worth keeping. to iilustrate how common they are, this pic shows how many i dug during 2 nights in a lot a few years ago.
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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    That collection of bottles is impressive... are you finding them when digging metal signals? Or are they giving some sort of audible feedback? Cheers, RickO
  • loditomloditom Posts: 684
    Hey Rick DD also dig's out privys that is where he find's alot of his bottles.

    Hey Brian thank's for that info,these are the first I have ever found and there
    may have been more there but I never made it back before they hauled off
    the dirt.

    Hey how did you get those so clean??

    HH,Tom
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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,530 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Are those all "black" glass bottles?

    Yow.

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  • demodiggerdemodigger Posts: 1,012 ✭
    some of the glass is dark brown, black and dark green.

    i cleaned the insides using a fish tank bristle brush and some fish tank gravel. made a solution of simple green and water.

    these bottles came from an area where the ground was moist and contained little iron. this next pic is from the famous coleman project. remember how that ground was full of iron and who knows what. some serious diggers actually have a bottle tumbler. i think they use plastic pellets for the polish.
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  • davbecdavbec Posts: 321 ✭✭
    When I was a young boy my father had a huge bottle collection. He tried selling them at our yard sale and nobody purchased them. So we took them to the landfill and he made sure I broke every single bottle, that way nobody could redig them and get them for free. He was alittle upset that day.
  • bigtime36bigtime36 Posts: 961 ✭✭✭✭
    Any of you guys that look for bottles out east there let me know if you come by any Larkin bottles from Buffalo NY. My family was the owner of the Larkin Soap Co. and im trying to get old bottles where ever I can find them. And also those are some quality bottles you found there.

    Thanks,

    Jim

    Collect raw morgans, walkers, mercs, SLQ, barber q. Looking at getting into earlier date coins pre 1900s.

  • marymmarym Posts: 713 ✭
    There is a set of six Larkin Soap Co. pieces being auctioned on Ebay for the next five days.
    Be Still and Know
  • loditomloditom Posts: 684
    Awesome bottle's Brian and man to I remember the Coleman siteimage

    Man I wish I could have hunted that site everyday!!I remember all the IRON,with all the hinges and nails I could have built quite a few door's and gate's with all the one's I foundimage

    I'll try that method with the bottle's I all ready have simple green as I use that to clean some of my find's
    with.

    HH,Tom
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  • DockwalliperDockwalliper Posts: 1,169 ✭✭✭
    Its too bad the Larkin soap Bldg. was torn down. A masterpiece by Frank Lloyd Wright.
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    Are you decended from Larkin, Hubbard or Martin?
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    That was a very impressive building... surprised it was not designated for historical preservation. Cheers, RickO
  • bigtime36bigtime36 Posts: 961 ✭✭✭✭
    Im a decendent from the Larkins, My great grandmother was a Larkin and actually worked there when she was growing up, she passed away last year at 97. I found an old Larkin catalog from the 20's last year and gave it to my Grandma for christmas, and i found that they made a lot of china also with buffalo marked on it. So if you find anything let me know please.

    Jim

    Collect raw morgans, walkers, mercs, SLQ, barber q. Looking at getting into earlier date coins pre 1900s.

  • demodiggerdemodigger Posts: 1,012 ✭
    its really weird when i drive past the coleman area now. its become a shopping center. i can't help but think how thousands of coins and tokens still lay buried in there.

    sjwarren uses CLR on his bottles. just gotta remember to use gloves.
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