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  1. #1
    us
    Oct 2008
    sioux city ,iowa
    Minelab Explorer SE Pro, Minelab E-trac
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    Crock bottle help

    This is my first post in this section, I normally do detecting but the weather has been too wet to detect. As I was scouting a place to hunt the other day I spotted a bottle near a sight where they are digging the creek bank out for a new bridge. After looking around for a while I found a few more but this one is the most interesting. I would like to know how old it is and if it is a common bottle or what. It has no markings on it. This was found in the older part of our town, one of the glass bottles (Mellins Food Co.) dates to 1860 to 1880. Thanks for looking.
    Deano
    Crock bottle 2nd from right
    There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life that he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure-Mark Twain

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    us
    Apr 2010
    south central Kansas
    E-Trac,F75ltd,Explorer Se,G2
    44

    Re: Crock bottle help

    Very cool bottle Glad I got to meet you in Kansas,had a good time chatting with you and Dulac.Wish I was up there digging those bottles with ya.HH

  3. #3
    us
    Feb 2009
    Northcentral Florida
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    Re: Crock bottle help

    [quote=deano ]
    This is my first post in this section, I normally do detecting but the weather has been too wet to detect. As I was scouting a place to hunt the other day I spotted a bottle near a sight where they are digging the creek bank out for a new bridge. After looking around for a while I found a few more but this one is the most interesting. I would like to know how old it is and if it is a common bottle or what. It has no markings on it. This was found in the older part of our town, one of the glass bottles (Mellins Food Co.) dates to 1860 to 1880. Thanks for looking.
    Deano
    Crock bottle 2nd from right
    It is a stoneware ale bottle, almost certainly made in Scotland or England. They are abundant. They date from the 1860s to TOC, but vast numbers were imported late in the 19th century.

    Some Northeast collectors mistakenly refer to these unmarked bottles as "ginger beer bottles"; but, if one of these bottles ever contained ginger beer, it was a secondary use after the ale was consumed.

    Here's a description of the stoneware bottles found on the Bertrand, a steamship that sank on the Missouri River in 1865:

    Crock bottle help-bertrandaletext.jpgCrock bottle help-bertrandaleimage.jpg
    “A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.”
    --Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle) in "The Sign of Four"

 

 

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