Bottles Found Downtown Toronto Excavation for new Delta Hotel

[arob]

Hey Treasure Hunters. I like to keep an eye big excavation sites in my hometown and when I know they are digging history I always pop around and make a real nuisance of myself, waving hundred dollar bills in the air...

http://dumpdiggers.blogspot.com/2011/08/bottles-found-under-southcore-financial.html"]Antique Glass Bottles Found Under Southcore Financial Centre & Delta Hotel Toronto, The Story of Rees' Wharf[/URL]

The article details the life and times of Dr William Rees in Toronto Ontario

But of course my true focus is on the antique glass bottles that were liberated from the ground by the professional excavators,





This tan Wm Robertson ginger beer found at new home almost immediately on the new lake shore on a floating Toronto bed and breakfast facility which is also a bottle and pottery museum of note with interesting display cases showcasing yesterday's relics.

In present condition, if all of the remaining bottles were sold as one lot on eBay tomorrow they would fetch a couple thousand dollars - combined value with the blue Pilgrims soda and Commercial Ink Co bottles being most notable attractions.

HOWEVER the one exception is this crusty beer bottle,

this piece is key to the history of Hornby Ontario and there's a story here - its a puzzle how a Hornby beer bottle ended up down here at the base of Toronto, or perhaps testament to the quality and distribution of Brayn Bros Brewery in the early 1870s.

[jgas]

Now thats what I'm talking about. A guy who loves the history of his area. Those are some killer finds for sure. You know the beer bottles make it all over the place. We have found them several hundred miles from their breweries. Cool stuff, keep it coming jgas

[SaintOne]

ive been reading your blog a since a while back .. nice story's good to see an update again

i added you a while back as follower http://metaaldetectie.blogspot.com/

[arob]

Hey SaintOne
Even though I cannot read a word of your blog I managed to figure out how to follow you and leave a comment. Your blog is cool I can tell by the cool pictures.

[SaintOne]

Hey SaintOne
Even though I cannot read a word of your blog I managed to figure out how to follow you and leave a comment. Your blog is cool I can tell by the cool pictures.

thanks for being a follower your my 2nd hehe

i tried to apply for the dumpdiggers forum as well to share some pics but some how i couldnt register (about 3 months back)

you can use google translate to get the dutch language to be translated in somthing you actually understand

see this link : http://translate.google.com/translat...logspot.com%2F

i am highlighting some bottles with the history i can find using the internet and old newspapers ... (still have few bottles to go )

[SODABOTTLEBOB]

arob ~

Great presentation and pictures. How'z about a straight-on close up of the (cleaned) Pilgrim bottle? I'd like to save a pic of it to my photo file. In fact, pictures of all the bottles (cleaned up) would be even better.

Thanks.

SBB