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  1. #1
    us
    Nov 2011
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    First time bottle diggers

    My 12 year old son and I have just picked this up as a hobby, we are already avid hikers and geocachers and this gives us another reason to get outside. He originally found a small dump in our hometown of Pitman, NJ and brought some of the bottles home and has been trying to get me involved for some time. It wasn't until I was working in a customer's crawl space (old coal storage) that I came across my first bottle (Dill's Balm of Life). Since then, we have had our eyes out for some locations to explore.

    I found an abandoned house that was for sale, and when I explored the property, I found an outhouse, and fifty feet further into the woods, I found a huge dump. My son was in Florida with his grandparents, so I was on my own. I stopped by one morning before work and just grabbed some bottles that were laying on top. I found some old Cokes, 7UPs, a Smirnoff flask, a Rolling Rock and some other unknown bottles. We'll be back when we have better equiptment and more time. Any information and advice would be appreciated. Thanks.

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  2. #2
    us
    Sep 2010
    Woodland Park NJ
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    Re: First time bottle diggers

    As a fellow Jerseyite I wish you good luck...I'm in North Jersey and collect Paterson NJ bottles and the surrounding area, thee best site on the web to learn about bottle digging, finding, cleaning and collecting along with every other thing you'll ever need to know about bottles is ABN....

    Here is the link and good luck.....Jim

    http://www.antique-bottles.net/forum/default.asp
    Looking for PATERSON NJ BOTTLES!!!!

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    us
    Apr 2008
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    Re: First time bottle diggers

    Nice start to a very crazy and addicting hobby. Get yourself a spring steel probe and get to probing for the outhouse pits. You will soon be pulling up 1800's bottles, or earlier! Goodluck and never dig alone okay...just a little reminder that digging can get precarious at times! jgas
    JGAS

 

 

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