Privy dug , rare Colorado druggist found

PikesPeakCharlie

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Morning to all ! First my apologies ,I shared this in todays finds & forgot to post it here for ya all to see. This past Monday,"Santa" showed up at my door, took me out hunting. We caught a friend at home ,who owns 2 city lots,,, "go for it guys,have fun ! we found a shallow pit,which produced the rare 1/2oz Central drug co from CC. In 30 years I have only seen 5or6 of these ,including this one,the 1/2 oz is the only known size for this bottle. We also shifted the last foot of the pit and came up with a Indian head and some other trinkets,also detected a buch of trinkets. I have been doing some cleaning on some of the items. The Indian head,is a 1891, and a gold guilted eagle button is starting to show its face. It sure is nice to have "Santa" vist me numerous times through the year and not just on Christmas eve 8-) Oh & I also found a token that I can read "worlds greatest gold camp" & Cripple Creek ,on it,
 

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Bass

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Congratulations again charlie
 

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Good day,Congrats!!

Maybe we need to start digging privys.
 

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Gleaner,here you go, we have found a few of these through the years. I 'm sure it was damaged by fire.
 

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Killer med! can't seem to find it in Prebble's book, it's gotta be rare! Would love to see a closeup of the token, and glad to see that you're still kicking butt!
Carl
 

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Carl it is RARE ! but also known,somehow it got missed when Glen was doing the book,we have never seen them in any size except 1/2oz. I will send ya pics of the token ,it cleaned up great,,, but wasnt quite what I expected ,,,,,,,,,,,
 

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Nice find Pikes, sorry I have been out of the game for awhile but slowly getting back at it. Keep it safe out there brother and again nice find! jgas
 

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I think he is using the "seeing- eye shovel" method. Seriously, sometimes you can locate a privy with a metal detector if there is a lot of iron content towards the top. ...if you want to find privies, get a probe and a tube of ben-gay. After you sink that probe in the ground about 100 times, you'll know what the ben-gay is for
 

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Thanks for all the replies ! JGAS, Good to hear from you ! cant wait to see your next pit ! . KSRD ,I have found one bottle with my metal detector,it was at a WWII traing ground,I picked up the metal lid on it. Finding a privy with the metal detector is very possible ,but very time consuming in the areas I hunt (old mining camps)because of all the iron trash in the ground. Bass ,gave a good description, find a probe and start pokin depressions in the ground,try to find old pictures that show the privys. and keep the icy hot handy !
 

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Carl it is RARE ! but also known,somehow it got missed when Glen was doing the book,we have never seen them in any size except 1/2oz. I will send ya pics of the token ,it cleaned up great,,, but wasnt quite what I expected ,,,,,,,,,,,

Thanks! I'll send them off to Glen, I really need to go and see his collection.
He called me about two minutes after I sent him the photos of the Wigwam and the Boulder Citrate.
That one is really sparking some interest.
Carl
 

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Here it is all cleaned up . Carl,I bet its getting some attention !!!,are the offers coming out of the woodwork.
 

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That is a sweet little bottle, looks great all cleaned up
 

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