Out Metal Detecting and Found A Trash Dump

[southernbandit]

Hi Everyone,
I was out this week end metal detecting and got a signal and found the belt buckle
and a bunch of glass. So I started digging and found all these bottles.
The one I would like to know about is the one that says what looks like GIBBS.
I found a bunch of these but some of them don't have the name on them.
Can anyone give any ideas what it was Soda, or beer or what ever, and a date they
were made. I couldn't find anything today on them.
Thank You
Southernbandit

 

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[Gypsy Heart]

Those are some excellent bottles! Great finds. I think Gibbs had something to do with like Barber shop Colognes

 

[aa battery]

Wow thats great group of bottles

 

[fossis]

Nice Finds, Fossis........................

 

[TreasureTales]

Holy Crap!! Those are some great bottle and the belt buckle is very nice and ornate. I'd much rather find that type of stuff than a gold ring or a rollex watch. WTG. Did you think about doing some screening at the dump site in hopes of finding old buttons, marbles, coins, etc,? I'd sure give it some thought because trying to swing a detector over a dump is usually an exercise in futility due to the trash. Screening is very labor intensive, but the potential results can be awesome. Right now you've done very well and I'm so drooling just looking at your stuff.

 

[SHERMANVILLE ILLINOIS]

SB,

congrat on finding that dump.

Very nice group of bottles.

Thanks for posting.

have a good un............................

 

[root]

Nice haul my friend!!

The Gibbs bottles resemble a Heinz ketchup bottle I dug here some years ago. The grouping at left are mostly extract bottles and the aqua one lying on it's side is a sample med. Can you post the embossing for us?? At any rate, most if not all are T.O.C. through the teens.

HH,

root

 

[root]

Check that.....

The Gibbs bottle resembles a Joseph Campbell(of Campbell soup fame) bottle that I dug.

 

[Montana Jim]

WOW!!!!!

AWESOME digs... man those are great pictures too, jeez...

 

[TreasureTales]

Nice haul my friend!!

At any rate, most if not all are T.O.C. through the teens.
HH,

root

[emphasis added]

For those who may not know, T.O.C means Turn of the Century, so root is saying your bottles date from about 1900 -1919 or thereabouts. Cool.

 

[southernbandit]

Thanks for all the replies everyone.
To TreasurTales, I have not thought about screening this area but you
sure made it sound very intriguing so I will do some this week end and
let you know how things went.
To Root the one bottle is a sample bottle and it says:
SAMPLE BOTTLE, DR. KILMERS, SWAMP ROOT KIDNEY REMEDY,
BINGHAMTON, NY. I’m at work now or I would just post another pic.
And to Montana Jim, I like to use my digital camera and take several pictures
and then go back and pick the best and clearest ones to post so you can see
the most detail. You guy’s are GREAT!
I still can’t find the GIBBS bottle under anything, but I’m still looking.
Bandit

 

[Montana Jim]

And to Montana Jim, I like to use my digital camera and take several pictures
and then go back and pick the best and clearest ones to post so you can see
the most detail.

It shows that you take the time to get the best pictures... great work and composition. I take several also, pick the best and post those. And dang them bottles are pretty.

 

[Gypsy Heart]

In 1916, the Gibbs Preserving Company Corporation of Baltimore, Maryland was granted registration of a trademark on “Bull Head,” a brand name it had used since 1883. Among the products to which the name applied was “tomato catsup with tabasco sauce.”

There was a regional version put out by Brooks Tomato Products Co. of Collinsville, Ill. Here’s a depiction of a bottle from a 1916 newspaper ad:

In the mid-1940s, the McIlhenny Company threated suit for infringement against the G.S. Suppiger Company of St. Louis, which then owned the Brooks line. To avoid litigation costs, Suppiger changed the name of “Brooks Tabasco Flavor Catsup” to “Brooks Old Original Tangy Catsup.” (Re-dubbed “Brooks Rich & Tangy Ketchup,” it’s now manufactured by Birds Eye, and marketed primarily in the mid-west.)

http://www.metnews.com/articles/2004/reminiscing100704.htm

 

[southernbandit]

Way to go Gypsyheart! You Nailed It!
Some of them I found just didn’t have the raised glass letters.
But they would have looked just like that if they had a label.
Root said it looked like a ketchup bottle, Thanks Root you were right.
You guys are Great.
Thank You,
Bandit

 

[Skrimpy]

Nice haul my friend!!

At any rate, most if not all are T.O.C. through the teens.
HH,

root

[emphasis added]

For those who may not know, T.O.C means Turn of the Century, so root is saying your bottles date from about 1900 -1919 or thereabouts. Cool.

Yes looks like early 1900s to me although i am a little newer to bottles. What I would do is go back to that dump and get just about dead center and dig straight down until you hit hardpan. If I found nothing older or something that looked like something a collector would want (milk, embossed, or cobalt) I would try a few more places in this dump and then find another dump...but that's just me. Some people like the look of the early 1900s bottles. I would like to start a collection of mid 1800s whiskes, waters, sodas, and beers, but haven't found the spot to dig em yet.

 

[jopher]

Great digs SB.Very cool buckle.Love that Kilmers sampler.Do the whiskey or inkwells have any scripting.....joe

 

[whitesid]

nice bottles!

 

[Functional]

An eBay store has one for $19.95 plus shipping:
RARE GIBBS BOTTLE BLOWN MOLD EMBOSSED:
http://images.google.ca/imgres?imgu...bbs+dairy&gbv=2&svnum=100&hl=en&safe=off&sa=G
If you find any bottle caps in that pile, as they may be worth some money.

The milk bottles are worth $28.00
http://collectibles.search-desc.eba...rgnZQ2d1QQsaslcZ2QQsbrftogZ1QQsofocusZunknown

Google and eBay can be good sources for research if you pick the right decriptive words and phrases.

Oh! Good find by the way.

F.

 

[chong2]

lets see if you get the bottle bug i caught it after a single find in the desert

 

[LONE GUNMAN]

DIG YOUNG MAN DIG....We spend alot of time digging here in nevada, some of our hole are over six feet deep and we find everything frome silver barber dimes to old bottles dating in the teens......and to top it off it is a hell of alot of fun...
use a 1/4 inch screen so you get every thing....we get alot of beeds and marbles that way.
good luck
lone gunman