NJKLAGT
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- Oct 18, 2014
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Hey everyone, you've been finding some great stuff lately!
I said I was gonna post a while ago and I didn't. But, here we are. I'll put up some other finds in a separate thread, different story.
So this is undoubtedly one of my favourite digs. This jug was in a small cave under the roots of a massive old walnut tree. The soil had been washed out from under the tree by the water coming down off a cornfield and into the creek. Over time more soil accumulated at the receiving end and sealed the top side, leaving a tunnel and cave with only the one bottom entrance. I couldn't see anything inside when I first discovered the spot, so I crawled in with a flashlight when I returned and discovered that the ceiling of the cave was embedded with bottles and jars (sorry for the bad pics). Straight up Indiana Jones'd, such a thrill. There were some fruit jars and art deco whiskeys and other things, and then this jug. It was tangled up inside the large roots of the tree. I got a bunch of dirt in my eyes trying to get this thing out - it's not very often that you're looking straight up while digging!
The mouth and handle were broken off clean in one piece, but there was one tiny piece missing (ugh, like always) where the handle meets the body, so I gave it one of my patented drywall compound repairs and for the first time tried to colour match it with some paint so that we could admire its full form. Because the body wasn't shattered, this is the first jug I've found that resonates and plays like an instrument when you blow into it, haha, if that means anything. It's got a beautiful drippy brown slip glaze and was probably made before the turn of the century. Just how old it is, and where it was made, I'm not sure. You jug guys got any ideas?
I also took home my fourth Terrace Hill Dairy variant, some amethyst stuff for colour, a Bel Boy soda from Hamilton, some Crown jars and lids, a nice blown hexagonal vial with the stopper stuck inside (it contains some kind of crystals, maybe smelling salts?), and my first key! Not pictured are a big green cork top cider jug, a Perfect Seal fruit jar, and some generic blown meds.
Thanks for looking everybody, and keep the awesome stuff coming!
NJK
I said I was gonna post a while ago and I didn't. But, here we are. I'll put up some other finds in a separate thread, different story.
So this is undoubtedly one of my favourite digs. This jug was in a small cave under the roots of a massive old walnut tree. The soil had been washed out from under the tree by the water coming down off a cornfield and into the creek. Over time more soil accumulated at the receiving end and sealed the top side, leaving a tunnel and cave with only the one bottom entrance. I couldn't see anything inside when I first discovered the spot, so I crawled in with a flashlight when I returned and discovered that the ceiling of the cave was embedded with bottles and jars (sorry for the bad pics). Straight up Indiana Jones'd, such a thrill. There were some fruit jars and art deco whiskeys and other things, and then this jug. It was tangled up inside the large roots of the tree. I got a bunch of dirt in my eyes trying to get this thing out - it's not very often that you're looking straight up while digging!
The mouth and handle were broken off clean in one piece, but there was one tiny piece missing (ugh, like always) where the handle meets the body, so I gave it one of my patented drywall compound repairs and for the first time tried to colour match it with some paint so that we could admire its full form. Because the body wasn't shattered, this is the first jug I've found that resonates and plays like an instrument when you blow into it, haha, if that means anything. It's got a beautiful drippy brown slip glaze and was probably made before the turn of the century. Just how old it is, and where it was made, I'm not sure. You jug guys got any ideas?
I also took home my fourth Terrace Hill Dairy variant, some amethyst stuff for colour, a Bel Boy soda from Hamilton, some Crown jars and lids, a nice blown hexagonal vial with the stopper stuck inside (it contains some kind of crystals, maybe smelling salts?), and my first key! Not pictured are a big green cork top cider jug, a Perfect Seal fruit jar, and some generic blown meds.
Thanks for looking everybody, and keep the awesome stuff coming!
NJK
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