Down in the dump

[RustyRelics]

I just got back on Sunday from a month long stay in Pennsylvania. I had the good fortune of finding a dump that dated from about 1900 to 1935 give or take a few years, right beside the house I was staying at, in a brushy gully filled with all sorts of vegetation.



I really owe it to my dad for finding the dump, because he actually poked around in the gully several years ago and didn't bother to dig there. I decided that I would give it my best shot at digging.




After I arrived, I dug in the rain for an hour and found lots of shards, an embossed Vaseline jar, and a California Fig Syrup bottle before I called it quits fo the day. Over the next couple of weeks, I would be digging for hours at a time. I didn't take a lot of dig pics because I was busy digging, lol!




A California Fig Syrup bottle seeing the light of day.




I thought this med was pretty cool, and I can't believe it came out whole. I surprised myself as to how reckless I was with my shovel sometimes.




I was pretty heartbroken by this bottle. It was on my list of top ten bottles to find in the area.



The hole looks deceptively small in this picture, it just has a lot of dirt in it that collapsed in a cave in. At the bottom of this particular section, I found lots of neat beer bottles.




The finished (not quite, there's still more digging to do when I get back) "crater" measures about 30ft. x 8ft. x 3ft.

 

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[erfranks]

Nice saves!!

 

[RustyRelics]

The bringbacks. I found close to 200 un-enbossed clear glass bottles, so I left most of them behind, keeping only the old an interesting stuff.




Shoemaker and Busch / Wholesale Druggists / Philadelphia PA




Bumsteads / Worm / Syrup / Standard / Since / 1855 / Cavoornees / MD / Philadelphia

This is one of my favorites for sure!





This is my first poison! This would have held Tincture of Iodine.





Silver Pine Healing Oil? A quack medicine if I ever heard one!




This is without a doubt, my favorite bottle of the dig! It took me thee hours to get it out from what seemed to be an impenetrable layer of rust. I was so happy when it Came out whole, and without a scratch! LAXOL / A.J. White / New York

 

[RustyRelics]

I found scores of Mason Jar lids, one of them being this one, which I thought was beautiful.




And here we have ourselves a mystery. I found this coin when I was trying to remove a bottle from the dirt. It is a Q,ing Dynasty coin, and dates from the 1730s to 1750s, my first 1700s coin! But why was it in the dump?




Beer bottles that were all on the floor of the crater. Breweries include the Independent Brewing Co. of Pittsburgh (two from the 1920s and one from the 1910s) Queeno Brewing Company/ Cumberland MD, Blatz from Milwaukee, and Reinhard Bottling Co. Cumberland MD.

 

[RustyRelics]

I didn't find these until the last few days of the dig. All are Rogers Bros. Silverplate.





Creepy dolls. The big one is marked NIPPON. Nippon was a Japanese company that hit it big in WWI because the worlds leading dollmakers, France and Germany, were too busy lobbing shells to make dolls at the time.





These are shining stars as well. I am in shock they survived. They were between rocks, in rust layers, I hit them with my shovel, and they don't look like they spent a day in the ground! My favorite has to be the small ROOT jar. ROOT Glass Co. was notorious for making brittle and poor quality glass, so for it to have survived this long underground without a scratch is a miracle.

 

[islamoradamark]

Wow thats one heck of a group photo of all those bottles thanks for the exelnt photos hats off to you

 

[villagenut]

If I find a local druggist bottle with a broken finish or neck, I look for the rest of it and restore the pieces. But thats just me, local history lover. What a great bunch of finds Rusty!

 

[RustyRelics]

If I find a local druggist bottle with a broken finish or neck, I look for the rest of it and restore the pieces. But thats just me, local history lover. What a great bunch of finds Rusty!

The back of the bottle was gone too. If it was just the neck or mouth gone, I would have kept it.

 

[Rookster]

RR
The two mystery looking coin looking things look like Tax tokens. Back in the old days the states would issue these to most everyone to pay the tax on goods. I’ve found several around old home sites both from Mississippi and Alabama.

 

[RustyRelics]

RR
The two mystery looking coin looking things look like Tax tokens. Back in the old days the states would issue these to most everyone to pay the tax on goods. I’ve found several around old home sites both from Mississippi and Alabama.

Did you look at the writing on the coin?

 

[bill from lachine]

Rusty,

Nice selection of bottles you did well.....just a heads up about your Chinese cash coins even though they were never accepted as currency in the U.S. or Canada the Chinese communities used them as a method of exchange among themselves back in the day.

 

[pepperj]

Very nice selection of glass Rusty.
The Silver Pine Oil would be similar to Pine tar (veterinary grade). So I looked it up and this was the Ad for the company.

 

[RustyRelics]

Very nice selection of glass Rusty.
The Silver Pine Oil would be similar to Pine tar (veterinary grade). So I looked it up and this was the Ad for the company.

Holy smokes I don't think Silver Pine Healing Oil can cure that blood loss!

 

[scruggs]

You hit some nice ones!

 

[WannaDig3687]

Excellent dig, Rusty! You recovered some beauties for sure! Congrats!

 

[Red-Coat]

Creepy dolls. The big one is marked NIPPON. Nippon was a Japanese company that hit it big in WWI because the worlds leading dollmakers, France and Germany, were too busy lobbing shells to make dolls at the time.

Cool bunch of finds.

Just for info, “Nippon” was not a doll manufacturer. It’s the archaic name used by Japanese people for the country we call Japan and literally means “where the sun rises” (ie in the far east). Dozens of manufacturers marked their dolls (and other goods) with the word subsequent to the requirement for country of origin marking on imported goods from the McKinley Tariff Act of 1890. The term “Nippon” was accepted until 1921 when the US was ruled that, since it was a foreign word, it didn’t meet the requirement that the marking should be “in English” and changed to “Japan” thereafter.

If your doll has other marks besides “Nippon” then you might find the actual manufacturer at the link below. The largest supplier to America was the New York based import house “Morimura Brothers”, using a Nippon mark from about 1915 until the business transferred to the Langfelder, Homma & Hayward company in 1922, but then using a “Japan” mark.

https://www.dollreference.com/japan-japanese-doll-makers.html

 

[Red-Coat]

And here we have ourselves a mystery. I found this coin when I was trying to remove a bottle from the dirt. It is a Q,ing Dynasty coin, and dates from the 1730s to 1750s, my first 1700s coin! But why was it in the dump?

RR
The two mystery looking coin looking things look like Tax tokens. Back in the old days the states would issue these to most everyone to pay the tax on goods. I?ve found several around old home sites both from Mississippi and Alabama.

As 'RustyRelics' says, it?s a Chinese 1 cash coin from the Qing dynasty (both sides of one coin shown).

In fact it?s Qianlong (Ch'ien-lung) Emperor? known after his death by the temple name Gaozong (Kao Tsung) and from between 1736-1795. Boo Ciowan (Board of Revenue) mint in Beijing.